She threw me off with the “hauling water”, bit. Homesteading is expensive if you don’t want to do the work. I grew up on a farm. Well water, chickens, grew our veggies, had cows, pigs, sold crops and animals (even pecans from our trees) to make income, drank cows milk fresh from the cow, our chickens/cows/pigs and even goats were food too, hunted deer, Grandma had us eating squirrels and rabbits, fished, we harvested peanut hay to feed our horse (I did as it was mine), Dad had a wood burning stove installed in the house, etc. Yes we had electricity and my Dad also worked but the point is, we had to work to survive and were close to living off the grid. You have to work hard to live off the grid, but it’s not expensive if you put in the work. Back in the days hard work was the normal.
Ditto here. Except no peanuts. Logged timber and trapped/cured animal hides in winter for extra money at the fur auction. Up at dawn to bed at dusk, rain snow or shine. We all worked hard from 4/5 years old. You don't work, you don't eat. Best life ever. Translated into 7 figure hard working entrepreneurs as adults. Funny how easy success is if you wake up and Just Do It!
By the time I came along, being the last of five kids, my parents were doing pretty well. I never knew hard times. But my dad still worked from 8 in the morning till 11 at night six days a week, and sometime much later. I worked for him for two or three years and had the same schedule. Sometimes I would watch Star Trek that came on at 7 and be a little late returning after supper and he would shake his head at me.
But early on they had tough times, and did not even know where the next meal was coming from, because my dad had operation that laid him up for a year. When he was sick he promised God that if he could ever work again, he would not stop lol. I think this is why he worked so hard, and loved ever hour of it. But he was sitting quietly in a back pew every Sunday.
She threw me off with the “hauling water”, bit. Homesteading is expensive if you don’t want to do the work. I grew up on a farm. Well water, chickens, grew our veggies, had cows, pigs, sold crops and animals (even pecans from our trees) to make income, drank cows milk fresh from the cow, our chickens/cows/pigs and even goats were food too, hunted deer, Grandma had us eating squirrels and rabbits, fished, we harvested peanut hay to feed our horse (I did as it was mine), Dad had a wood burning stove installed in the house, etc. Yes we had electricity and my Dad also worked but the point is, we had to work to survive and were close to living off the grid. You have to work hard to live off the grid, but it’s not expensive if you put in the work. Back in the days hard work was the normal.
Exactly > . Back in the days hard work was the normal.
Still today for alot of us.
Ditto here. Except no peanuts. Logged timber and trapped/cured animal hides in winter for extra money at the fur auction. Up at dawn to bed at dusk, rain snow or shine. We all worked hard from 4/5 years old. You don't work, you don't eat. Best life ever. Translated into 7 figure hard working entrepreneurs as adults. Funny how easy success is if you wake up and Just Do It!
I don't have any experience in this. But, I believe he was saying the expensive part is getting established.
By the time I came along, being the last of five kids, my parents were doing pretty well. I never knew hard times. But my dad still worked from 8 in the morning till 11 at night six days a week, and sometime much later. I worked for him for two or three years and had the same schedule. Sometimes I would watch Star Trek that came on at 7 and be a little late returning after supper and he would shake his head at me.
But early on they had tough times, and did not even know where the next meal was coming from, because my dad had operation that laid him up for a year. When he was sick he promised God that if he could ever work again, he would not stop lol. I think this is why he worked so hard, and loved ever hour of it. But he was sitting quietly in a back pew every Sunday.