WHERE ON EARTH ARE WE GOING
That is what I feel like. I finally sold my condo. It took 10 months, but it is in the country so was to be expected. I am planning to stay in the country, but I want elbow room. I want a yard to plant a garden, I want trees, I want a fire pit, I want, I want, I want. I have been looking, but in my quest to be more fiscally responsible, I don't want to go to the top of my price range. Again with the wants - I want to travel, I want to go camping in a motor home, I want to take the grands away on trips, I want to be able to have enough to live until 90. I may not live that long, but what if I do? With the markets the way they are, with the world constantly changing, who knows how much we will truly need. I know a lot of people who planned for taking out 4% per year and then have the government pension to help. But now from what I have been reading, it is now 2% they want us to take out and the government pension plan, old age pension and the supplement may not be there until all the boomers are gone. So, if I plan to have enough to live till 90, then if I live to 80 or 85 I won't have to be too concerned......I hope. I don't think anyone knows for sure, look at the great depression, look at the late seventies/early eighties, the early nineties, then of course now. I am so happy that we grew up very poor. When you do with out a lot of things and you go through life with that mentality, you, in the end, have been doing all the things like having a garden, canning, freezing and drying food that the younger people are struggling to learn. Also learning to shop at thrift stores or stores that are more economical and learning how to fix things around the "old homestead" instead of just going and buying new. I am so proud of the way these young people want to learn the "old" ways and then put a new spin on them.
My daughter has always called me the "herbal tea hippie" and I have always been proud of that moniker. Yesterday to treat myself after selling my house I had a Starbuck's coffee. The gal who was serving me had the most healthy head of hair. When I commented on it she said "My mom was a hippie, so we ate very healthy". I was glad to hear that and I could also hear in her voice it was something she was proud of and continued into her own life. I think it is wonderful when I see younger people who want to have a garden, who want to have chickens in their back yard, who only buy at the thrift store and who are living out their down to earth life.
I know there is always the other side of the coin that says - Where would the world be if people didn't buy new things. I realize that the world is like that, but for myself I believe that lifestyle has contributed to the world problems. Everyone wants more, bigger, better. To me yes, we need new, but I think we don't need the so much throw away. I think that if everyone started buying less, putting down the technology and commit to communicate more face-to-face, our world would evolve into something where people would be able to slow down, communicate more and through doing things in a less harried way, there would be less errors in the mass production of food, medicines etc. Society would be able to breathe.
Anyway, this was not what I was going to post, but I think it has been inside of me for awhile and it helps to put down my thoughts.
I have so much going on right now and there is way more to come this summer. I feel almost like one of those semis that moves the wide loads. I think I should wear a sign saying "Wide Load". For those that know me, it wouldn't be too far off the mark from my physical appearance, so for those, take it and run. I gladly await to see what family jokes will come of this and at what point someone will present me with the Wide Load sign. LOL
It is good to laugh -at ourselves, our circumstances, and life. God made us with the ability to laugh so lets do it.
God is Good All the Time!
Jean
That is what I feel like. I finally sold my condo. It took 10 months, but it is in the country so was to be expected. I am planning to stay in the country, but I want elbow room. I want a yard to plant a garden, I want trees, I want a fire pit, I want, I want, I want. I have been looking, but in my quest to be more fiscally responsible, I don't want to go to the top of my price range. Again with the wants - I want to travel, I want to go camping in a motor home, I want to take the grands away on trips, I want to be able to have enough to live until 90. I may not live that long, but what if I do? With the markets the way they are, with the world constantly changing, who knows how much we will truly need. I know a lot of people who planned for taking out 4% per year and then have the government pension to help. But now from what I have been reading, it is now 2% they want us to take out and the government pension plan, old age pension and the supplement may not be there until all the boomers are gone. So, if I plan to have enough to live till 90, then if I live to 80 or 85 I won't have to be too concerned......I hope. I don't think anyone knows for sure, look at the great depression, look at the late seventies/early eighties, the early nineties, then of course now. I am so happy that we grew up very poor. When you do with out a lot of things and you go through life with that mentality, you, in the end, have been doing all the things like having a garden, canning, freezing and drying food that the younger people are struggling to learn. Also learning to shop at thrift stores or stores that are more economical and learning how to fix things around the "old homestead" instead of just going and buying new. I am so proud of the way these young people want to learn the "old" ways and then put a new spin on them.
My daughter has always called me the "herbal tea hippie" and I have always been proud of that moniker. Yesterday to treat myself after selling my house I had a Starbuck's coffee. The gal who was serving me had the most healthy head of hair. When I commented on it she said "My mom was a hippie, so we ate very healthy". I was glad to hear that and I could also hear in her voice it was something she was proud of and continued into her own life. I think it is wonderful when I see younger people who want to have a garden, who want to have chickens in their back yard, who only buy at the thrift store and who are living out their down to earth life.
I know there is always the other side of the coin that says - Where would the world be if people didn't buy new things. I realize that the world is like that, but for myself I believe that lifestyle has contributed to the world problems. Everyone wants more, bigger, better. To me yes, we need new, but I think we don't need the so much throw away. I think that if everyone started buying less, putting down the technology and commit to communicate more face-to-face, our world would evolve into something where people would be able to slow down, communicate more and through doing things in a less harried way, there would be less errors in the mass production of food, medicines etc. Society would be able to breathe.
Anyway, this was not what I was going to post, but I think it has been inside of me for awhile and it helps to put down my thoughts.
I have so much going on right now and there is way more to come this summer. I feel almost like one of those semis that moves the wide loads. I think I should wear a sign saying "Wide Load". For those that know me, it wouldn't be too far off the mark from my physical appearance, so for those, take it and run. I gladly await to see what family jokes will come of this and at what point someone will present me with the Wide Load sign. LOL
It is good to laugh -at ourselves, our circumstances, and life. God made us with the ability to laugh so lets do it.
God is Good All the Time!
Jean
