RE: Thoughts About the First Year on the Homestead🏡
Thanks deanlogic,your comments are much appreciated. If we can do it anyone really can, we are both closer to 60 then 50! It's difficult and you must be certain, we rented a 400 sq ft cabin for a year after selling to see if we could do it. We had a hot plate, microwave, fridge, a bed, a chair, no indoor sink. Used a outdoor farm sink to wash dishes. There was a toilet, shower and a tiny RV indoor sink in the bathroom, we added a tiny hot water heater. You could spin around and hope the hot water lasted 5 mins. Haha! We had to add a portable AC in that cabin, its hot in Florida. It was difficult at times especially for me. We had a storage unit in town that we paired stuff down for a year. A pod to clear out at the property in 2 months as we settled into our new home. But we did it and here we are - free.
Well, could you have done it when you were young and had babies?
That's the big unknown.
I, just by chance, clicked on a video the other day and it was a Tiny Home couple who gave it up a few months after their child was born . What worked for them as adults, was not going to work for them as parents.
Homeschooling, while there are plenty of resources, is not for everyone. Not everyone can wear all the hates required to be a off-grid homesteader. Not that it is impossible, it is just harder for some than others.
That is the truth, we are empty nesters. So we do have the advantage of not having that worry kids at this point in our lives. 🐓