RE: Why Homesteading? My Hopes and How They've Changed
All very good reasons!
I've wanted to set up a homestead for years but here in the UK I've concluded I can acheieve all of those mutual aims by just buying a small town house and ethically trading for the rest!
Said smalll town house cost £170K... a stead with a wreck/ self build project would cost at least £250K (in a shit area on a main road)... which means my mortgage (I have quite a small one) is £600 month rather than £900!
I'm actually now thinking of renting out said house and finding some collective permie project to go help out on... somewhere warm!
Also, do you think you can rebel with a mortgage? It's not exactly a word whixh brings "born to be wild' to mind, more 'wild hogs'!
My number one finance goal atm is to save enough to pay mine off. At 1.99% interest it doesn't make sense to actually pay it off yet but id like the capacity to be able to do so!
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Yeah, the mortgage is a bummer to say the least lol Rebel with a cause... And a mortgage. 😂
BUT, I'm busting my ass to pay it off early. Wife and I are getting out of debt and are on track to pay off everything except the mortgage and student loans by the end of this year. That'll free up an extra $1000 a month (!!!!!!) that'll go towards principal payments on the mortgage. A very oversimplified version of my dream is to pay off everything and have a badass garden and retire, selling extra produce to pay for any taxes that they'd shoot me for not paying.
Great idea using a farmers market. And as far as finding permies to help, you might check in with @makinstuff for the website I heard him talk about with @sagescrub. It was exactly what you're talking about.
That's basically what i did when I first took out a mortgage about 6 years ago - put it on a 15 year term, and it's working out nicely!
I do fancy a garden but it's just something I've had to compromise on temporarily. I'm into growing my blog atm, it's still growing something!
I'll check out those links, cheers!