Just Simply Had Enough…
Every year your mortgage payment
keeps increasing? Your pay seems to never be enough? Car payments and other
daily un-wanted expenses just seem to keep building up? Do you feel like you’re
slaving away at a job all day to make ends meet, and not really enjoying life?
This is our story. We seem to live paycheck to paycheck and
never really get to spend any time with our family or friends. We bought a home and loved it. But two years
later the mortgage payment was now $400 more than when we started and my pay
has not increased to match it. So my wife and I have, “Just Simply Had
Enough.” We sought out some owner
financed land and found an outstanding 48+/- acre piece of property In Maine.
We have both lived off grid in the past and are very well aware what a hard
day’s work is. We both agree that
leaving a better footprint on our world is the only true way to live. We can
grow our own food, we can build our own homes, we can barter with others and we
can live stress free and start to really love life. We will have cut our $1400 a month mortgage
to a minor $475 a month and that is only until our land is paid off. After that it is simply taxes and insurance
we need to worry about. Those will amount to about $75 to $125 a month..
All seems a bit drastic and a
bit spur of the moment? Maybe, but both
of us have done a great deal of research on how to make all of this happen.
Farming, both animals and plant growth are in our vocabulary. The plan is to no
longer require my full time job in about 3 or 4 years’ time. So this blog is
going to be a virtual run down of how our life is going to be. Ups and downs, videos and pictures, will be
posted onto here to help show others what can be possible. Also I am sure a little bit of what not to
do.
I recently have become an
Ordained Minister for the Universal Life Church and would love to build a
thriving community of off grid living right on our property. By living off grid
this is not going to mean that you cannot have power or showers or
bathrooms. It simply means that we will
only be living off what we can be provided by Nature. Solar or wind power will be used in many of
the camps we will be building. We have
big plans and want others with the same mind set to come join us someday.
Because I stated I am a Minister
I want to make sure I am very clear… I believe in something, whether it is God,
Allah, Buddha or Shangri-La I don’t know.
What we believe is freedom to believe.
All that matters is that you are a kind person. You help others without expecting to get help
back. You treat nature with respect and try to minimize your footprint for the
next generation. Love your family. For us family does not mean blood related,
family is those people you love in your heart every day, some you see every day
others you may not. Don’t carry hate in
your heart because it hinders happiness.
So today, (April 4th
2014), is the start of a long processes for us to become free of burden and
hindrances on our happiness. I am
planning on being “work” free in a max of five years in order to work more on
our land and spend more quality time with our family. I know I will be working just as hard at home
as I do at my current job; however I will be working to better myself and my
family every day and not someone else.
Our goal is to start an off grid community of like-minded people who
wish to come together to live a better lifestyle not only for our planet but
for our bodies as well. We plan on
setting up cabins for “family” to live and barter between each other to live
without the stresses of everyday life.
Raise animals together, plant together, believe how you wish to believe
and truly love your life.
We hope you enjoy our journey.
~~Jeff L.
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