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 4^th 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.

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