Possum Living Part 2 of 3

[mrcoconutdick]

I own my place free and clear. Unfortunately, that means little since I owe thousands a year in property taxes, mostly to pay for other people's kids to go to school. As real unemployment continues to go up it will be interesting to see what happens. I guess the plan is to place liens on the property when people like me when we can no longer pay. Interestingly, banks that own so many foreclosed properties are allowed to defer these taxes passing them onto whoever buys a foreclosed property.

[wheatcandle]

2:04-2:48 Any questions?

[jackrkilby]

Grind that wheet girl!

[MrRobertGulabo]

They are truly free. Because a lot of people think they're free, but really, you aren't. If you are truly free, you can take off anytime to go visit loves ones... take a break whenever you like... enjoy your life whenever you like. Instead, you are bound by rules and the system... and the only vacation you get is those measly 2 weeks at the end of each year. And when you get it, you usually are so stressed out that you come out of it tired and exhausted.

[festyxfi]

More men would live like this if more women would join them while doing it. Men end up doing whatever it takes to attract a mate...that means money and comfort and stuff. Sorry ladies, it's the truth. If you want change, start responding to guys that value frugality and simple living.

[callahan9119]

@festyxfi

Actually she went on to work for NASA and is against this now, it turns out her father was abusively domineering and this was about her doing what he wanted.

[lolavex]

@festyxfi That goes both ways, honestly. Women end up doing whatever it takes to attract a mate and that means spending a lot of money to improve their looks.

[MrRobertGulabo]

@festyxfi Truth!!!

[wpc1013]

@festyxfi The problem is that many men who want to live like this also want women who would be subservient to them.

[seekerbiswas]

Oh Wow...

[slicknicknirvana]

I would live like this if only i knew how.

[Markohoppis]

where is the part with the moonshine?

[ThanksgivingWalk]

I love the way the daugher thinks. She's so grounded, resourceful, and methodical.

Very enjoyable and inspirational for anyone looking to "get out of the rat race."

Thanks so much for sharing this with us.

[whyeatedpies]

this isn't about lifestyle choices. the girl's disposition is like her father. they both are very contented and simple people whereas the mother is the opposite. i am not going to say who is bad and who is right it's just that these differences exist all over the world. by letting her drop out, dolly made constructive use of her time reading, writing and then becoming an engineer. she probably isn't the type of person who has superb networking and social skills. smart but simple.

[SpockOfRock]

Her poor mother never understood that the most important thing is life is freedom, not money...

I'll say one thing for these people, they never got ripped off by Bernie Madoff. They never got "downsized". They don't care about your stock market and your greed.  Your economy will rise and fall and these people will pass their days in happiness never knowing of your grief. And they won't have their lives shortened by the breakneck pace of the modern world.

[plutoplatters]

@SpockOfRock  so correct...sooooooooo correct ! exactly.

[TragicCanyon]

Agrarian farming didn't start until the Fertile Crescent my friend 10k years old at BEST. We have been hunter gatherers not farmers for most of our history.Our species is approx 2 million years old as a hominid.Take 10 thousand years from 2 million. It takes hundreds of thousands of years to make a genetic adaptation in a dietary and nutritional sense. WE ARE HUNTERS by NATURE!!!!!!! Period!!!!!!!!!!

[TragicCanyon]

This isn't odd...what we have done with technology is the oddity...this is how humans have lived for millions of years. Hunting and gathering. Period.

[makapav]

@TragicCanyon Not everyone has hunted. A lot of the tropical was purely agrarian - hunting has always been more primitive.

[sEweron]

@TragicCanyon

Humans, and millions of years? In one sentence? You sir, should visit a school, really.

[TragicCanyon]

@sEweron -----The earliest human species, Homo habilis, beginning some 2.5 million years ago probably lived primarily on scavenging, not actual hunting. Early humans in the Lower Paleolithic lived in mixed habitats which allowed them to collect seafood, eggs, nuts, and fruits besides scavenging. Rather than killing large animals themselves for meat, they used carcasses of large animals killed by other predators or carcasses from animals that died by natural causes.[3]

[sEweron]

@TragicCanyon

Oh, that is a misunderstanding there, cause in my world humans are called Homo sapiens and date back to around 200k years. I'd not call Homo habilis a human. I guess definition of human is problematic, so I stand corrected on the millions, but in the form "humans and their predecessors lived this way...". Also, If you look at it, for the last few thousands of years humans actually did have jobs, used money and built cities, it's a social, not technology thing.

[TragicCanyon]

@TragicCanyon

...and in our busy little techno lives we destroyed the planet that gave birth to us and created our own mass extinction!!!!! A planet that is 4.5 BILLION years old with species that are hundreds of millions years old!!!!!! Give it up and go back to Wendy's and American Idol where you belong asswipe!!!!!!!!