Possum Living Part 1 of 3

A short documentary of Dolly Freed, author of the 1970s cult classic Possum Living.

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[donnerbrandpear]

Dolly ended up being an aerospace engineer for NASA. "Dropping out" didn't hurt her one bit. She was obviously too sharp for normal school.

[hummusbomb]

rednecks! hahah but seriously, this is a way to live that is TRULY GREEN! not that stupid democrat al gore way

[jduplechin]

I can grow lettuce on my iPhone.

[myleadmail]

Never mind you that $1,500 in the 70's is more like $8,000 now due to inflation. She wasn't living on nothing, she was living on less. Without a house payment, car payments, and credit card payments most of us could live on $8,000 a yr if we grew some of our food and didn't drive much. It's not that hard at all without debt. Debt is the great enemy to a simpler life, yet sadly young people usually realize this far too late.

[gregry111]

@donnerbrandpear If this was such a great life why did she finally get a regular job?

[gregry111]

When I read the name Freed I knew you were from Pa. That's where we all originated in this country

[DFDYoung]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[MrBobflipper]

for those comenting on the turtle have any of you ever cleaned one before? i catch and eat plenty of snappers every summer and even after ive managed to cut the head off( no small feat in its own right) it will continue to try and get away and claw me they dont quit just cause they are missing a head and a few limbs.

[MrRobertGulabo]

@RubberWilbur there it is again... both parties are equally corrupt, is the message. No. One is more corrupt than the other. So today, who is on the side of all this privatization (code for corporations taking over your life)? You bet it's Republicans. And with some Conservative leaning dems with them. It is not equal, ok? Republicans are more pro-corporation than Democrats.

[suddenlyitsobvious]

@MrRobertGulabo

Thank you. I think the shooting off the turtle in the head is staged for the camera and definitely not a credible way of proceeding for a guy supposedly living off and in tune with nature. Because he's probably never done it before, he missed.

[RubberWilbur]

@MrRobertGulabo The Democrats get paid just as much from the corporations as the Republicans.