643 dollars each month.

I must have 643 dollars each month to live in a city. That is what I pay for my apartment and some small things.

I do not have what I do not need. I do not want what I do not need.

People think I am lazy because I do not want to work for somone. But I actually do work I just do not produce junk. I earn my money by altering clothes and grinding wild grains into flower that I sell.

I have furniture and all the things most people have. But it is old or stuff that I have made for myself. I do not have a television but the computer is a gift from one of my customers.

I also do not have a bank account or credit cards and I do not owe money to anyone. But I also do not have an automobile but my feet work very well and I'm not in a hurry to go any place. I do not think this bank problems will affect me.

I also do not have a health card or a birth certificate. But the government has tried many times to make me have these things. They have sent me papers with my mother's family name and my father's family name. But I have never chosen a first name as they want me to do and I have never signed the papers and given them back.

I do not think I am missing not nothing in my life. I have friends and a lover and an animal companion that decided to live with me.

There as a time 10 years ago when I belived that I had to fight to fix things. But I was a angry person still mad at what the police did to my family and friends.

I think I am just writting this to tell people that there is still a good life without junk.

Think to yourself, who care if the bankers drink champagne. Why do you believe that their champagne is better than your glass of water? The water is better for your health.

Who cares if they eat at rich resturants and have cars very expensives. If you can make your own food it is a pleasure and you can feel snow or grass with your feet.

Do not be mad and do not fight. Just live your life very simple and ignore the greedy people. It actually works very well.

 

I live just as good on $400.00 a month as I did on $1000.00..

might add that out of that $1000.00../ $119.00 comes out for cable. BYE cable..

 

Good for you oh Hippy-Chick
- Many wish they had your commitment to the ideals of ethical conscience "Live the Dream"

 

yep i did away with cable too. they make us think we need these things, that cost us an arm an a leg. sounds like we all could learn from hippychick. hell makin your kids drink from the garden hose is prob. child abuse now. i like this pc, but i,d be just fine with my plants, n a sandwich. it seemed more simpler when i was young 30 years ago. sept. 11 everything went up in price. and jobs are harder to come by.

wish it was simple again.

 

But it can be simple again for you. Just learn to live simple.

 

well i work for mennoites at a lumber mill, they live simple lives. but socitey i think makes me feel like hell for gettin the cable shut off, because i have a 5 and 13 year old, but your right thank you.

 

I should of stayed closer the amish.. but civilization is creaping in on them cause the bread, milk and eggs are cheaper..

 

Sounds like you're content with your life, hells yeah. Keep it up!

 

Very Eloquently Stated Hippy Chick

Hip hip hooo -rayy!

less is always more in my opinion.

 

pretty cool. something I have, myself, come to learn.

 

When I was a little girl and living in Amatol. We had 15 children like me who are borned there and 11 adults. We all of us lived together in a big house the adults built and we all slept in the same room. Adults on the one side and the children on the other.

After the government and the police came to take us away. I spent 3 years not seeing anyone in my family or friends. I was mis in a modern home and with other children. I had become addicted to the junk.

Children are the easiest to become addicted to these things like cable.

Today I am adult and I am not addicted to junk. I think of how happy I was when I was given back to my parents and I think of 3 years later when myself and the other children went back to Amatol. It was magique ! Some of us had become adults but we played like children and laughed.

Junk does not make people happy. It only creates feelings of greed and dependancy.


My rent is 540 dollars and Internet is 60 dollars. I live simple and it works well.

 

Reminds me of a song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFl0nlHaWa4"]Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man - YouTube

 

Hippy chick.. that is cool. Are you bills included in your rent? For me, they are not, so my monthly bills are a bit higher. Do you spend a lot of time outside? I finally have "space" to be outside without police bothering me. If you don't mind me asking, about altering clothes, how that works for you? I'm curious and more inspired.
Do you garden by chance? I'm also curious about how you grew up. Seems like you loved it. I don't hear too many people so happy about how they grew up around me.
Yesterday, I spent as much time as I could (I'm currently 19 weeks pregnant) putting "Junk" in boxes to donate. I want to be free of all that. I don't want to pass on recently learned trait to the next generation.

 

i don't live nearly as simply as hippy chick, but i dig the message.

my rent is 820 + electric
and i have like 10 channels for $11
videogames
a car that i paid cash for
two bicycles
a computer obviously, and internet that is included in my rent (it's crappy internet though)

i get a stipend from my school of $26,000/year (minus taxes of course)
most everyone i go to school with complains of having no money, or how we get paid so little. they probably have student loans i guess. i feel very comfortable with what i have, and don't desire much.

 

i only for work for what I need and want..and only work when and if I want to

it drives me insane when people ask why i dont have a "regular" job or a nice house

some people will never understand

 

I express better in inuit or french.
Please have patient with my english.
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If my bills were not included in my rent then I would not have electricity and we would not be having this discussion. MDR I have lived without it and I do not need it.

Amatol was a community that my parents helped create and it was located aproximately 250km more north of Umiujaq, Québec. There were 15 children and 11 adults. My father was an anthropologist and my mother a early childhood education teacher. Most of the adults were also similarly educated or skilled.

It was a very rural community. We had one big house that the adults constructed using the natural materials available and its design was based on the viking long houses. The big room is where we all slept and we did not have problems with nudity or sex. Nothing was hidden and this is what caused the police to attack the community. They destroyed everything including burned the house.

5 years ago all of us had been cleared from the condemnations of the police. There was no child abuse and we were not a cult. The court and the police have given formal apology but the government continues to harras us. Of all us children of Amatol only 2 have accepted birth certificates. Myself I have no birth certificate, no identification and nothing to say who I am or where I have come from.

My clothing altering work is how I earn a little bit of money. I have many many skils and this is just one of them. I did not think I had many skills but I noticed how unskilled everyone else appear to be.

What I do is write little annonces and put them in store windows and other places. People contact me to either fix their clothes or make something for them. It is mostly old people that ask me for my services or people looking to make a wedding. For to contact me is why I have Internet. It is my telephone. If people could just learn to come to my door or stop me on the street I would not need it either.

I do not have a place to garden. But I forage for food and I walk 2 times each month into the more savage areas. I come home with 2 or 3 baskets of food. I use to have fished too but the fish has been making me sick muchly recently. I have had to stop.

Sometimes I go to the indien reservation. But I have to use my thumb to get there. My mother is a half Inuit and a half Mohawk and I have many friends there. When I am there I teach the young children how to use arrows and how to throw a spear to hunt. I do not eat much meat but this is where I get it.

That is all of me.

 

I only work for what I need too, and wouldn't want it any other way. Me and my wife both left home early, so were grew used to living with little. My wife stays home to raise our kids the way we want them raised. No daycares trying to teach our kids there version of right and wrong. We haven’t had cable for about 10 years now, no internet at home, grow what ever food we can, make everything we can, restore furniture for the home so we don't have to buy new, shop for clothes at thrift, sell the kids old clothes to consignment. I am currently trying to find a job in the city I live to so I can sell my car and stop paying $5000.00 a year to greedy insurance companies (my driving record is less than perfect...). You hear so many people laying on their death beds talking about how they worked their life’s away and it wasn't worth it, they wished they spent more time with their family. I refuse to be one of them.

 

This is the foundation of it is it not ? Time !

Go play with the children and sit in the sun. Let those that want to fight kill each other. We do not need to be part of that because Life is beautiful !

 

I get a lot more pissed of champagne than beer, and if you buy the cheap stuff. it works out cheaper, and its a lot more fun type of drunk


As low as $6 for a cheap bottle of champers vs $25 for half a case of beer that does he same thing but you end up peeing 3 times an hour for the next 4 hours.

And vintage cheese and crackers and salami when i'm wine drunk mmmmmm yumm. Which might sound a bit snootier, but ends up working out cheaper than beer and pizza and you dont end up looking like Seth Rogen afterwards

 

It cost both more and less in the sticks...almost need a car...though I do know people that get by without, rents are usually cheaper, may or may not be as easy to find make do(ugh,,,$).
the travel situation you deal with though....more power to you....geez the goverment has made all of us outlaws anyways...it's just who they enforce the specific law against.
I do it both more expensive (Business overhead and Taxes) - cheaper if those are left out.

Blessings

Namaste