Simple Stress Free Lifestyle

Merry Christmas one and all. im camping this chrissy by the lake behind fields of flowers. What a blast hanging in the outdoors for a change. It's great. Hope you're all having fun enjoying a natural Xmas.

 

same to you puddy

 

Thanks Puddy, and where are you finding these flowers in December? Sounds like paradise to me!

 

hotel/motels are good for free ice too. as much as you need.

 

Shout out to my pal Bernie ! Hope all is well bro!

 

Hey Brother Kenny,

Things are slow and steady out here in the south west. I have been looking for a job, but not to hard. Can't believe most places don't want to really talk to me since I have no oil field experience for the most part. No big deal. I went and applied for a local driving job with one of those over the road companies here in Odessa, TX. Monday through Friday, maybe a Saturday in a blue moon and I am home every night. What a deal. Just what I need to keep plugging away on this business I am setting up. Weather has been good and so far, it is looking good on this job.

Hope all is well and good over in the big GA! Take care Bro!

Bernie unk:

 

What are you doing for money? That's always an issue.

 

its not glamping, its home. not a vacation cabin, but a permanent year round residence, of small form factor, in a non-urban setting.
its not something i have, but it is what i grew up in.
(my dad worked for the railroad, in the stations and switch towers, to enable us to live, in a relatively rural, near wilderness, setting,
but not without his being constantly stressed, to maintain his employment, for us to be able to do so)

too much of what people are calling stress free, seems to require a rather great deal of stressful indenture to buy into.
and the reason it does being laws that make land a thing that has to be owned.

there is no shortage of inexpensive ways to construct durable and comfortable shelter. there never has been.
but the idea of land having to be owned, makes doing so prohibitive for most ordinary people.

if you inherit a piece of land, or have one given to you, or have rights to build someplace where you don't have to, then great,
a reasonably frugal person can build just living on ssi, or the equivalent, between the hardware store on their pension,
with what people throw away and what nature gives for free, but unless you live someplace where you're free to build,
you're sunk. at least that's been my experience, and why i live in a city, in the cheapest hovel that meets my modest needs,
for a legal residence with access to public transportation, in which i can cook, sleep, build miniatures, dream my own dreams,
and access the internet.

now the idea of a motor vechicle enclosing enough space to be able to lay down full length to sleep comfortably and have all you need to cook and stay warm,
this i've only been able to do a coulple of times, and those relatively briefly, (one time i did own an actual chevy panel truck, and another a boat just big enough)
because again, without land there are problems. you can't park any one place for too long without having to pay someone, somehow, something,
to be allowed to do so, and if the alternative is to move on and keep moving on, then there's the cost to keep said vehicle functional (even just to be able to get groceries).
and cost again equals indenture and that equals NOT stress free.

there's really just no, and i so wish there was, such a thing as a stress free way to live, in most places, including supposedly 'free' places,
in today's 'monetized' world. i have lived nearly all of my life around the idea of avoiding stress. the problem with this is most (all by some definitions),
of my life has been lived in what is called poverty. the word means nothing, but never having all of the tools or materials you need to do something does.

and there's really only two options in life, stress or poverty, and even at that, acceptence either makes no guarantee of avoiding the other.
even if you were born into money, or have the education and skill set to be insufficient demand to never have difficulty remaining employed,
being able to move freely from one employment, or means of income to another, you're still never really entirely without stress.

but if you do by some myricale, have clear title to a piece of land, or live where land doesn't have to be owned, that's the one clear advantage in reducing it.