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View Poll Results: What Amount Would It Take To Get You Out Of Debt?
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$0-$20,000
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$21,000-$50,000
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$51,000-$100,000
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12-31-2010, 11:30 AM
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Re: What Amount Would It Take To Get You Out Of De
If I ever get my dream life, it will be a small log home deep in the woods. Hopefully in some mountains.
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12-31-2010, 11:31 AM
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Re: What Amount Would It Take To Get You Out Of De
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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
Yes ma'am. And about 1/2 of my land is wooded so only 1/2 is cleared. It's one of those blessings that is so amazing you don't have to remind yourself to be thankful. I am thankful daily for this place.
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I'd say so! An absolute blessing.
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12-31-2010, 11:32 AM
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Re: What Amount Would It Take To Get You Out Of De
Pretty neat D4T.
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12-31-2010, 11:37 AM
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Re: What Amount Would It Take To Get You Out Of De
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Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*
If I ever get my dream life, it will be a small log home deep in the woods. Hopefully in some mountains.
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Well you are a rare woman indeed. The women folk usually opt for the big city. The deeper in the woods the better for me. I am a few miles out of this little town. Not many neighbors. It's nice and quiet.
Thankfully I married another of those rare women who love simple country living. She feeds the animals, gathers the eggs, I till and plant the garden but she does much of the harvesting in the mornings.
As Phillips, Craig & Dean once sang... This is the life. 
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12-31-2010, 11:38 AM
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Still Figuring It Out.
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Re: What Amount Would It Take To Get You Out Of De
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Pretty neat D4T.
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Thanks. I am appreciative for what God has given us. I have to watch myself because I tend to ramble on and show pics of my house and land like some people do of their kids.
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12-31-2010, 11:49 AM
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Re: What Amount Would It Take To Get You Out Of De
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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
Well you are a rare woman indeed. The women folk usually opt for the big city. The deeper in the woods the better for me. I am a few miles out of this little town. Not many neighbors. It's nice and quiet.
Thankfully I married another of those rare women who love simple country living. She feeds the animals, gathers the eggs, I till and plant the garden but she does much of the harvesting in the mornings.
As Phillips, Craig & Dean once sang... This is the life. |
I've always preferred the country. We live in the big city, but on the outskirts. We have an acre, so it's not too bad. I could NOT live in a close neighborhood, I'm too claustrophobic.  The farther out in the country, the better I like it.
We're planning to get chickens again. Used to have them. I love, love, love the simple life. Have no desire for a fancy house, or a lot of possessions.
I'm like you, get me started and I could wax eloquent on the subject.
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12-31-2010, 11:54 AM
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Re: What Amount Would It Take To Get You Out Of De
There is a lot to be said for the simple life. I hope to one day to downsize, sell most everthing and hit the road full time.
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12-31-2010, 12:04 PM
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Re: What Amount Would It Take To Get You Out Of De
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A stick built house CAN be a brick house and it CAN be a wood frame house. The term just refers to the fact that it isn't a mobile or manufactured home but a home built on site with standard construction materials.
My house is not a brick home. It is a wood frame home.
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Nice place for the money for sure! Did you have much fixing up to do or was it move in ready?
Our house was a repo too.
You have a HUGE garden! I have a garden too but not that big!
I, too, love our place and am so thankful to be here!
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12-31-2010, 12:06 PM
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Re: What Amount Would It Take To Get You Out Of De
I like living where we live, but don't care for the chickens and goats. Except when there babies.
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12-31-2010, 12:26 PM
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Still Figuring It Out.
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Re: What Amount Would It Take To Get You Out Of De
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Originally Posted by ILG
Nice place for the money for sure! Did you have much fixing up to do or was it move in ready?
Our house was a repo too.
You have a HUGE garden! I have a garden too but not that big!
I, too, love our place and am so thankful to be here!
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It was move in ready except for the standard things... new paint... we took up the linoleum in the kitchen and put down nylon tile. (Come to think of it we did overlay the kitchen floor with OSB as it was a little spongy)
From there we just continue to make it our own...
We converted the garage into a 4th bedroom.
We converted the washroom into a 2nd full bath.
We put in a 16' x 16' deck out back.
Chicken coop
20' x 40' "Goat" pen. (We don't have goats at the moment)
We tore out some of the bedroom walls and went back with insulation & new sheetrock. (The upper (older) part of the house had no insulation in the walls)
Fenced in the back yard.
Put in a 36' x 36' garden
Ceramic tile in the original bath.
etc, etc, etc
My projects for this winter & early spring are to...
Finish running the pipes from the new bath to the septic.
I have some boards to replace.
I want to plant a number of fruit & nut trees.
I need to finish barbed wiring the back pasture in so we can buy another calf.
I told my son that when you go to peoples house and they have this amazing farm set up... I've learned that this happens one weekend at a time.
Last edited by Digging4Truth; 12-31-2010 at 12:37 PM.
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