May 2011
14 posts
“Quit listening to them. According to them, we got married too young. We had kids too soon. We did a crazy thing by buying a house we’d never seen in a place we’d never been. And we, we who made all the wrong choices and broke all the rules, are having the most exciting, adventurous life that we could ever have imagined imagining. We are not special or different. We are just like you. All we did is exactly what you and anyone else can do- we let our hope be bigger than our fear.”
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House Unseen. Life Unscripted.: Always wonder. Never worry.
more inspiration from the family who bought a $27,000 house over the internet
April 2011
22 posts
Cozy Chicks: Read This if You Dare! (You will get the willies) →
cozychicksblog.com
Worst secondhand furniture story ever.
Worse than bedbugs (to me, anyway.)
Feeding Generation Y →
blog.e-mealz.com
“Here is one lifelong, profound principle I was raised on, one that is worth noting – a good snapshot of the generational contrast:
Never ask for a candy bar in the grocery store line.
Not an option, no way, no how. Candy bars cost a mere quarter and my Mom would say NO every time. No room in her grocery budget and I have zero memory of her ever relenting. (…) I never felt deprived or even out of the ordinary. In my mind, we had all we needed, lots of love, food, and life flowing out of our home.”
“In some cases this round of price hikes on everything from cereal and steak to fresh veggies and bread—and even the flour that can usually be bought cheaply to make it— will be temporary. But over the long term the systems that have provided most Americans with a diversity, quantity and quality of foods envied by the rest of the world are not going to be as reliable as they were.”
—Garden as if your life depended on it, because it will | Food Freedom
“I can see him glancing at the loads of laundry as I’m washing them when the people he just spent the last 2 weeks with have no more than 2 or 3 changes of clothes. Many even less. One grandmother has worn the exact same outfit, every time he’s visited, for the past 3 years. It’s not just reverse culture shock. I’m used to that now. Something has shifted in him. The excesses of our lifestyle, which is still frugal by north American standards grate on him.”
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She Laughs at the Days: Home is Shifting
Perspective.
