Having small beasts of burdin.. is not a luxury. Many countries it is their only means of getting around..or any kind of help.
Just ours get wormed and such because we can afford it.
If I could...I would get around and use mine more. They really like having a job.
I think it is harder for people that living in cities. They can't grow their own food..if something goes south.
4 years DH was bounced around in jobs.. all because they were sending that work overseas. Only thing that kept us going was because I had Sheep, goats, chickens, ducks, a big kitchen garden and Orchard with 25 fruit trees. If we did not have that...we would of starved and it is no joke. We ate the withers and sold a lot of my breeding stock..more than I would have other wise.
We managed to hold onto the house,, I had to sell my truck. Being out of the Navy we did not have much at the time because it was easier to move...and the Navy always broke everything.
We had only basic phone..local. No long distance. Was cheaper to buy a card.
Had to have basic internet because all jobs want you to apply online now a days.
No eletric was used..except for the Frig. No lights were used. We never went out to eat...rarely went anywhere. Did have a year pass for the Tacoma Zoo I had to let laps.
Oh.. we could strip things down again,, in some ways I would not mind. But we are not set up as well at this farm yet.
The young Fruit trees need another 4 to 5 years before they can feed us.. and the garden is just clay..we are amending it but it takes time to make soil that produces well.
I could feed the horses,, we have enough land.
But I would not want to give up my special Van. I got it after I broke my back...as I still can't ride in normal cars.
We have a small house, nothing fancy, sheds need to be replaced but we can't afford it right now. We do not eat out hardly at all because both DS and I have some pretty major food allergies.
Only time we go anywhere is to meet up with the miniature horse crowd and go once a year to the Japanese tree sale.
As far as spending and doing stuff..we are pretty low key. Also can't afford too.
Why you say...am I rambling on like this? Because I am worried. A Company bought out DH division at Intel. And the Boss they decided to use is a..
horse turd. The job which is one of only 5 in the country that can do it, one being DH... might be going overseas.
We don't need this right now.
I very, very tired of this kind of stuff going on and is a sore spot with me. :arg!
Right now they are sending him to NC... to do testing over there.
We sure can't afford to move..even though I have family there. And I do not want us to live in different states again. Had to when DH finally got a full time job with Intel..is the whole reason we moved to this farm. 6 months.. I lived at the old farm and he lived on his families Farm in Dallas OR. That was hard..and very spendy..keeping two households.
OR was the only place he could get a job. So we moved.
America needs to wake up.. or we will be owned by another country soon. We need to do what is right here first, before the Gov sticks their fingers in all the other pies in the rest of the world.Yes,,I already know they are doing it.
Other wise... all the good jobs will be in other countries..and we will have more and more poor people because all the good jobs have gone to other parts of the world. Only the very rich or people from other countries can afford land and the rest of us................become the new 3rd world country.
Sorry to get so Personal.. .. but it is as I said... a very sore spot with me.