Give Me the Simple Life

If you are talking to me you need to find the quote to support that. Good Luck.

 

This :

Does not equal this:

You have imposed your assumptions on what I said. and even then it was a bit of a reach.

 

I did not complain in the manner you are imposing on me. That is a false accusation. I simply pointed out that technology has its own time consuming issues. There is zero irony to observe.

 

I can say I spend no time on that I use Linux so those are not a problem for me, I am glad my customers use windows so I can fix their problems

 

According to whom? Some people think it means having less material goods.

I don't like technology, in fact, but here's the irony -- it's made my life simpler.

 

Where do you think our material goods revolve around - tech toys.

 

Not everyone. I'm a computer programmer and I been using computers in some form for over 20 years (I started with a TRS-80). I don't have anything I would consider a tech toy.

My material goods revolve around other things like my boat, fishing equipment, etc.

 

How? Not everyone buys their stuff on the internet. When I do, it's stuff I need. I'm a missionary - I do know the simple life. :thumbs:

If you want the simple life, live on donations.

 

I think this is what gets me about all this talk on the "simple life," aside from the fact that people mean something different by it -- I've been living the simple life all my adult life. I've never owned a house, I drive an old car, I've usually had to go to laundromats to do clothes, and I lived in a 1 bedroom apt. with my son for 13 years. My living room was the living room, bedroom, ministry hdqtrs, and my study - for 13 years.

So I get tired of people urging the simple life. If it's so great, why don't they just go live it.

 

If it were not a sin I would envy you.:thumbs:

 

You envy living on donations? It does build faith but it's hard. You never know how much you are going to get and sometimes it's not enough. In fact, I need to raise about $700 more per month.

Or do you envy living in a 1 bedroom apt. with your son and having the living room be your bedroom and study? Or do you envy going to laundromats?

I'm not complaining. It's just that people love to talk about the simple life but I wonder if they really want it. Stop talking and go live it, I say.

 

I am simple enough as it is. Think I will prolly remain so to the end now.

Cheers,

Jim

 

Marcia, I can relate!!!

I finally own a home, but it didn't have indoor plumbing for quite some time. ANyone envy showers (from a watering can) in the barn during a cold October?

 

Spinach, you could try showering in water from a bloody river as dead bodies floated by! That's what we had in Korea. The watering can sounds great.........

Cheers,

Jim

 

Many years ago, I bought an eleven acre parcel of land on the Chesapeake Bay for my family to use as a weekend place, and mabe a place for my wife and I to retire to.

We loved that little place. A few years later, I learned that the farm next to us was going up for sale. My wife, who was an accountant, convinced me that we could buy the farm, even though it was ridiculously beyond anything we could ever afford by buying it and leasing it to a local agriculture concern.

We did.

One day, I realized that I was very unsatisfied with my job at the bank and we found that we started spending more and more time there at the farm. The children thought they had died and gone to Heaven and my wife, who was an avid horse lover, wanted to move there full time so that she could have horses again.

Once again, my wife came to my rescue. Using her experience as an accountant, she explained to me that we could renegotiate our mortagage and get by leasing out only about 1/3 of the farm. She also convinced me to stop being miserable at the bank and turn my lifelong passion of woodworking into a full time business. I did and we made the move to the farm.

Little by little, we started planting gardens, raising chickens and sheep and a few cows, getting into "alternative energy", and just generally becoming self-sufficient.

So now, we grow/catch/kill about 75% of everything we eat, barter for just about everything, have no TV, and very few technical gadgets, and have never been happier.

 

I'm most definitely not envious!

When we first moved here, we had to warm our water in the sun all day in 10liter water bottles. Then we'd transfer the water to the watering can and shower one another. It wasn't too bad, except in October when the winds picked up. I remember crying and then being upset at myself for crying. You could shower everything but the feet, because hay/mud/whatever else was in that dirt floor splashed up on the lower legs and feet. There was no door on the barn either. I tell you, I was never so happy as to see an indoor shower!!!

What an adventurous life, eh?