Comments on: More on Money http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2005/04/22/more-on-money/ Christian Agrarian Counterculture Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:53:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Walter Jeffries http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2005/04/22/more-on-money/comment-page-1/#comment-188 Walter Jeffries Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:39:00 +0000 http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2005/04/22/more-on-money/#comment-188 It is funny that people think children are so expensive. They aren't. Each of our children only added a tiny bit to our annual expenses and the return on investment is so great. It is funny that people think children are so expensive. They aren’t. Each of our children only added a tiny bit to our annual expenses and the return on investment is so great.

]]> By: reformed farmer http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2005/04/22/more-on-money/comment-page-1/#comment-187 reformed farmer Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:19:00 +0000 http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2005/04/22/more-on-money/#comment-187 You know my way with words :) As soon as I posted that I thought "Oh no....I just implied they look like low end call girls." Of course I ment you were THRIFTY. Scott You know my way with words :)
As soon as I posted that I thought “Oh no….I just implied they look like low end call girls.”
Of course I ment you were THRIFTY.

Scott

]]> By: abigail http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2005/04/22/more-on-money/comment-page-1/#comment-186 abigail Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:04:00 +0000 http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2005/04/22/more-on-money/#comment-186 I'm laughing especially at your last sentence. By "cheap girls", I certainly hope you mean we're thrifty and not that we're painted up like Ladies of the Night! And as one Queen of Cheapville, I look forward to commenting on your post later. Tell Leah happy birthday for me! I'd post it on her blog, but I bet she doesn't check it that often. Flowers and books. Y'done well, Scott. I’m laughing especially at your last sentence. By “cheap girls”, I certainly hope you mean we’re thrifty and not that we’re painted up like Ladies of the Night!

And as one Queen of Cheapville, I look forward to commenting on your post later.

Tell Leah happy birthday for me! I’d post it on her blog, but I bet she doesn’t check it that often. Flowers and books. Y’done well, Scott.

]]> By: reformed farmer http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2005/04/22/more-on-money/comment-page-1/#comment-185 reformed farmer Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:14:00 +0000 http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2005/04/22/more-on-money/#comment-185 Abby Thanks for the ideas. Those are good. I also like picking wildflowers, in fact I did so Sunday morning on my way up the hill. I was able to get Leah flowers for her birthday(for free!) to compliment her new books. I look foward to your comments on my future posts on being a cheap skate.....you and my wife are the queens of cheapville. Opps I better mention Mrs. Newman less she be offended. It seems all my friends married cheap girls. Scott Abby

Thanks for the ideas. Those are good. I also like picking wildflowers, in fact I did so Sunday morning on my way up the hill. I was able to get Leah flowers for her birthday(for free!) to compliment her new books. I look foward to your comments on my future posts on being a cheap skate…..you and my wife are the queens of cheapville. Opps I better mention Mrs. Newman less she be offended. It seems all my friends married cheap girls.

Scott

]]> By: abigail http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2005/04/22/more-on-money/comment-page-1/#comment-184 abigail Mon, 25 Apr 2005 03:03:00 +0000 http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2005/04/22/more-on-money/#comment-184 1-10. (Same's yours, except change "watching a calf learn to walk" to "watching a baby learn to walk".) 11. Garbage picking, accepting gifts, or freecycling for books, paper, and art supplies so that I can freely 12. read, 13. write, 14. and draw. 15. Singing 16. Picking preferably wild flowers (or swiping purposefully planted ones if no one's looking. Your stipulation was that the action be free, not that it be morally right) 17. Swimming in the Speonk sea or the horse pasture crick (as long as it's wet) 18. Climbing a tree until I'm too high up to remember 19. Smoothing the brow of one I love 20. Being outside when the wind's strength tears all words away And millions more. It's good to be able to think of so many. And I just thought of something funny, Scott. You hate water and you hate wind. (You'd pass on some of my free favorites.) 1-10. (Same’s yours, except change “watching a calf learn to walk” to “watching a baby learn to walk”.)
11. Garbage picking, accepting gifts, or freecycling for books, paper, and art supplies so that I can freely
12. read,
13. write,
14. and draw.
15. Singing
16. Picking preferably wild flowers (or swiping purposefully planted ones if no one’s looking. Your stipulation was that the action be free, not that it be morally right)
17. Swimming in the Speonk sea or the horse pasture crick (as long as it’s wet)
18. Climbing a tree until I’m too high up to remember
19. Smoothing the brow of one I love
20. Being outside when the wind’s strength tears all words away

And millions more. It’s good to be able to think of so many. And I just thought of something funny, Scott. You hate water and you hate wind. (You’d pass on some of my free favorites.)

]]> By: reformed farmer http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2005/04/22/more-on-money/comment-page-1/#comment-183 reformed farmer Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:31:00 +0000 http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2005/04/22/more-on-money/#comment-183 Hey Kelly Feel free to email me with any old question you have. I wouldn't have thought it rude. How to make ends meet is a good topic for us to disscuss here. Its a lot of little things really. And yes books are very important to us too! I'm no finiance expert by any means, but I can share what works for us. I think I'll do some posts on "Livin' on the Cheap". Stay tuned........ Scott Hey Kelly

Feel free to email me with any old question you have. I wouldn’t have thought it rude. How to make ends meet is a good topic for us to disscuss here. Its a lot of little things really. And yes books are very important to us too! I’m no finiance expert by any means, but I can share what works for us. I think I’ll do some posts on “Livin’ on the Cheap”. Stay tuned……..

Scott

]]> By: The BadgerMum http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2005/04/22/more-on-money/comment-page-1/#comment-182 The BadgerMum Sun, 24 Apr 2005 06:30:00 +0000 http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2005/04/22/more-on-money/#comment-182 I can't believe you posted this. I was actually thinking about emailing you and asking how much you have to have to live the way you do, only I figured it would be really rude. My problem is not so much trying to figure out how to be happy - we've never had cable, etc. - it's more wondering generally how to make ends meet - water, books, electricity, books, gasoline, books, groceries I can't raise, books, shoes, books... stuff like that. But then, we have an awful lot of debt from moving every two or three years, plus lots of plain old fashioned stupidity. I can’t believe you posted this. I was actually thinking about emailing you and asking how much you have to have to live the way you do, only I figured it would be really rude.

My problem is not so much trying to figure out how to be happy - we’ve never had cable, etc. - it’s more wondering generally how to make ends meet - water, books, electricity, books, gasoline, books, groceries I can’t raise, books, shoes, books… stuff like that. But then, we have an awful lot of debt from moving every two or three years, plus lots of plain old fashioned stupidity.

]]> By: Valerie (Kyriosity) http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2005/04/22/more-on-money/comment-page-1/#comment-181 Valerie (Kyriosity) Sat, 23 Apr 2005 22:46:00 +0000 http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2005/04/22/more-on-money/#comment-181 Well...duct tape can hold things together, too, but I don't know as I'd call the use of it "craftsmanship." ;-) What I'd really like to see is "Cloudlands," the house my g-g-g-g-g-grandfather built >200 years ago. It was an inn for a while, and is now a private home. Now <I>that</I> probably had some craftsmanship. Well…duct tape can hold things together, too, but I don’t know as I’d call the use of it “craftsmanship.” ;-)
What I’d really like to see is “Cloudlands,” the house my g-g-g-g-g-grandfather built >200 years ago. It was an inn for a while, and is now a private home. Now that probably had some craftsmanship.

]]> By: reformed farmer http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2005/04/22/more-on-money/comment-page-1/#comment-180 reformed farmer Sat, 23 Apr 2005 19:11:00 +0000 http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2005/04/22/more-on-money/#comment-180 I didn't mean FANCY. Anything that lasts 200 years must be made by someone with craftsmenship! Some of my favorite barns are very simple and not too fancy but have stood the real test....Time Scott I didn’t mean FANCY. Anything that lasts 200 years must be made by someone with craftsmenship! Some of my favorite barns are very simple and not too fancy but have stood the real test….Time

Scott

]]> By: Valerie (Kyriosity) http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2005/04/22/more-on-money/comment-page-1/#comment-179 Valerie (Kyriosity) Sat, 23 Apr 2005 14:59:00 +0000 http://www.homesteaderlife.christianagrarian.com/2005/04/22/more-on-money/#comment-179 You must be thinking of some richer peoples' 200-year-old farmhouses. Ours is a ramshackle construction with nary a true right angle to be found! You must be thinking of some richer peoples’ 200-year-old farmhouses. Ours is a ramshackle construction with nary a true right angle to be found!

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