Drowning In The Mainstream

100 kits, wine making kit, tool kit, gardening kit, …, however, each kit should be as trim as possible. We need to learn that need and want are very different things.

Shorty

Um, I’m weird? LOL Just happy that I am not the only that’s this odd ..

1.  First steps are all the same, regardless of what motivates you; whether you’re a person faith concerned about our stewardship of God’s gift, a parent or grand parent concerned about the sustainability of the lifestyle your children will inherit, a conservationists concerned about the biodiversity of the earth, an America-firster who believes Energy Independence IS Homeland Security, a survivalists convinced civilization has reached its boundries, or a person who just likes the challenge of minimizing inputs and maximizing benefits.  So don’t worry about sounding Hippie-dippie. 

2. Ya’ll touchy. 

Rick

2.  LMAO

Jonathan
Yes!

Shorty

Agreed!

Great show, as always! Here’s a question that came to mind when listening - why should one desi
 
I used to be a yuppie MBA living in the DC beltway (the only good my MBA did for me was to end a bad engagement when studying for it! LOL!). I was put off by anything that appeared to be anti-capitalist. I was, and still am, into Ayn Rand. Greed is Good!
 
I completely agree re to be simple and why should simplicity be an end in itself?
that homesteading has made my life more complex than ever! It’s addictive, too! Well, at least I am much, much happier, and healthier, for it!

About Battlestar Galactica – Hulu used to have Galactica ’80 (unfortunately, no longer on- I just checked). In one of the shows, the scouts get sick by drinking from a polluted pond and they show the future to convince the owner of the pond and factory not to do that anymore by showing him the future consequences of his actions (cancer and death). This ties into what you were saying about making the benefits known.

Is it too late to comment on the Anarcho-Capitalism episode?    

Oops! I accidentally dragged my sentences around! I meant to ask why should one desire to be simple and why should simplicity be an end in itself?
 
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I completely agree that homesteading has made my life more complex than ever! It’s addictive, too!  

My fortune cookie says: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”. My wife (who ate the cookies since I am gluten-intolerant) had this: “Organize your life around your dreams and watch them come true”. Hmmm…maybe I should play the lucky numbers on the back!

In the last year I’ve been trying to ask myself “do we need this or do we want this,” before making a purchase.  It helps…  but 35 years of the “I WANTS” are difficult to let go of.  (But I need this new dehorner to disbud the dairy goat kids I want!)

Kid stuff.  Some think they’re supposed to have it, and use it just because they have it.  Some need it so they can take care of all the rest of their stuff!  Doesn’t help that there’s this societal idea that we have to make our kids independent from the get-go.  If you hold them too much they’ll “get used to it.” Better put them in the crib/swing/exersaucer/bouncy/stroller… 
We also have so much less family help than previous generations.  On the one hand this means that some of the baby-stuff keeps baby safe while parent gets a break that in the past would have been given by family support.  On another side, extended family used to be able to give new parents their *time* but now we move far away from family and all they can “give” is stuff.
It all starts with pregnancy in this country–tests, interventions, etc. are automatic.  There’s always something new that the professionals say we need!  In all aspects of our society, really.