[Dawnsblood]

I feel sorry for their children. To think they are stuck with the last two people in the western world that still believe in hippies and communes.

[meadsjn]

Now they are trying to get rid of it all, ...

Chasing a utopian vision of a self-sustaining life on the land ...

The Harrises now hope to end up as organic homesteaders in Vermont.

Patience, you silly people ...

Hope and Change™ is on the way

[JRochelle]

Don’t feel sorry for the kids. My grandfather was a wanderer, in search of utopia. He ended up in South America, my mother followed him down there and I had a perfect childhood. Perfect.

We had very little ‘stuff.’ But we had friends and family and lots of love and I wouldn’t have traded that for all the stuff in the world.

[Hot Tabasco]

Mrs. Harris grew up in Wisconsin with her mother and sister. They were so poor, she says, that they nearly froze to death in the winter and had to cook their meals in the fireplace. She developed a weight problem, ballooning to 200 pounds

My family was so poor we couldn't even afford to pay attention

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal." ...

My family was so poor that if I hadn't been born a boy,I wouldn't of had anything to play with

My family was so poor that the skeletons in our closet died of malnutrition.

My family was so poor that the hobos used to drop off lunches for us kids.

My family was so poor we didn't even have lead paint on the walls to eat.

My family was so poor that once when somebody threw the dog a bone, he had to call for a fair catch.

My family was so poor that all the cockroaches died of starvation.

My family was so poor that on garbage day, we had to beg for garbage from our neighbors to put on our curb.

My family was so poor we couldn't even afford to live in the ghetto. We lived in the alley behind the ghetto........

My family was so poor that we saved up all year long so's we could have spam for Thanksgiving.

My family was so poor that the only clothes I had to wear were hand-me-downs from my older sister.....

[Chode]

when i moved out of the country i was living in a ~2000sq' house so i sold/gave away almost 2/3 of what i owned and it was a very weird feeling, an almost freeing if you will.

i wondered if that was how somebody about to commit suicide feels after giving away their stuff as some do

anyway, i shed even more stuff before returning to the states and now barely fill a 650sq' cabin.

but everything i have now, will last me the rest of my life...

[Ditter]

This lifestyle used to be called subsistence farming and it is a tough way to live. Lots of our ancestors lived this way as they moved across the south US to Texas. I come from people who lived this way and I remember their stories.