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05/27/08, 10:30 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 31
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Originally Posted by Wolf Flower
Now that I work at home, I sold my car and rarely leave the property. Is this healthy?!? Am I becoming a hermit, and if so, is this a bad thing?
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Wolf Flower, you are living my dream!
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05/27/08, 11:45 AM
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aka RamblinRoseRanc :)
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Morristown, TN
Posts: 5,066
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I envy y'all who don't have to work off the 'stead. I really do. I dream of the day I can stand in the yard in the NM heat and dust (assuming I can breathe better in NM, of course) and squint into the dust coating my truck's windshield and try to remember the last time I drove it....
For now, it's leaving the house five days a week for work, Saturdays for farmer's market shoppin' and grocery shoppin' and Sunday's for breakfast. Once my garden starts producing, I can cut those Saturday trips down to once a month, though. I can't wait!
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05/27/08, 03:04 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone 9b, Lake Harney, Central FL
Posts: 4,898
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I try to stay on the homestead at least one day on the weekend. I bring home videos, groceries, cleaning and laundry supplies and stuff from the hardware store on Friday night so I don’t have to leave. It is helping save gas money mostly, but it also helps maintain what little sanity I have left!
I putter about and sit in the shade with a cool drink and contemplate what needs doing next. Using the crock pot helps as I don’t heat up the house and don’t have to lose project time to cooking and cleaning (thanks everyone for all the suggestions on crock pot lasagna….it was so easy and delicious and I had enough for 3 meals so the freezer got fed, too).
Why pay all that money for a mortgage, taxes and inusrance if you are never home? I bought a $30 canopy tent, $30 worth of stackable lawn chairs and tables, and a $11 kiddy pool. I put up the canopy, centered the pool under it, alternated the chairs and tables in a circle around the pool and we call it our spa. Even the cats lounge on the chairs and enjoy the breeze and the shade.
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06/20/08, 07:47 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: central south dakota
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WOW, i really thought there was something odd about me (well, maybe there is but not about this!) i soooo fit here! i was working on a couple dairies near town, but they both shut down, i got goats the next day and hardly left since. odd circumstance but at same time as i was getting homebound, hubby got job in town (he was managing the ranch we live on) i almost make a game of it--how long can i go without town?! of course he does some errands for me after work, but that leaves me home to milk goats, make bread, make paintings (i'm an artist as a profession) and other homesteady/artsy things. plus kids, they still need mom. (sometimes!) so it sure is grand to find a group of folks who speak my language, i feel so less odd!
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06/20/08, 08:52 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Northwestern Coastal California
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The only time I leave the hilltop, is when I have a doctor appointment. I have between two to four industrial medical appointments per week, every week. So I do get a medical travel allowence, which almost pays for the gasoline nowadays. I run my few errands after the appointment.
Otherwise I do enjoy staying home, and don't mind not having to leave the property. I have more than enough to do up here. The current priority project is cutting lots of firewood and splitting and stacking it.
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06/20/08, 09:28 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northeastern Oklahoma
Posts: 5,021
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Me! Me! Count me in the hermit crowd! I've worked at home off and on since the mid 80s, so I've always been somewhat of a hermit, but I had a husband and a young son back then so had to get out in the world. Now I've moved way out in the boonies, lol, live alone and don't even own a car.
My son and daughter-in-law come on a Friday and take me to town to run errands, shop, etc., and we usually go out for either lunch or dinner while we're in town. I occasionally will have a fit of cabin fever and NEED to get out, but for a while we were doing it every Friday and by the time I get home I'm just physically and emotionally exhausted, every Friday is just too much! Well, except this week, I was actually looking forward to getting out, haven't been able to work all week and am going a little stir crazy, and of course this is the one week none of us really needed anything in town so we didn't go.
But normally I'm very happy here by myself and sometimes don't even speak to another person for two weeks at a time. I have my work and I have my crafts and hobbies, the internet, tons of books and my little garden, and that suits me just fine. Now if this arm I broke in January would ever heal so I could actually do more of the stuff I'm dying to do, I'd be so happy I'd be purring, lol. 
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06/20/08, 09:40 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: KY
Posts: 12,672
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I love working at home and not having to leave for an office in town, even if it is just 5 miles away.
I am a hermit. DH is looking forward to the day he can become a himmet.
I'd probably never leave this place, but my mom's in the nursing home and I go to see her several times a week. I try to do everything I need to get done with one trip.
I think I could live here at least a year without having to leave.
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06/21/08, 10:30 AM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: SWMO-Springfield area
Posts: 122
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Sigh, That describes my hubby exactly, well, except the owning a gas station...
The problem is while he's all BTDT, I haven't so we have friction at times.
For the most part, if I have things set up the way I want, I don't want to leave much either. There are a few hobbies I have that are better if you have other people around to share with but that's it.....
Sabrina
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I was in the military and went to three countries in europe and three in Asia, I drove a truck around the usa off and on for 30 yrs, owned a garage-gas station,raised on a dairy farm, saw all the people and all the places that i want and need to so i seldom ever leave the place, everyone that i want to see comes here, a little to often to suit me, i just like being alone with my wife and the kids,GKs when they come over.
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06/21/08, 11:04 AM
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Banned
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: georgia
Posts: 772
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You are just like a lot of us . Love your land & it will make you a living . Stay home & enjoy.
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06/21/08, 03:40 PM
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Cracked Nut
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Owen County Kentucky
Posts: 421
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im a hermit on 12acres in northern kentuky was a long haul truck driver owner operator for 7 years b4 i got sick so ive been all over the lower 48 plus canada and mexico so ive seen enough to know i like it here where im at now Hermits Unite!!!!!
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06/21/08, 08:47 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 5,662
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Count me in the hermit parade! I work two days a week, and we go to church on Sunday. I try to get errands done before or after work, and take Grandma to town once or twice a month in addition, so she can do what she needs to do. I'd be happy staying home all the time as long as we could get to church. I have plenty here to keep me occupied, and being occupied is happy!
Kathleen
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06/22/08, 01:38 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 3,656
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Originally Posted by Wolf Flower
Well, I don't know if you can call what I'm doing homesteading. I own one acre surrounded by the neighbor's almond orchards. I recently renovated an outbuilding and moved my pet grooming business from a strip mall in town to my home. We raise poultry, have a veggie garden and fruit trees, and of course lots of pet critters.
Now that I work at home, I sold my car and rarely leave the property. And you know what? I have absolutely no desire to leave the property. My better half has a job at the brewery, so he runs most of the errands and brings home free beer. I stay home, groom dogs and cats, board a few dogs, tend the stock, bake bread, putter around... and rarely go anywhere. I have pretty much everything I need right here, and I'm content and happy as can be.
I used to travel quite a bit, and enjoyed visiting the city. I haven't even left the house for about two weeks, and at this moment I'm not entertaining any travel plans. I have to go to a wedding next month in San Francisco, which is a three hour drive, and we're staying for the weekend. But other than that I have absolutely no motivation to leave.
Is this healthy?!?
I can't even bother myself to drive two miles down the road to make a bank deposit or pick up groceries.
Am I becoming a hermit, and if so, is this a bad thing? |
sounds like heaven to me.
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06/22/08, 03:38 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: No. Cal.
Posts: 130
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You will know when it's time to get away for awhile ,when you are happy to talk with your clients (people not the dogs) and are sad when they leave. I say you have everything going for you, in addition to significant financial savings! Good for you!
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