Amish Etiquette?

There sense of family and community could teach us all a lesson. Never mind being strong enough to be outsiders and starred at on a constant basis.

That said there is good and bad in all groups.

Go over , taking a cake would be a very nice thing to do. Keep the first visit on the short side .

We have alot of Amish friends and if we were starting are lives over we would probally be alot more Amish than English.


Patty

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I hope your new neighbors are of the best kind of people. Honest, hard working, friendly, and able to take care of themselves. I hope they keep their farm clean and practice good husbandry over whatever they do. I think I would be thrilled at first also....but the farm I visited yesterday....I wouldn't want it within 20 miles of my place.

But the kids were really cute - peaking out from behind the manure piles at us and trying not to be seen.

Yea, but I can think of some Amish that fit that description.

Being Amish doesn't equate with inherent wonderfulness.

BINGO, BINGO, BINGO!!!!!!

They are people just like everybody else in the worlds, they just have a lifestyle and appearance that makes them appear different. They should not be placed on a pedestal at all.

I have several Amish customers that I have turned over to collections for non payment of bills. We have an Amish neighbor in the court system for various environmental violations. So you can see that simply being Amish does not equate to purity as the white driven snow.

Jim

We bought some cabinets from an Amish cabinet maker near us a few years ago. Very nice guy. I told him lots of people like doing business with the Amish. He looked at me and said " Most are good. Some of them will skin you as quick as anyone else".

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We live in the middle of "Old Order Amish Central". Most of the amish we've met are nice, a few of the "elders" are best to just be ignored cause that's what they do to us.

They are nice in the way you don't have to worry about them shooting things up, terrorizing the neighborhood, etc., BUT they have other qualities that really suck.

With our group in our immediate 5 mile radius area, forget about the nice clean beautiful farms pictured in magazines. Picture junk lying everywhere, houses that should be condemmed (if they buy farms with old houses on them), skinny unkempt livestock. They really keep our property taxes down, which is good, but honestly we get sick of looking at shabby places every day.

Their livestock care is minimal. You'll see them driving buggy & draft horses with visable skeletons and definate lameness. They use some methods of vet treatment from the dark ages (did you know that to cure colic, you shove an onion into the horse's rectum? My vet pulled an onion out of one unlucky horse. Did you also know that if your horse is foundering you don't put it on soft bedding and give it bute, you bleed it out until it faints from loss of blood and that makes it better? My husband witnessed the end of that) And the best one of late is the neighbor's 18 m.o. daughter has been having seizures, so instead of taking her to the doctor, they have their self taught chiropractor adjust her and say she's cured.

We can't wait until our house sells and we can move.

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Since they bought so much land, they are probably Amish... the Amish like to do that apparently
We have a lot of Amish people living in our neck of the woods. There are a couple Amish stores a few miles from us that we frequently do business with.
They are very friendly, and they seem to like baking So taking them a cake and welcoming them to the hood is probably a great idea!