homesteading for morons

HOMESTEADING FOR MORONS

I’ve said it before-homesteading is as easy as camping.  I’m now repeating it and hoping like hell I’m not repeating myself too soon ( I’m sure it has been years-but hopefully more like five years than one or two ).  That would be embarrassing.  And I’m not even repeating it because I have no other idea what to write about.  This is actually a good week with several ideas waiting in line ( some weeks I listlessly troll other similarly themed sites hoping for a spark of inspiration ).  No, I just ran across this discussion and it stuck in my head.

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Viking Preparedness Dude was talking about a comment he had gotten to the effect that the good pastor had an unfair advantage in his situation and few could duplicate that.  His reply was that all one needed was the proper motivation and they could start homesteading right away, and catch up quickly.  Which is true, but he offered few details.  One imagines the complaint was based on his having a pension so that there was no need to find work.  There might have been a pay-off of the land while working towards retirement, but I don’t know.

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No one is saying that homesteading is easy in comparison to finding an apartment and a job in the city, but it sure as hell ain’t as hard as Mother Earth, Backwood’s Home and Rawles make it out to be.  Their problem is that they are pimping advice for Yuppie Scum.  And that was almost okay because most folks were middle class and had professions rather than jobs and most folks-those that wanted to buy the message and pay the messenger- had the means to achieve a middle class lifestyle in the country.  That worked well twenty-five years ago.

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Do you know why our elite and all the 9% Kool-Aid drinking obsequious toadies licking their rectums so hate Russia and Putin?  We had Color Revolution’ed Russia fair and square and were taking our just desserts in the form of colonial plunder ( remember how cheap oil was in the 90’s? ), and those bastards were audacious enough to insist on taking back their own resources and asserting their sovereignty!  How cheeky!  And I’m not being funny-this is exactly how our Supreme Overlords think.  The spoils of war, even if the cold War was mostly at our behest.

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And I’m not complaining per se.  I enjoyed the pirate booty as much as everyone else, even if I didn’t squander mine on a soccer mom SUV with pimping chrome spinners.  I did the sensible pirate thing and got silver ( and brass ) and the land to bury it on.  We didn’t have wealth because we earned it ( what does the US produce that the rest of the world simply must have? ) but because we stole it.  I’m jiggy wid dat.  But it is time to realize our ship has been hulled.  Don’t go down with it.

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For all those still hanging on to the American Dream, a hearty Good On You.  You don’t need this advice.  For those barely hanging on to a job in an industry soon to be outsourced to Diversity Hires or Ornamentals, and want to go get a homestead to be safe from all the Worse Crap dogpiling us all the time, but don’t see how they can possibly do it, I hope this helps somewhat.  But both of you, well off AND struggling, beware homesteading is time sensitive.  As soon as we see another implosion, it will get a LOT harder.

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The general trend has been, for at least a century if not a bit more, folks moving to urban areas for jobs.  That hasn’t stopped. Even in Turd World countries where everyone knows there aren’t enough jobs in the cities, they still move there anyway.  At least here there is the option of the suburbs, supporting an automobile and the colonizing of other countries to force the PetroDollar on them so we can have $2 gasoline to affordably ( if not very cheaply ) get to a job in the city.  But we still go to the city, if only for half the day.

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Once we reach a tipping point in employment, and that could be either actual unemployment or just Diversity Hire employment theft, all that country land ( not suburbia but actual rural property ) will swiftly disappear because us White boys we just LOVE the idea of homesteading.  There is plenty of expensive property out there.  Hell, go a hundred miles from any water source in California and I’m sure you can still find rather expensive land ( if you comply with mandatory permiting and such ).  But cheap land?

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That is in limited supply.  So if you want to get your ass homesteading, you need to panic early and avoid the rush.  Even if you don’t move, at least buy the land now while you can, affordably.  I know, you have AR’s and FLIR scopes to buy, so a piece of land selling for $3,000 is just too insanely extravagant to contemplate!  Make payments, Jesus.  Do I have to think of everything? ( every damn day at the end of the article is my info dump.  Begging for donations, links to others like Wally wheat.  And the link to junk land-as low as $600 ).

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Only a tiny fraction of those facing doom will know about and want to move out on a piece of raw land.  That will quadruple prices if not worse.  The supply will be too low for even limited increased demand.  Not that you should JUST buy.  You should actually move out there and practice homesteading.  But if nothing else, scrape up $100 a month and make payments from afar.  That is better than being stuck in the new Detroit or Newark.  Not that there aren’t great buying opportunities in Detroit.  You can practice Bosnian warfare as you garden.

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I believe my example of homesteading will be helpful, as I had no advantages when I undertook the move.  I did so with limited savings, no job, child support due in three weeks and with a wife that was of absolutely no help.  I don’t know how else to prove how simple and moron proof homesteading is, with so little money required it is embarrassing.  It really does only take willpower.  Sweat equity rather than money.  Well, and the proper attitude.  You must lower expectations along with your available resources.  But still, butt simple.  I’ll continue tomorrow.

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note: a few months ago I read that paper products might be going up in price.  I can't remember why-perhaps a wood pulp shortage.  The other night, the brother in law reported the change was going into effect ( he works at a big toilet paper/hand towel manufacture ).   I know it isn't the biggest deal we must face, but every time you can save even a few percentage it is a win.  I just bought ten 12-packs from Family Dollar ( cheaper than Wally, cost per square foot ) and the hall closet is jam packed.
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