Hopefully not, but we've been following a new trend that's been growing---
Living on $5,000 a year, on purpose: Meet America's 'intentional poor'
More than two decades ago, then-33-year-old Dan Price had a wife, two small children, a high-interest mortgage, and a stressful job as a photojournalist in Kentucky. He worried daily about money and the workaday grind.
“I told myself, ‘buck up and pay the bills,’” said Price. “This is just the way normal life is.”
Then he learned about what he calls “the simple life.”
---and this morning the wife and I were talking again about how we could cook in the fire place and I could put up a solar water heater. Lot's of people in this area that stay fat on the rice & beans growing on their front lawn. Amazing what's possible with a little effort and a good sense of humor...