Living Lean
Without Prejudice
Here at the House Of The 7 Dwarves we are going back to basics. Starting now. I watched a documentary last Sunday Night. It was all about the future (Don't ask me why I watch these things, it's a brain thing ) On the doco they had all the top scientists and Steven Hawking. It was scary and informational but ultimately inspirational
and we have decided to apply a few expert tips to our lives.
The global economic crisis did really come down to a handful of very powerful and immensely wealthy Bankers. Apparently they have fantastic Estates, which they want ever bigger and they pay themselves huge salaries and want more, more, more.
They feel that money puts them outside the circumstances of "normal" people. The immensely wealthy feel that way about most of us. A slightly contemptuos regard, a bit the way the Pollies see us "Huddled masses". Pollies have shown the same disregard for "the ordinary person"
Technology will find the way out of our current problems, technology and every day people like you and me. The facts are that we are already 4 billion people, By the time we reach 10 billion we either have to colonise another planet or make this a better one.
The experts said Humans are the only animal species that question, that have the intelligence to ask, "Why???" "Why is it so?? Why do we have climate change, why do we decimate forests and it wasn't wholely and solely about being "Green" Chimps,the closest animal to Humans do not have this unique ability we have. Only Humans have it.
The doco was fascinating, 98% of humans are descended from the Hunter Gatherers. Our ancient ancestors were living in caves and throwing a dinosaur burger on the Barbie. The men hunted and the women kept the cave fire burning. Thats why we hate the city with its constant pressures and complications. And we are gentle people, not warriors.
One quote from one scientist was that things have become so silly that he drives his two and a half tonne car from stop light to stop light to get to "work". He questioned his own consumption in that act. Adding to pollution, using resources, costing him money that he gains from a job lived in the "city".
The world is based on things we no longer agree with and probably never did. We didn't realise we needed the newest phone when we were sitting in our caves.
They said the way we live has become uncomfortable for most people. It's all become "Too Much" and when that happens, historically, then the pendulum begins swinging the other way. Back towards less.And that humans will find the solution. The natural order of things being that we are happy with a lot less. There are warehouses in China, full of stuff we can never use.
And now that people have decided enough is enough we are being more discerning about "our lives", our kids lives and grand children. Most people want to give them a better future. I'd rather the boys we look after live Lean. Less is more. They have enough and so do we. I could dine out for a week on the "stuff" that is in my unit. It's surreal. I live on my own and I have drawers full of "stuff" I have no hope of ever using.
We want a water tank and chickens in a pen and grow our own vegies and let the little boys help water and see things grow. We want solar panles so one day we can come off the grid like the people I saw near Camp Eden. They all had little farmlets with goats, sheep, a cow, a horse, they lived simply and well. Of course that's Queensland, Melbourne is a little different but we can do it.
Older people that have been through the Great Depression had immense survival skills, so too anyone that went through the War. To heal the future we need to look to the past, simple love, simple life, less is more, "Lean Living"
xxx
I have a car, my Granson has an Audi, and Yvette has a Tarago. Its great for taking the kids on outings. But that's 3 cars, 3 regos, 3 petrol consumers. We have so much, really, three boys are at work and earning, one is away on Cadet Camp, 2 are starting Day Care today for 3 days a week and even though she has 7 boys, their Mum, Yvette finds it a wrench.
I can't wait until the two oldest get to be Policeman. Kyle and Zachary. They would be the best sort of Policemen. The first person they would arrest is their Dad and put him in good Rehab before he burns out like the Shooting Star he likes to think he is. He's more of a liabilty at this stage. But he's alive and straight at the moment and go from there.
We are blessed with no "idiots!", Yvette says, at the moment. God, we worked hard to get here, get this house and unit operational. As a safe haven for kids and women, (us) and where we have some control over our future. living the way we wanted to. Kids, a dog, a cat, swings, trampoline, tidy garden, a home.
Living lean means less is so much more. Yvette is an inspiration in this way, so are several of my friends and my Sis In Laws. A single Mum can make a dollar streeeetchhhhh. And I learn and learn from them. We want to be so totally self sufficient it's not funny. We want our own water tank, our own solar power and come off the grid.
We want a pen for chickens, a vegie garden, strawberries for the boys they can pop into their mouths, warm from the sun and the juice running down their fat little chins. Another unit for Kyle and his baby son. Then we are all together and share resources as we already do. When my wealthy brother took Yvette food shopping, she spent $37. He laughed and said she could have anything and finally spent $60. He said his kids would have cost him $400.
To someone like Yvette that is a terrible waste of money as she can do it for so much less and save the rest. Her Uncle then told her to watch every dollar and she ended up going to pay her electricity bill and she was $700 in credit. Her Uncle laughed his head off when he heard this
But I'm sure he was so glad she had listened and learned.
Here at the House Of The 7 Dwarves we are going back to basics. Starting now. I watched a documentary last Sunday Night. It was all about the future (Don't ask me why I watch these things, it's a brain thing ) On the doco they had all the top scientists and Steven Hawking. It was scary and informational but ultimately inspirational
and we have decided to apply a few expert tips to our lives.
The global economic crisis did really come down to a handful of very powerful and immensely wealthy Bankers. Apparently they have fantastic Estates, which they want ever bigger and they pay themselves huge salaries and want more, more, more.
They feel that money puts them outside the circumstances of "normal" people. The immensely wealthy feel that way about most of us. A slightly contemptuos regard, a bit the way the Pollies see us "Huddled masses". Pollies have shown the same disregard for "the ordinary person"
Technology will find the way out of our current problems, technology and every day people like you and me. The facts are that we are already 4 billion people, By the time we reach 10 billion we either have to colonise another planet or make this a better one.
The experts said Humans are the only animal species that question, that have the intelligence to ask, "Why???" "Why is it so?? Why do we have climate change, why do we decimate forests and it wasn't wholely and solely about being "Green" Chimps,the closest animal to Humans do not have this unique ability we have. Only Humans have it.
The doco was fascinating, 98% of humans are descended from the Hunter Gatherers. Our ancient ancestors were living in caves and throwing a dinosaur burger on the Barbie. The men hunted and the women kept the cave fire burning. Thats why we hate the city with its constant pressures and complications. And we are gentle people, not warriors.
One quote from one scientist was that things have become so silly that he drives his two and a half tonne car from stop light to stop light to get to "work". He questioned his own consumption in that act. Adding to pollution, using resources, costing him money that he gains from a job lived in the "city".
The world is based on things we no longer agree with and probably never did. We didn't realise we needed the newest phone when we were sitting in our caves.
They said the way we live has become uncomfortable for most people. It's all become "Too Much" and when that happens, historically, then the pendulum begins swinging the other way. Back towards less.And that humans will find the solution. The natural order of things being that we are happy with a lot less. There are warehouses in China, full of stuff we can never use.
And now that people have decided enough is enough we are being more discerning about "our lives", our kids lives and grand children. Most people want to give them a better future. I'd rather the boys we look after live Lean. Less is more. They have enough and so do we. I could dine out for a week on the "stuff" that is in my unit. It's surreal. I live on my own and I have drawers full of "stuff" I have no hope of ever using.
We want a water tank and chickens in a pen and grow our own vegies and let the little boys help water and see things grow. We want solar panles so one day we can come off the grid like the people I saw near Camp Eden. They all had little farmlets with goats, sheep, a cow, a horse, they lived simply and well. Of course that's Queensland, Melbourne is a little different but we can do it.
Older people that have been through the Great Depression had immense survival skills, so too anyone that went through the War. To heal the future we need to look to the past, simple love, simple life, less is more, "Lean Living"
xxx
I have a car, my Granson has an Audi, and Yvette has a Tarago. Its great for taking the kids on outings. But that's 3 cars, 3 regos, 3 petrol consumers. We have so much, really, three boys are at work and earning, one is away on Cadet Camp, 2 are starting Day Care today for 3 days a week and even though she has 7 boys, their Mum, Yvette finds it a wrench.
I can't wait until the two oldest get to be Policeman. Kyle and Zachary. They would be the best sort of Policemen. The first person they would arrest is their Dad and put him in good Rehab before he burns out like the Shooting Star he likes to think he is. He's more of a liabilty at this stage. But he's alive and straight at the moment and go from there.
We are blessed with no "idiots!", Yvette says, at the moment. God, we worked hard to get here, get this house and unit operational. As a safe haven for kids and women, (us) and where we have some control over our future. living the way we wanted to. Kids, a dog, a cat, swings, trampoline, tidy garden, a home.
Living lean means less is so much more. Yvette is an inspiration in this way, so are several of my friends and my Sis In Laws. A single Mum can make a dollar streeeetchhhhh. And I learn and learn from them. We want to be so totally self sufficient it's not funny. We want our own water tank, our own solar power and come off the grid.
We want a pen for chickens, a vegie garden, strawberries for the boys they can pop into their mouths, warm from the sun and the juice running down their fat little chins. Another unit for Kyle and his baby son. Then we are all together and share resources as we already do. When my wealthy brother took Yvette food shopping, she spent $37. He laughed and said she could have anything and finally spent $60. He said his kids would have cost him $400.
To someone like Yvette that is a terrible waste of money as she can do it for so much less and save the rest. Her Uncle then told her to watch every dollar and she ended up going to pay her electricity bill and she was $700 in credit. Her Uncle laughed his head off when he heard this
But I'm sure he was so glad she had listened and learned.
