As a 34 year old, I’m stepping away from urban lifestyle and picking up some acre to homestead. It’s always welcoming to see the older generation understand how we feel about the cards we’ve been dealt.
Well, if you don't mind the winters you should check out Maine, lots of large parcels of undeveloped land around me in western Maine for sale and it's cheap most of the time. 🙂 Also, even better is New Hampshire just to the west, no income taxes, no sales taxes. If I could pickup my homestead and move 25 miles west to NH I would, but starting over at this point seems like a hard road. But, for someone just getting in to it, lots of opportunities available to make your dreams come true. You just have to roll up your sleeves and make it happen and don't listen to the naysayers.
@@VeritasOmniaVinculaVincit winters don’t bother me, I’m from Michigan and we get that cold where it hurts to breathe lol. There’s a lot of deals here too but are farther north and my jobs isn’t remote any more. Maine one of those states that are on my bucket list, hopefully I can get out there some day
I think I love your videos so much because you're so "real" and I think we'd get along well if our families ever met! Thanks for another great video, it's encouraging me to continue to work on my own channel.
That's very nice of you to say. Thank you. You're very welcome. Definitely keep working on your channel. We posted for over 10 years and one day, on TikTok, we were an overnight success. It can totally happen!! Good luck with your channel. O
31 yr old here. Freedom is my reason for wanting to homestead/farm. Been saving to start, grewup on 10 acres and thought I wanted a normal "city" lifestyle but quickly realizing this "cooperate" job is a dead end job and I wanna go back to the woods. There is no happiness here and thinking back to when i was the happiest it was when I was young and free and my hopes and dreams while knowing it takes a lot of work and dedication is that I can be self relient while hopefully having some sort of an income through it allowing me to not have this stressful job working for someone else essentially giving me the feeling of "freedom". Hopefully it makes sense to whoever reads this and i get no hate lol sounds better in my head than typing it out.
Im 33, freedom and happiness are also the reason I want to homestead. Living in Canada though and wanting to stay in BC, its hard to find even raw land thats affordable.
@7kinhomestead Its definitely possible, you just need to spend a lot of time looking for affordable land land and it can take a long time to find it. Im hopeful that one day I can afford to homestead, at least enough land to be fully self reliant for my food production. I would hunt to supplement meat production as well, as im not sure if I would want to commit to raising even a few small cattle.
@7kinhomestead absolutely! Started with the house, moved in. Now it's aquaponic greenhouse, 15.5kw solar, walk in cooler and multiple outbuildings. Lots of 16hr days, daylight till we'll past dark and so worth it to raise our children like this
I'm 34 and I'm interested in homesteading because I hate government bureaucracy because they steal our money and waste it, then laugh in our faces (lately literally), and as you said, boomers voted this government and it's tyrannical policies in (especially the surveillance state), and ultimately I just want freedom and to keep my money and not be hassled about stupid things.
Unfortunately, the government doesn't make things easy for homesteaders and farmers, check the fed, state, and local ordinances of the property you plan on buying. It feels like there is a quite war on food going on. Also, with property taxes, you never really OWN your land, because if you don't pay they auction it away. It's disgusting. For every structure you put up, your taxes will go up, keep that in mind as you plan and build.
29 with a master's degree, wife & four children... in a 2 bedroom townhouse, making it work. Still in the dreaming phase about homesteading. I could probably really use the shoestring budget book. Thank you, friend.
The younger end of gen x here, but i totally agree with all you just said. Got a decent start to the rat race in my young adult life but then recession hit my area hard, everyone i knew was impacted by it in some way. Knocked us on our butts, and put many of us on par with the younger generations. Got us thinking about how to live so it doesnt happen again. Been homesteading 3 years and keep getting knocked down...by the county telling us we cant do this and cant do that (thought this was a free county with an inalienable right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness... i guess i missed the part that says ' as long as you pay the county exorbitant fees to tell you your business'... and nightmare neighbors. Looking at moving and starting over. Just feels like all the cards are stacked against our success, and that of our kids, nieces and nephews.
Wow!! I'm so sorry that's happening to you. I say if starting over is the path of least resistance then starting over it is. I'm not sure if it something you can fight. I had a situation like that and made myself such a pain by finding all the things they had to do like answering letter and then organized a letter writing campaign. Those sorts of things and wouldn't you know it, it was not worth it to them to pursue me. Lol. It might be worth looking into what sorts of things like that that you can do to fight back. I wish you the best of luck either way.
@7kinhomestead I'm looking at it as an opportunity to re-do the things I would have done differently if I had known then what I know now... BUT, I do LOVE your out of the box ideas! I am definitely going to look into that. Have been doing a little bit of fighting back and digging into state and county rules already, so I'll put my thinking cap on and come up with ideas... THANK YOU!
Genx here and I really appreciate you sharing your experiences and look forward to diving into the homesteading world once my son graduates hs this June. Your vids have really helped me prep... cheers.
I'm 41 and I'm selling my big beautiful cape cod on the golf course to live in a 3/2 mobile home on 6 acres with muscadines and pecan trees with my wife and kids. We've been out here for 4 months now. Learning who's who and what resources are available to us has been overwhelming. I was already good at carpentry but now I'm learning welding, logging and milling, I just shot and processed my first deer, made trades with neighbors for farm fresh eggs until we get our land situated. All that to say, I love unplugging from the matrix. 20 years of chasing money to be wiped out with nothibg to show for it but missed time with the family and putting everything else before then just trying to stay in the hamster wheel. It has been rocky, I'll start doing video to document our transition. Leaning into each other and our faith has been tested and continues to be strengthened. If you're thinking about it, do it. This is how we were made to live!
I'm a 47 yr old Gen X and can confirm that what you said is true. My family is only just now gearing up to repair and sell our California home so that we can gain acreage and proximity to nature on our own homestead. Our efforts here in Cali seem to be all for naught financially, it's just ridiculous to even stay above water at this point, so I'm glad to have been gifted by the algorithm with your videos. Seeing someone pulling off a homestead from less than nothing really boosts confidence levels, especially with so many channels that began their homesteads by dumping over half a million into it. Much success to you all!
I totally understand!! Its one of the things that always made me mad about homestead content. It made this lifestyle seem so unattainable. I'm glad the videos give you a different perspective. Thank you.
@@7kinhomesteadI’m 46 end of the x generations. In any case do the baby boomers who commented in your last thread understand solar power is getting cheaper every year and there is starlink and off grid air conditioning. The technology makes off grid living nearly as comfortable as city life. If you can at least prepare all your own food. Then with the hoa plague why buy a regular house in the suburbs?
Your common sense and intellect is above most folks....anymore... You keep teaching the truth. I will keep sharing your videos and eventually, hopefully, common sense will kick back in ... I'm 60 + grew up on a homestead.. you haven't said anything I disagree with.❤❤❤
I appreciate you saying that. I think that it's easier to have common sense when you live a few steps outside the noise. Out here, it's pretty quiet. 😂
@@7kinhomestead here where I am it's pretty quiet also.😁 Rural Oklahoma. My grandpa ( born in 1897) used to talk with my dad (born in 1927) about my generation in the 70s.. saying about the same thing... Grandpa looked at me and said Katy what would you do if you couldn't buy grocers??? I thought about it a minute and said I reckon I'd go fishing grandpa... He laughed.. and said shoot ! They will figure it out . 😂
@@7kinhomestead you will figure it out or natural selection happens . 😂 There's enough blame to go around on all sides . But folks aren't dumb.. they will figure out.... Eventually
I am interested in homesteading because I grew up on a farm, also interested in being off grid because of the cost of running electricity to where I am putting my house. 12-15k and for that cost I can just buy a nice solar system...
Thank you for sharing this stuff! I did find you guys from that first video :P It's really nice having shuch a to-the-point explanation for the craziness we've been dealt. Have been blessed of course - but it's important to recognize the truth of what we have been up against. Especially when looking forward to the future for our own kids. I believe, or maybe its just a really big hope 😅, that many of our generation recognize the importance of community and policies. Thank you for being a voice out in the open!
I know this doesn’t really have to do anything with the video you just made but I have a follow up comment from a few days ago about living out of an ice fishing trailer I should have added that I need to keep it warm when I’m gone at work for the day since I’ve got a dog and I want to make sure she stays warm while I’m gone. I knew about keeping the bottom cover for the most part. that’s why I chose a ice fishing trailer since they can be flush with the ground but I just can’t figure out what I need to do for my dog Love every video you post they are very helpful to every thing I hope to do in the future ❤
I'm at the tail end of Gen-X, over the past 10 years I think I have about $600k into my homestead, the land, the house, the outbuildings, the equipment / tools, the gardens & livestock, I work a full time job remote "I thank God & Elon for Starlink", and part-time job on the weekends when I can. Oh, wait, I also have another full time job taking care of the homestead and all the little lives that depend on me. On an average night, I am lucky if I get 4-5 hours of sleep, I wake up hours before the sun does, go do my chores, come in, sign in to work, at lunch I go out to feed animals / check on them, or collect veggies, eggs, or milk, and go back to work, I sign out at 5, go do my rounds again, or work on the many projects or repairs that need some love, I love this lifestyle, wouldn't change it, no complaints. For those who don't do it, they will never know what it's like and only know how to make assumptions, armchair bitch, and tell you how to drive from the back seat, or assume things are always the same as time goes on.
Man, that is a full schedule. I love my starlink too. I've organized here a little differently but I agree, it can be an unending amount of work. I think it just depends on how you want to go about things. Sounds like you have one hell of a set up.
@@7kinhomestead Agreed, I have automated / made things as easy as possible around here. But, some things you still need attention and care for. I also realize that all those little lives out on the property depend on me and we depend on them, so I like to make my rounds. But, I have embraced technology a lot and use it to make my life easier for sure. I also have the wife's help when I really need it. But, yes it really is unending till you die or scale back / quit. 😅 I'll die first.. I will admit I took on too much some years, I think we all do that sometimes. 😏
I still remember a live stream where I was talking about the 10th amendment and didn't fully have the correct definition of the word enumerated down then you sent me all the data and I read the federalist papers as a result. 😂
My wife and i DID have to each hold a full time along with selling plasma just to live 😂 It's insane to me that you used to be able to live comfortable on a single income
The so called "lack of skills" that us Gen Z have (suposedly), is something older generations (some) love to use as an argument against us. But I always respond saying that "whose responsability was to teach them?" Usually I get a head nod, a silent answer or they say "We had to be working all day, how were we supose to teach you?" Most of them were taught by their parents, specially hard skills. By the way, I'm not a natural english-speaker, just in case I've mispelled something.
I think you communicated perfectly. That is the argument I hear too. Most gen z parents are Gen x. So I always ask them which generation created the conditions under which you had to work all the time, established the economy under which the average household required 2 full time jobs in order to survive? That usually ends that conversation. 😂
That is key. How can i live comfy with very little money. Ive been praticing this hard. Even have land. Gotta figure out how to get something on it on the cheap.
The victim talk makes me want to puke. Quit blaming the system. The rules may have changed but the game is still playable. I talked to a guy today who coached his son to buy a piece of land a single wide on the outskirts of town 2 years ago. Be resourceful, learn to negotiate, find out how to get what you want within your budget. Break free of the popular scarcity mindset. 6 years ago i said I'm done not having what i want, and made a 10 year plan. This year closed on my 3rd home since then, i don't have car payments, I don't wonder if i can afford clothes for my kids, I don't wonder if we can eat well, I don't wonder when our next vacation will be. Above all, I'm not cursing the generations before me. Life is WAY too short for that. I'm not trying to belittle your struggles, but I was born in 89 which makes me a millennial, and if I could do it (trust me here) you can find a way too.
Well, if you're gonna puke, do it outside. 😂. I'm gonna assume 2 things by your comment. 1. that you are missing the context of the earlier video and 2. That you didn't catch the end of this one. All the things you said here are things I believe too. This video was an attempt to help folks who feel the way I described here to regain control of their lives. The video has been seen millions of times on other platforms and just got posted here. You seem like you genuinely are trying to encourage and help but I can tell you, for sure, the way you went about writing this comment is among the least effective ways to change hearts and minds. Nobody in history has ever changed their mind by being bludgeoned with someone else's truth and making someone wrong for what they think results in them digging in their heels and being "right" even when they're not. Congratulations on your success 🎉🎉🎉
@7kinhomestead You are correct that I haven't seen your other videos. I actually appreciated the video, but my comment was geared towards the section about how baby boomers were handed this golden era and they went and ruined it for everyone else in the future. I really don't care if those are your words or if you are regurgitating the comments of others, it's that message that I can't agree with. I'm ok if we agree or disagree, but for the sake of clarification it's the victim mentality that rubs me the wrong way, not you or your viewers. Have a good day.
@taylorsessions4143 I got what you're saying. Its not so much my words or someone else's. It's simply statistically true. Maybe not for the investor class but for everyone else. The point of the video was to say, ok, that's a truth so with that being the playing field on which the game is played, it's still your responsibility to win at it. My entire channel is about how to still get what you want out of life even in the face of economic struggles by going about it a different way. Acknowledging a person's struggles is not a victim mentality, it's a very effective way of helping a person let go of a victim mentality and get on with it.
I agree. Not only that, average productivity per hour is so far beyond what it was in the past due to technology that the work that's being done is worth far more. Time for a different game I suppose.
I think in some case they set up their kids but what I'm seeing is that most of the wealth of that generation is going to medical and life extending care. It should be interesting to see how that all goes down.
Interesting that you say this about Baby Boomers and Gen X. I was born in 1959, the cusp between Boomers and Gen X. Like you I had to have two or more jobs to pay my rent. I would pick stalls at a local barn on weekends, pack freight on weekday evenings, and clean rat cages for a laboratory weekdays. This I did for years. My friends lived a similar life. Interestingly enough most people I know, be they 87 years old or 30 years old, have lived this similar lifestyle. This weekend I watch my 30 year old neighbor and about 10 of her friends put up a straw bale house and stucco it. They have gone from friend's house to friend's house helping each other. For two days I heard nothing but happy talk. People really enjoying spending time together and getting lots of work done. My message to you is stop crying and try helping other and maybe they will help you.
I can say in no uncertain terms that if that is your message to me that you have no idea who I am and what I'm about. Not sure if you watched the whole video but if I were a betting man, I'd have money on you and the folks you described being in that third group I mentioned because a large swath of your generation doesn't think that way. Either way, my main message to you is that I preach building community as a necessity for this lifestyle and I speak at length about the way to accomplish that. You do it by personal contribution, by helping others. Your message may be new news to many, but it's a dilatante's first step to me. Good day.
hate to break it to you, but the people buying up property and renting it are overwhelmingly blackrock capital, citigroup, vanguard, and citiadel....not any regular person.
Although I believe the practice of private equity groups buying up single family homes is a massive problem and will get worse over time, the data doesn't support that idea. Those groups have historically made up roughly 4% of single family home sales including last year. Now, lets play on a hypothetical. If you were to arbitrarily group up the leaders of all the companies and sort them into generations, which generation would you think is overwhelmingly represented?
As a 34 year old, I’m stepping away from urban lifestyle and picking up some acre to homestead. It’s always welcoming to see the older generation understand how we feel about the cards we’ve been dealt.
I totally understand. I wish you the best of luck on your adventure.
Well, if you don't mind the winters you should check out Maine, lots of large parcels of undeveloped land around me in western Maine for sale and it's cheap most of the time. 🙂 Also, even better is New Hampshire just to the west, no income taxes, no sales taxes. If I could pickup my homestead and move 25 miles west to NH I would, but starting over at this point seems like a hard road. But, for someone just getting in to it, lots of opportunities available to make your dreams come true. You just have to roll up your sleeves and make it happen and don't listen to the naysayers.
@@VeritasOmniaVinculaVincit winters don’t bother me, I’m from Michigan and we get that cold where it hurts to breathe lol. There’s a lot of deals here too but are farther north and my jobs isn’t remote any more. Maine one of those states that are on my bucket list, hopefully I can get out there some day
I think I love your videos so much because you're so "real" and I think we'd get along well if our families ever met! Thanks for another great video, it's encouraging me to continue to work on my own channel.
That's very nice of you to say. Thank you. You're very welcome. Definitely keep working on your channel. We posted for over 10 years and one day, on TikTok, we were an overnight success. It can totally happen!! Good luck with your channel. O
31 yr old here. Freedom is my reason for wanting to homestead/farm. Been saving to start, grewup on 10 acres and thought I wanted a normal "city" lifestyle but quickly realizing this "cooperate" job is a dead end job and I wanna go back to the woods. There is no happiness here and thinking back to when i was the happiest it was when I was young and free and my hopes and dreams while knowing it takes a lot of work and dedication is that I can be self relient while hopefully having some sort of an income through it allowing me to not have this stressful job working for someone else essentially giving me the feeling of "freedom". Hopefully it makes sense to whoever reads this and i get no hate lol sounds better in my head than typing it out.
I think that's a fantastic goal. I wish you the best of luck on your adventure!! 🙏
Im 33, freedom and happiness are also the reason I want to homestead. Living in Canada though and wanting to stay in BC, its hard to find even raw land thats affordable.
I've heard that Canada can be difficult. I do know some folks that have done it though so I do know it's possible.
@7kinhomestead Its definitely possible, you just need to spend a lot of time looking for affordable land land and it can take a long time to find it.
Im hopeful that one day I can afford to homestead, at least enough land to be fully self reliant for my food production. I would hunt to supplement meat production as well, as im not sure if I would want to commit to raising even a few small cattle.
@Cryptlord9999 well, I wish you the best of luck with your adventure to attain that goal.
32 yrs old.
Built and moved onto my homestead at 25yrs old...and been building ever since!
That's awesome!! Its quite an adventure.
@7kinhomestead absolutely!
Started with the house, moved in.
Now it's aquaponic greenhouse, 15.5kw solar, walk in cooler and multiple outbuildings.
Lots of 16hr days, daylight till we'll past dark and so worth it to raise our children like this
@@themountainwizard Sounds like you and I live at the same homestead.. 🤣😅
@VeritasOmniaVinculaVincit 😄 🤣
I'm 34 and I'm interested in homesteading because I hate government bureaucracy because they steal our money and waste it, then laugh in our faces (lately literally), and as you said, boomers voted this government and it's tyrannical policies in (especially the surveillance state), and ultimately I just want freedom and to keep my money and not be hassled about stupid things.
I totally understand.
Unfortunately, the government doesn't make things easy for homesteaders and farmers, check the fed, state, and local ordinances of the property you plan on buying. It feels like there is a quite war on food going on. Also, with property taxes, you never really OWN your land, because if you don't pay they auction it away. It's disgusting. For every structure you put up, your taxes will go up, keep that in mind as you plan and build.
29 with a master's degree, wife & four children... in a 2 bedroom townhouse, making it work. Still in the dreaming phase about homesteading. I could probably really use the shoestring budget book. Thank you, friend.
That's awesome! So many people are in that same boat! If this lifestyle is what you want you can absolutely make it happen.
The younger end of gen x here, but i totally agree with all you just said. Got a decent start to the rat race in my young adult life but then recession hit my area hard, everyone i knew was impacted by it in some way. Knocked us on our butts, and put many of us on par with the younger generations. Got us thinking about how to live so it doesnt happen again. Been homesteading 3 years and keep getting knocked down...by the county telling us we cant do this and cant do that (thought this was a free county with an inalienable right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness... i guess i missed the part that says ' as long as you pay the county exorbitant fees to tell you your business'... and nightmare neighbors. Looking at moving and starting over. Just feels like all the cards are stacked against our success, and that of our kids, nieces and nephews.
Wow!! I'm so sorry that's happening to you. I say if starting over is the path of least resistance then starting over it is. I'm not sure if it something you can fight. I had a situation like that and made myself such a pain by finding all the things they had to do like answering letter and then organized a letter writing campaign. Those sorts of things and wouldn't you know it, it was not worth it to them to pursue me. Lol. It might be worth looking into what sorts of things like that that you can do to fight back. I wish you the best of luck either way.
@7kinhomestead I'm looking at it as an opportunity to re-do the things I would have done differently if I had known then what I know now... BUT, I do LOVE your out of the box ideas! I am definitely going to look into that. Have been doing a little bit of fighting back and digging into state and county rules already, so I'll put my thinking cap on and come up with ideas... THANK YOU!
Genx here and I really appreciate you sharing your experiences and look forward to diving into the homesteading world once my son graduates hs this June. Your vids have really helped me prep... cheers.
Thank you. I appreciate you saying that. I wish you the best of luck on your future adventure and if I can help, let me know.
Agreed, I too thank him for sharing!
I'm 41 and I'm selling my big beautiful cape cod on the golf course to live in a 3/2 mobile home on 6 acres with muscadines and pecan trees with my wife and kids. We've been out here for 4 months now. Learning who's who and what resources are available to us has been overwhelming. I was already good at carpentry but now I'm learning welding, logging and milling, I just shot and processed my first deer, made trades with neighbors for farm fresh eggs until we get our land situated. All that to say, I love unplugging from the matrix. 20 years of chasing money to be wiped out with nothibg to show for it but missed time with the family and putting everything else before then just trying to stay in the hamster wheel. It has been rocky, I'll start doing video to document our transition. Leaning into each other and our faith has been tested and continues to be strengthened. If you're thinking about it, do it. This is how we were made to live!
Man!! That is so amazing. Your story sounds a lot like ours. I wish you the absolute best of luck on your adventure!!
@@7kinhomestead your story hits home. I'm looking forward to your journey, I'm learning from you!
I don't care what other people think but from where I sit you're some kind of evil genius. Good work!
Thank you!! Muahahahahahahaahaha... (Cough cough). 😂
I'm a 47 yr old Gen X and can confirm that what you said is true. My family is only just now gearing up to repair and sell our California home so that we can gain acreage and proximity to nature on our own homestead. Our efforts here in Cali seem to be all for naught financially, it's just ridiculous to even stay above water at this point, so I'm glad to have been gifted by the algorithm with your videos. Seeing someone pulling off a homestead from less than nothing really boosts confidence levels, especially with so many channels that began their homesteads by dumping over half a million into it. Much success to you all!
I totally understand!! Its one of the things that always made me mad about homestead content. It made this lifestyle seem so unattainable. I'm glad the videos give you a different perspective. Thank you.
@@7kinhomesteadI’m 46 end of the x generations. In any case do the baby boomers who commented in your last thread understand solar power is getting cheaper every year and there is starlink and off grid air conditioning.
The technology makes off grid living nearly as comfortable as city life. If you can at least prepare all your own food.
Then with the hoa plague why buy a regular house in the suburbs?
Your common sense and intellect is above most folks....anymore... You keep teaching the truth. I will keep sharing your videos and eventually, hopefully, common sense will kick back in ... I'm 60 + grew up on a homestead.. you haven't said anything I disagree with.❤❤❤
I appreciate you saying that. I think that it's easier to have common sense when you live a few steps outside the noise. Out here, it's pretty quiet. 😂
@@7kinhomestead here where I am it's pretty quiet also.😁 Rural Oklahoma.
My grandpa ( born in 1897) used to talk with my dad (born in 1927) about my generation in the 70s.. saying about the same thing... Grandpa looked at me and said Katy what would you do if you couldn't buy grocers??? I thought about it a minute and said I reckon I'd go fishing grandpa... He laughed.. and said shoot ! They will figure it out . 😂
@KarenWahlenberg-pv7xz sounds like a gentleman and a scholar after my own heart. 😂
@@7kinhomestead Facts!
@@7kinhomestead you will figure it out or natural selection happens . 😂 There's enough blame to go around on all sides . But folks aren't dumb.. they will figure out.... Eventually
We are Homesteaders and love it
Awesome!! Pleased to meet you.
Im 25 and the only thing the government has taught me is to have nothing but distrust in the system and those who stand behind it.
I understand completely.
This man chose to speak the language of truth.
I do my best. Thanks!! 🙏
I'm 22 And first time coming across your vids and I think you hit the nail on the head!!! Gained a follower!
Well thanks and welcome to the homestead! 😁
I am interested in homesteading because I grew up on a farm, also interested in being off grid because of the cost of running electricity to where I am putting my house. 12-15k and for that cost I can just buy a nice solar system...
That's a great point. You're right, for the cost of running electricity to a new house, you could build a whole other structure!
Thank you for sharing this stuff! I did find you guys from that first video :P
It's really nice having shuch a to-the-point explanation for the craziness we've been dealt. Have been blessed of course - but it's important to recognize the truth of what we have been up against. Especially when looking forward to the future for our own kids. I believe, or maybe its just a really big hope 😅, that many of our generation recognize the importance of community and policies.
Thank you for being a voice out in the open!
You are very welcome!! Glad to help where I can.
I know this doesn’t really have to do anything with the video you just made but I have a follow up comment from a few days ago about living out of an ice fishing trailer I should have added that I need to keep it warm when I’m gone at work for the day since I’ve got a dog and I want to make sure she stays warm while I’m gone. I knew about keeping the bottom cover for the most part. that’s why I chose a ice fishing trailer since they can be flush with the ground but I just can’t figure out what I need to do for my dog
Love every video you post they are very helpful to every thing I hope to do in the future ❤
That's a good question. Let me put some thoughts into that.
@@7kinhomestead ok I will keep a eye out for your comment
Subbed. Looking forward to looking into your process 🥰
Sweet!! Welcome to the homestead!!
I'm at the tail end of Gen-X, over the past 10 years I think I have about $600k into my homestead, the land, the house, the outbuildings, the equipment / tools, the gardens & livestock, I work a full time job remote "I thank God & Elon for Starlink", and part-time job on the weekends when I can. Oh, wait, I also have another full time job taking care of the homestead and all the little lives that depend on me. On an average night, I am lucky if I get 4-5 hours of sleep, I wake up hours before the sun does, go do my chores, come in, sign in to work, at lunch I go out to feed animals / check on them, or collect veggies, eggs, or milk, and go back to work, I sign out at 5, go do my rounds again, or work on the many projects or repairs that need some love, I love this lifestyle, wouldn't change it, no complaints. For those who don't do it, they will never know what it's like and only know how to make assumptions, armchair bitch, and tell you how to drive from the back seat, or assume things are always the same as time goes on.
Man, that is a full schedule. I love my starlink too. I've organized here a little differently but I agree, it can be an unending amount of work. I think it just depends on how you want to go about things. Sounds like you have one hell of a set up.
@@7kinhomestead Agreed, I have automated / made things as easy as possible around here. But, some things you still need attention and care for. I also realize that all those little lives out on the property depend on me and we depend on them, so I like to make my rounds. But, I have embraced technology a lot and use it to make my life easier for sure. I also have the wife's help when I really need it. But, yes it really is unending till you die or scale back / quit. 😅 I'll die first.. I will admit I took on too much some years, I think we all do that sometimes. 😏
@VeritasOmniaVinculaVincit that's the truth for sure. 😂
Well said. I’m actually at the tail end of the boomers and I have no problems with what you said.
Keep on doin it hat you’re doin!
Thank you!! I appreciate that.
I guess I'm in that third group
Absolutely!!
I still remember a live stream where I was talking about the 10th amendment and didn't fully have the correct definition of the word enumerated down then you sent me all the data and I read the federalist papers as a result. 😂
My wife and i DID have to each hold a full time along with selling plasma just to live 😂
It's insane to me that you used to be able to live comfortable on a single income
Yup!! Its crazy!! 🤣
The so called "lack of skills" that us Gen Z have (suposedly), is something older generations (some) love to use as an argument against us.
But I always respond saying that "whose responsability was to teach them?"
Usually I get a head nod, a silent answer or they say "We had to be working all day, how were we supose to teach you?"
Most of them were taught by their parents, specially hard skills.
By the way, I'm not a natural english-speaker, just in case I've mispelled something.
I think you communicated perfectly. That is the argument I hear too. Most gen z parents are Gen x. So I always ask them which generation created the conditions under which you had to work all the time, established the economy under which the average household required 2 full time jobs in order to survive? That usually ends that conversation. 😂
I don't make any internet money 😂
I had been making videos for 10 years before I did and then, it's not that much but it helps.
That is key. How can i live comfy with very little money. Ive been praticing this hard. Even have land. Gotta figure out how to get something on it on the cheap.
Its totally doable. Depending on where you are a container home is a great option for cheap structure.
The victim talk makes me want to puke. Quit blaming the system. The rules may have changed but the game is still playable. I talked to a guy today who coached his son to buy a piece of land a single wide on the outskirts of town 2 years ago. Be resourceful, learn to negotiate, find out how to get what you want within your budget. Break free of the popular scarcity mindset. 6 years ago i said I'm done not having what i want, and made a 10 year plan. This year closed on my 3rd home since then, i don't have car payments, I don't wonder if i can afford clothes for my kids, I don't wonder if we can eat well, I don't wonder when our next vacation will be. Above all, I'm not cursing the generations before me. Life is WAY too short for that. I'm not trying to belittle your struggles, but I was born in 89 which makes me a millennial, and if I could do it (trust me here) you can find a way too.
Well, if you're gonna puke, do it outside. 😂. I'm gonna assume 2 things by your comment. 1. that you are missing the context of the earlier video and 2. That you didn't catch the end of this one. All the things you said here are things I believe too. This video was an attempt to help folks who feel the way I described here to regain control of their lives. The video has been seen millions of times on other platforms and just got posted here. You seem like you genuinely are trying to encourage and help but I can tell you, for sure, the way you went about writing this comment is among the least effective ways to change hearts and minds. Nobody in history has ever changed their mind by being bludgeoned with someone else's truth and making someone wrong for what they think results in them digging in their heels and being "right" even when they're not. Congratulations on your success 🎉🎉🎉
@7kinhomestead You are correct that I haven't seen your other videos. I actually appreciated the video, but my comment was geared towards the section about how baby boomers were handed this golden era and they went and ruined it for everyone else in the future. I really don't care if those are your words or if you are regurgitating the comments of others, it's that message that I can't agree with. I'm ok if we agree or disagree, but for the sake of clarification it's the victim mentality that rubs me the wrong way, not you or your viewers. Have a good day.
@taylorsessions4143 I got what you're saying. Its not so much my words or someone else's. It's simply statistically true. Maybe not for the investor class but for everyone else. The point of the video was to say, ok, that's a truth so with that being the playing field on which the game is played, it's still your responsibility to win at it. My entire channel is about how to still get what you want out of life even in the face of economic struggles by going about it a different way. Acknowledging a person's struggles is not a victim mentality, it's a very effective way of helping a person let go of a victim mentality and get on with it.
I’m gonna step out in a limb and assume you’re from the city.
Originally, yes. We've been out here for twelve years now.
The current generation literally works more than medieval pesants but we are somehow lazy make it make sense
I agree. Not only that, average productivity per hour is so far beyond what it was in the past due to technology that the work that's being done is worth far more. Time for a different game I suppose.
No, everything they did was for self. Most of them. Atleast they set kids up though.
I think in some case they set up their kids but what I'm seeing is that most of the wealth of that generation is going to medical and life extending care. It should be interesting to see how that all goes down.
Interesting that you say this about Baby Boomers and Gen X. I was born in 1959, the cusp between Boomers and Gen X.
Like you I had to have two or more jobs to pay my rent. I would pick stalls at a local barn on weekends, pack freight on weekday evenings, and clean rat cages for a laboratory weekdays. This I did for years. My friends lived a similar life.
Interestingly enough most people I know, be they 87 years old or 30 years old, have lived this similar lifestyle.
This weekend I watch my 30 year old neighbor and about 10 of her friends put up a straw bale house and stucco it. They have gone from friend's house to friend's house helping each other.
For two days I heard nothing but happy talk. People really enjoying spending time together and getting lots of work done.
My message to you is stop crying and try helping other and maybe they will help you.
I can say in no uncertain terms that if that is your message to me that you have no idea who I am and what I'm about. Not sure if you watched the whole video but if I were a betting man, I'd have money on you and the folks you described being in that third group I mentioned because a large swath of your generation doesn't think that way. Either way, my main message to you is that I preach building community as a necessity for this lifestyle and I speak at length about the way to accomplish that. You do it by personal contribution, by helping others. Your message may be new news to many, but it's a dilatante's first step to me. Good day.
hate to break it to you, but the people buying up property and renting it are overwhelmingly blackrock capital, citigroup, vanguard, and citiadel....not any regular person.
Although I believe the practice of private equity groups buying up single family homes is a massive problem and will get worse over time, the data doesn't support that idea. Those groups have historically made up roughly 4% of single family home sales including last year. Now, lets play on a hypothetical. If you were to arbitrarily group up the leaders of all the companies and sort them into generations, which generation would you think is overwhelmingly represented?