We've lived in the South for a little over a year now and have decided that we're here to stay. All our family is here and it just makes since to us. So we've decided to start thinking about buying our first home. We are in our early 30's and by some peoples standards we are way behind in the normal american life. When Hubbs and I met 7 years ago we where both kinda wild and neither one of us was really ready to "make roots". Even when we had Izzy 4 years ago we where still in no real hurry to jump on the home ownership bandwagon. What we decided to do instead was make sure that we could be debt free and learn to live without credit cards. So we worked hard and last April we got to do the "We're Debt Free" scream. Which turned out to be very good timing since Hubbs lost his job just a few months later. All of which leads us to living in the south and buying our first home. We have been causally looking around to see if we could find an area that we really love. Well, we found it. We also found what could very well be our dream home. It's a home we could see living in the rest of our lives and I think we could make quite an amazing homestead out of it. We have 1 BIG problem though. Living on part time wages supporting a family of 4 for the last year has emptied our bank accounts to nearly zero. Also carrying massive consumer debt for so long did quite a number on our credit. So we're starting from scratch. We're aiming to save 30,000$ by this coming spring. Wish us luck! I'll post our progress.
Do you own a house? If so, how long did it take you to save for it?
Thursday, August 25, 2011
How this all began
A few years ago, after the birth of my first child - Izzy, I had a sort of awakening. I started thinking about the world we live in in a much deeper way. After a little thinking Hubbs and I decided to change the way we live. We started going "green". We did all the normal "green" stuff. We started recycling, using cloth diapers, buying used instead of new when possible, being mindful of the second word in the common "green" saying "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle". So we got good at that and then realized that we where spending TONs of green trying to BE green.
So I learned to coupon.
I'm proud to say I got pretty good at it. Then the economy started to hiccup. We realized that going to the store every week might not be an option as we struggled to keep enough food in the pantry till the next payday.
So we started stockpiling.
We started small and worked our way up to a 2 month food supply. And we did it for pennies on the dollar. Then baby 2 came along and our world flipped upside down. Hubbs lost his job 2 weeks before our very sick baby was born. After an 8 day stay in the NICU baby Elle came home. With nothing but our emergency fund and Hubbs part time job keeping us afloat we decided to move 2000 miles cross country to be near our family. Hubbs quickly got a part time job. While looking for full time work and realizing just how long it might take we decided to start stockpiling with a passion. We built up a 3 month supply of everything as quickly as we could. We soon realized how unprepared we where for anything other than a temporary money shortage. About 2 months ago Hubbs finally found a full time job and we decided it was finally time to start putting our desire to better care for ourselves and our future into action.
And now we've begun prepping.
We hope to take all the knowledge we gain and use it to set up a self sustainable homestead. Our 5 year goal is to be able to provide for 90% of our needs ourselves.
This blog will be about our adventures on the way to that 5 year goal. Thanks for visiting and I hope you have the desire to return again and maybe join in on our journey to living a truly self sustaining life.
So I learned to coupon.
I'm proud to say I got pretty good at it. Then the economy started to hiccup. We realized that going to the store every week might not be an option as we struggled to keep enough food in the pantry till the next payday.
So we started stockpiling.
We started small and worked our way up to a 2 month food supply. And we did it for pennies on the dollar. Then baby 2 came along and our world flipped upside down. Hubbs lost his job 2 weeks before our very sick baby was born. After an 8 day stay in the NICU baby Elle came home. With nothing but our emergency fund and Hubbs part time job keeping us afloat we decided to move 2000 miles cross country to be near our family. Hubbs quickly got a part time job. While looking for full time work and realizing just how long it might take we decided to start stockpiling with a passion. We built up a 3 month supply of everything as quickly as we could. We soon realized how unprepared we where for anything other than a temporary money shortage. About 2 months ago Hubbs finally found a full time job and we decided it was finally time to start putting our desire to better care for ourselves and our future into action.
And now we've begun prepping.
We hope to take all the knowledge we gain and use it to set up a self sustainable homestead. Our 5 year goal is to be able to provide for 90% of our needs ourselves.
This blog will be about our adventures on the way to that 5 year goal. Thanks for visiting and I hope you have the desire to return again and maybe join in on our journey to living a truly self sustaining life.
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