Up until a few weeks ago, I could challenge anyone to rummage through my cabinets in an attempt to find a single non-organic product. I would have bet money they wouldn't find anything. That is until I created a goal and in an attempt to save money I started buying a few conventional products. The first thing to go was my organic freshly ground coffee, so rich and delicious. The first few pots of non-organic coffee tasted life feet to me. I am starting to wonder if it is worth the savings.
There are several foods as well as ingredients I refuse to put in my body that are not organic. No matter how tough the economy is you will never see me waiting in line to order off the McDonald's dollar menu! I will not eat any corn, soy, or dairy products that are not organic, I don't eat meat so I have that going for me! I will not eat, and no one should eat anything where the label says hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated. In a nut shell hydrogenated oils are trans fats, trans fats are majorly toxic the human body. The less processed foods you consume, the better! Recently I have also purchased a few conventionally grown produce instead of organic.
So what am I saving for? I have a quaint little home in the city, it's perfect size for myself and my small little family for now. I am very grateful I have a home, and happy with where I live except for my neighbors, and the fact I can not have live stock. My daddy is a local truck driver who often hauls dirt into new home additions, that he sends me through to look at homes. A good amount of the time, the homes are way above my price range. He sent me through an addition with a beautiful home in my range, which sent me on a house hunting frenzy. Daddy really wants me to build, I was iffy about building until I found the perfect floor plan for my hippie lifestyle and fell madly in love.
I thought I wanted to live in the city until a recent visit to my Aunt and Uncles home in the country on land. The place is amazing! They have chickens and guineas, wild deer that they feed. I found eggs in the chicken coop and lit up like a child on Christmas morning! Free range for their animals is an understatement, they rome all over the property. I thought to myself, "I want this life!"
To sum it up I am saving for a house on land where I can have live stock and a huge garden, a mud room where I can shuck my boots off after being outside, and also a place to make my home made concoctions. I want it so bad, I have only had one day off in the month of March, and will continue to work that hard to reach my goal!
Due to my overwhelming work schedule I have been unable to partake in my hobbies recently. Today I worked only a half day and was able to bake an organic coffee cake, make tooth paste, and make dishwasher soap! I couldn't be happier, I feel more like myself today than I have all month!!
I know what I am dreaming of, and will work very hard for it, that being said no matter how bad you want something, never lose site of the little things that make you happy along the way! I am reminding myself as well as everyone else all things in moderation weather it is food, work, or saving money. Remember to make time for the things and people you love!
You haven't posted in quite a while, hope you're not done.
ReplyDeleteThis is a similar goal to my own. When I moved back to OK from Phoenix about a year ago, it was to get away from "big city life". My long term goal is to have a house with land where I can grow/raise my own food sources. My reasoning is a bit different from yours, but you have great ideas which broaden my spectrum of possibilities. I'm not very good at this yet, but I'm working on it.