FUNCTIONAL CRAFT

The average American spends 75-80% of their take home pay on three areas:

8/8/2013

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  •   FOOD (Dining out fast food included)
  • HOUSING (Mortgage/Rent, Utilities, Repairs, etc..)
  • TRANSPORTATION (Payments, Gas, Tolls, Parking, Insurance)

That leaves a whopping 20% for everything else.  So what if you could build a smaller mortgage free home, or bake your own bread and make your own wine, plant a food forest or go down to one car and and a bike or move to an area that is pedestrian?  What if your children's amusements were real and not virtual?  (Still working on this one here.)   I think life would have a sort of luxurious poverty to it and I think it would be just beautiful. 

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    I am Permaculture Designer, certified by Permaculture Research Institute of Australia.  I am also homeschool mother to six wonderful people and co-owner with my cohorts of Functional Craft Family Farm.

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