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Re: Home building/living suggestions wanted.One thing I especially like about where we are is that the closest grocery store is 25 miles away... and it's a glorified convenience store (really high priced... we rarely shop there). Any "real" services are an hour drive one-way away. This geography situation forces us to plan ahead and reduces impulse buying to basically nill... as well as reducing eating out to like never. When we go shopping (which happens every couple of months), we have a shopping list, and a route planned. I figure over the past 3+ decades, this has likely saved our household $100 - $200 per week on average ($150K - $300K total), and reduced our solid waste stream and stuff piles to almost nothing, and has likely kept some-odd inches off my belt line.The down side is that I suspect we're not very hip... we likely have no idea what the latest style is.
Re: Home building/living suggestions wanted.
One thing I especially like about where we are is that the closest grocery store is 25 miles away... and it's a glorified convenience store (really high priced... we rarely shop there). Any "real" services are an hour drive one-way away. This geography situation forces us to plan ahead and reduces impulse buying to basically nill... as well as reducing eating out to like never. When we go shopping (which happens every couple of months), we have a shopping list, and a route planned. I figure over the past 3+ decades, this has likely saved our household $100 - $200 per week on average ($150K - $300K total), and reduced our solid waste stream and stuff piles to almost nothing, and has likely kept some-odd inches off my belt line.
The down side is that I suspect we're not very hip... we likely have no idea what the latest style is.
