GOODBYE BILL – CROSSING ANOTHER RECURRING BILL OFF OF OUR LIST AND BECOMING MORE FINANCIALLY FREE!

Very many people these days are under some heavy financial burdens.

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Far too often, they voluntarily enter into this bondage. A general “fast food” mentality seems to be a common culprit. Many people simply want what they want NOW! Even if it’ll cost them extra in the end, they’ll choose to take what they can get now and then deal with the rest later.

Whether it is credit card debt, student loans, car loans, mortgages, or any number of other forms of debt bondage, many people will gladly choose to pay extra in interest just to get something now. They seem to lack the patience to first save up until they can afford such things, and instead choose what many consider to be the “easy way.” That so-called easy way may very well enslave them for the rest of their lives.

"I'M OUT!"

This is part of why we sold our house and thus ended our mortgage. It is part of why my truck looks like a hunk of junk. It is part of why we moved up into the Ozarks. And it is part of why we are choosing the lifestyle that we do.

The heavy yoke of burden that debt bondage brings has become an all too familiar occurrence in many modern societies. The common people add bill after bill, and expense after expense, to their monthly list of financial obligations and then struggle form paycheck to paycheck. Some even head to predatory “cash advance” businesses which take advantage of their desperate situation and often make matters even worse with additional interest charges.

Credit has replaced cash, almost everyone is in debt, the common man pays out all that he owns, and the rich get richer. Finally Mom and Dad die and the children think that they finally get the house, but the fact of the matter is that Mom and Dad never owned the house, the bank did. In fact, that bank will make many times over what that house is worth, and family after family will financially enslave itself to pretend that they “own” it.

Financial slavery may sound better than actual slavery, but when hour after hour, day after day, month after month, and year after year people have to slave away their lives just to meet their financial obligations, I have a hard time actually calling it “financial slavery.”

WAKE UP PARENTS

Too many parents are so busy trying to “make ends meet” that they can never focus long enough to free themselves from this twisted trap and then they allow their children to follow in their poor footsteps, and the next generation is enslaved.

There is a reason that we have bought our land outright. There is a reason that we will be building a house out of pocket. There is a reason why we are choosing to grow and raise a lot of our own food. We would prefer to be free, or at least as free as we can get in this country and society.

I’ve got better things to do than spend 40+ hours a week at an office across town. I don’t need to pay for thirty years just to have a house now. I don’t need to burden myself with car payments when a vehicle that I can afford can still max out the speed limit and transport my family. I have no need to work several hours every week to purchase some tainted shell of a “food stuff” at the local store when I can grow real food just by dropping a few seeds into the soil.

I have a God to serve, a wife to love, and a family to raise. These things are much easier to accomplish when I am free to be with them.

Anyway, we finally cleared out our storage unit and are using the shipping container that we purchased a while back to a greater capacity. There is still more room in the container, but now we need $75 less each month, because we have forever crossed the storage unit bill off of our list.

ONE SHOT

Ultimately, we get one shot in this life. I would highly recommend that you figure out what your real goal is in life. I know my goal, as it has been revealed to me, and I am hard at work to be obedient and make it a reality.

As I have shared before, if you asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I’d say “NO!” I am not going to be some spoke in a wheel or a gear in the society that has been designed to turn me into a cash cow consumer so someone else can enjoy their life while I slave away in mine. I simply want to be free to be a child of God, a husband to @mama-pepper, and a father to my @little-peppers. I will not be defined by what I do to earn money, but by deeper and purer things.

Obviously, it felt good to eliminate another expense in our lives. The way that I see it, if I actually own some land and a house, then I’ll need a lot less money than a lot of people. If I have no student loans, car payments, credit card bills or debts, then a lot less of my time will need to be spent working. If we grow and raise the majority of our own food and take care of a lot of our actual needs ourselves, then that’s even less expenses that we will have. Perhaps, I won’t need to leave my family so much, work so hard, and miss out on so much of my life then.

Trust me, we are still in the process and in the transition, working towards that goal, but, we have a goal, and we are working on it.

As always, I’m @papa-pepper and here’s the proof:

proof-of-emptied-storage-unit

Until next time…

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