I was just passing on what I was taught during my situation, and I also think we need to share the harshness of life, as well as the wonderful.
Let me tell you the good part.
This all started in 1996. That's when we had to move, June of 1996.
While my husband was working again, I knew it was not going to last, so I took every dime I could get my hands on, and saved it for a huge Garage.
I had gotten a property for $1500.00 and wanted a Garage on it in case we needed a place to live.
Only months before my husband had his NEXT heart surgery and strokes, we had made payments on a Garage, and by November of 1999 the Garage was delivered to our property, and it was there for "just in case."
By then we were just trying to live. No money things were bad.
Then it changed.
After getting Social Security things were a little better, but I changed.
We still had medical bills, and that's when I decided it was time to make a dime scream before I let go of it.
We were not only going to be OK, we were going to have a home again, and we were going to have one that, JUST MET OUR NEEDS, nothing fancy, and we would not owe anything on it, no matter what.
Rooms can be smaller when you have lived in a motel room, so our home would be really small too, but free of debt.
I started out by getting electric installed on our property, and it was connected to the garage, and although we lived in a small one bedroom apt. we had property to go to, a pier to crab off of, and a garage that was a home away from home. I have watched the wonderful crooked maple in my yard grow, planted some trees, and enjoy it so much that I can't wait to start the house.
I just had the garage cleared out, and within the next couple of weeks we are having it insulated, and drywalled so that we CAN LIVE IN IT!!!!
It has a new refrigerator I got about 3 years ago, a porta poty, carpet, and will be going up on a new foundation in the spring.
We plan on using it to watch the house being built. We do have some of the materials, and we are installing a new floor when the insulation goes in, along with some larger windows.
It's so weird to my family, they just say, no, no, no. You can't live in that!
My attitude is, Just watch me.
You see, all of my brothers and sisters, but one brother and I, are VERY WELL OFF! and I mean VERY WELL OFF.
I can't help but laugh at them when they look so perplexed, they just can't understand it all. They get scared to death to even thing of the words "Roughing It"
You should have seen them learning to use a porta potty when we all met at the property for a day of crabbing and a picnic.!!!!!!!!!
We have come from a pit, to anything we want. It may not be what my family is used to, but it will be ours, and will represent my husband and myself.
It will have some of his kind of memory things in it, and some of mine.
We get to pick what we want in our home, for the first time in 43 years.
We had 4 children at home, and they ran the show. Now it's our turn.
Can you even think of not having to pay car payments, a mortgage, or credit card bills. Now I can, and it is GREAT! Mind you, I do have to put away a little each month for when we need a new car, but we have a way to go yet, and a house to build.
This spring my Yard Man is going to help me plant more trees and a garden on the new property (next to the one I have now) I purchased this past June. (Sure cost a lot more than the first one)
Last payment Feb. 1st. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wooo raaaa!!!!
(She let me pay cash by the month) !!!! God bless this woman.
I would say, that all in all, things are starting to look up. Especially when only a few years ago I was in a motel with $121.00 a week to live on.
Below is my Garage, it's getting a paint job, and a new roof, it looks a lot better than the photo, and it will be my temp. home for about 6 months.
The good things sometimes come in really small pieces, sometimes in big blasts, but we must remember, THAT WE WILL SURVIVE. We can do anything, even when it's really hard to believe it at the time.
My ancestors came to St. Mary's county from Ireland, and I guess some of their stuborn Irish ways rubbed off on me. I won't ever look back, I won't ever give up, and after all, I get to live in the finest County, in the finest State of them all, Maryland!!!
You can't ask for more than that, unless of course, it's some hot steamy crabs!!!!
Let me tell you the good part.
This all started in 1996. That's when we had to move, June of 1996.
While my husband was working again, I knew it was not going to last, so I took every dime I could get my hands on, and saved it for a huge Garage.
I had gotten a property for $1500.00 and wanted a Garage on it in case we needed a place to live.
Only months before my husband had his NEXT heart surgery and strokes, we had made payments on a Garage, and by November of 1999 the Garage was delivered to our property, and it was there for "just in case."
By then we were just trying to live. No money things were bad.
Then it changed.
After getting Social Security things were a little better, but I changed.
We still had medical bills, and that's when I decided it was time to make a dime scream before I let go of it.
We were not only going to be OK, we were going to have a home again, and we were going to have one that, JUST MET OUR NEEDS, nothing fancy, and we would not owe anything on it, no matter what.
Rooms can be smaller when you have lived in a motel room, so our home would be really small too, but free of debt.
I started out by getting electric installed on our property, and it was connected to the garage, and although we lived in a small one bedroom apt. we had property to go to, a pier to crab off of, and a garage that was a home away from home. I have watched the wonderful crooked maple in my yard grow, planted some trees, and enjoy it so much that I can't wait to start the house.
I just had the garage cleared out, and within the next couple of weeks we are having it insulated, and drywalled so that we CAN LIVE IN IT!!!!
It has a new refrigerator I got about 3 years ago, a porta poty, carpet, and will be going up on a new foundation in the spring.
We plan on using it to watch the house being built. We do have some of the materials, and we are installing a new floor when the insulation goes in, along with some larger windows.
It's so weird to my family, they just say, no, no, no. You can't live in that!
My attitude is, Just watch me.
You see, all of my brothers and sisters, but one brother and I, are VERY WELL OFF! and I mean VERY WELL OFF.
I can't help but laugh at them when they look so perplexed, they just can't understand it all. They get scared to death to even thing of the words "Roughing It"
You should have seen them learning to use a porta potty when we all met at the property for a day of crabbing and a picnic.!!!!!!!!!
We have come from a pit, to anything we want. It may not be what my family is used to, but it will be ours, and will represent my husband and myself.
It will have some of his kind of memory things in it, and some of mine.
We get to pick what we want in our home, for the first time in 43 years.
We had 4 children at home, and they ran the show. Now it's our turn.
Can you even think of not having to pay car payments, a mortgage, or credit card bills. Now I can, and it is GREAT! Mind you, I do have to put away a little each month for when we need a new car, but we have a way to go yet, and a house to build.
This spring my Yard Man is going to help me plant more trees and a garden on the new property (next to the one I have now) I purchased this past June. (Sure cost a lot more than the first one)
Last payment Feb. 1st. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wooo raaaa!!!!
(She let me pay cash by the month) !!!! God bless this woman.
I would say, that all in all, things are starting to look up. Especially when only a few years ago I was in a motel with $121.00 a week to live on.
Below is my Garage, it's getting a paint job, and a new roof, it looks a lot better than the photo, and it will be my temp. home for about 6 months.
The good things sometimes come in really small pieces, sometimes in big blasts, but we must remember, THAT WE WILL SURVIVE. We can do anything, even when it's really hard to believe it at the time.
My ancestors came to St. Mary's county from Ireland, and I guess some of their stuborn Irish ways rubbed off on me. I won't ever look back, I won't ever give up, and after all, I get to live in the finest County, in the finest State of them all, Maryland!!!
You can't ask for more than that, unless of course, it's some hot steamy crabs!!!!
soMDlady1 you are a true inspiration!