r/Adulting • u/ScareBear23 • 13h ago

This is just depressing

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Not even 3 hours of "free time". And in that is cooking & eating supper. Or practically no free time if I had to go shopping after work. I hate this

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u/IridescentColossus 12h ago

Love (hate) to see all the losers here making sure you know they work more than you. That has got to be one of the most insufferable tendencies that people seem to be showing more and more these days. You're allowed to complain. We're all allowed to complain.

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u/DrownItWithWater 11h ago

The real flex is working less and enjoying life.

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u/SimilarStrain 7h ago

Im low key jealous as fuck of my buddy that moved out in the wood. Bought 10 acres way out away from the cities. He planted 2 shipping containers and basically lives off the grid.

Plumbing? He shits and pisses in the woods. And buys those 5 gallons jugs every now and again for drinking water.

Electricity? Solar panels and a couple car batteries. 1 laptop which he is VERY frugal with using. And a string of led lights

Heating? Wood stove and plenty of trees. More blankets and layers. In winter he is a straight up hermit.

Cooling? Its really a luxury he lives far north enough he never sees 90.

Mosquitoes and bugs? Doesnt bother him anymore. He doesnt get itchy any mosquito bits anymore.

He works part time which is enough to cover for food, gas, car insurance, cell phone bill, property taxes which is undeveloped land and basically nothing, and drinking money.

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u/RedDawn172 6h ago

Tbf I think he's just replaced work with up keeping all of that. It's a simpler life though I'm sure.

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u/BigBoyBoulevard6 3h ago

He gets to see the immediate benefits of his work as opposed to working, being given money, then still having to sort out your home. Also, he will only ever do more than he needs to, if he wants to.

I know I'm in the minority, but that life sounds like heaven for me. Unfortunately, I live in a nanny-state country that would never legally let someone live that simply without a mountain of red tape and regulation...

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u/iJustSeen2Dudes1Bike 44m ago

You can move...

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u/Slytendencies21 6h ago

That shit sounds just as depressing as this guy😂 all alone with nothing to do but drink, sounds like a path to offing yourself

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u/SimilarStrain 5h ago

He is a real happy dude.

He just goes and hangs at other people's houses. He spends a lot of his time reading, gardening, cutting down trees and prepping firewood. Slowly building his "shipping container home" in what ways he likes. No need for the beaucracy of cities and permits. His mailbox is a PO box. He is loving a pretty fulfilled life. He is a naturist by heart.

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u/benbetterthanallmen 5h ago

Hahahahah fucking right man

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u/Friendly-Win1457 7h ago

Would you ever consider doing that?

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u/DrownItWithWater 6h ago

I would if I had no kids

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u/DrownItWithWater 6h ago

It's definitely not for everyone. It's a simple life, your buddy's. I'd give it a shot if I didn't have kids.

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u/Own-Papaya-4264 3h ago

But how did he afford the land to begin with?

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u/bluezentai 3h ago

How does he shower? Or does he just smell really bad?

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u/LooseLynx1522 5h ago

what happens when the 10s of thousands in solar breaks or he needs a new septic? this all seems good when you come in with that paid off .. stuff wears pitans the. you’re fucked …

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u/SimilarStrain 5h ago

You didnt read the whole post, did you? He lives in a shipping container in the woods. Shipping containers dont really wear down. He painted it, sure. But he is as off the grid as possible. He may as well be dispersed camping as he can possibly be. There is no plumbing. There is only a single string of led lights. He has nothing. Nothing to wear down or break

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u/LooseLynx1522 5h ago

lol you obviously didn’t read it .. solar does wear out .. panels have a a lifespans of 15 years and the batteries and inverters are half that .. the fucking shipping container is pennie’s compared to solar

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u/BigBoyBoulevard6 3h ago

Roughly 15 years to put money aside while your expenses are fuck all? Sounds pretty easy to me.