Comments on: The top 10 advantages of low-rent living http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/low-rent-living/ Make Yourself and Your Business Happy At Work Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:56:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Magnus Hammar http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/low-rent-living/#comment-259830 Magnus Hammar Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:31:42 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/low-rent-living/#comment-259830 Even though 6-7 years have passed since you posted this article - it´s still so very much true! And I wish that I could go and live after these devices, but I cant´t ... I am afarid. I have to live my life all over again, and then maybe! Even though 6-7 years have passed since you posted this article – it´s still so very much true! And I wish that I could go and live after these devices, but I cant´t … I am afarid. I have to live my life all over again, and then maybe!

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]]> By: Maria http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/low-rent-living/#comment-256631 Maria Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:42:45 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/low-rent-living/#comment-256631 Great article. Like Kristina, we found ourselves in the American "nightmare", living paycheck to paycheck as indentured servants and maxing our credit cards to afford our home. It was not entirely our fault as a series of very unfortunate financial events occurred in our lives (think "worse case scenario"). We sold that home last summer (June 2010) and are now renting a small 2BR apartment (yes, with two children who -- God forbid -- are sharing a room). We are much much happier as a family. We recently looked at purchasing another home that caught our eye, but the price was at the very upper end of what we might could afford. In discussing it, our children overheard us and it was our 8-yr-old son who begged us not to buy a home that was expensive again. See, our children are enjoying having stress-free parents who are beginning to enjoy life again, more so than they enjoy a large home with no one ever there b/c everyone is working to give them the "best" - and still barely making it. It's a myth that children need their own "space" or their own "yard". We had it and were all miserable (due to the financial strain that no everyone may endure). Children need happy parents and a happy home. We are a financially AND emotionally healthier family now. Great article. Like Kristina, we found ourselves in the American “nightmare”, living paycheck to paycheck as indentured servants and maxing our credit cards to afford our home. It was not entirely our fault as a series of very unfortunate financial events occurred in our lives (think “worse case scenario”). We sold that home last summer (June 2010) and are now renting a small 2BR apartment (yes, with two children who — God forbid — are sharing a room). We are much much happier as a family.

We recently looked at purchasing another home that caught our eye, but the price was at the very upper end of what we might could afford. In discussing it, our children overheard us and it was our 8-yr-old son who begged us not to buy a home that was expensive again. See, our children are enjoying having stress-free parents who are beginning to enjoy life again, more so than they enjoy a large home with no one ever there b/c everyone is working to give them the “best” – and still barely making it.

It’s a myth that children need their own “space” or their own “yard”. We had it and were all miserable (due to the financial strain that no everyone may endure). Children need happy parents and a happy home. We are a financially AND emotionally healthier family now.

]]> By: Adel http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/low-rent-living/#comment-255955 Adel Sat, 14 May 2011 08:38:53 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/low-rent-living/#comment-255955 Debit Free= Freedom this the simple equation for happy life. you plan your life to spent only a part of your income and keep another part for emergancies. Debit Free= Freedom
this the simple equation for happy life.
you plan your life to spent only a part of your income and keep another part for emergancies.

]]> By: Scrappy http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/low-rent-living/#comment-255601 Scrappy Sat, 09 Apr 2011 03:36:51 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/low-rent-living/#comment-255601 Update. Got downsized in July 2010 since my last last post. That company was going nowhere. Gross mismanagement. Within 3 weeks of the layoff, a different department in the company I originally left...to go for that ground floor opportunity...contracted me as a Senior UNIX Administrator...a job I do not 100% know because I was a software developer, but I was more than capable of picking up the missing pieces quickly due to having some experience doing that job during development. Best thing that ever happened to me. I am truly happy again. I was hired full-time within two months, doing a job I love and getting an appropriate salary because they appreciated my skills and knew I added value because of my quick learning ability and domain-specific knowledge of their business. Our disposable income is now being used to support some family that has fallen on hard times recently due to their unemployment. They get to keep their houses with the extra help we provide and keep the roof over our nieces' and nephews' heads. We still have enough money left-over to sponsor some dogs at the local shelter until their adoption. I feel great. It's the best thing we ever did. We get to help a lot of family that has not been so fortunate due to the liberation of our excess. Alex, I never realized how indentured I had become to the system...and how much we could help others with a simple change to our living habits. Our efforts allow us to help family members under duress because our lifestyle doesn't eat it all up, and I owe it all to your insight. Thank you. Update. Got downsized in July 2010 since my last last post. That company was going nowhere. Gross mismanagement.

Within 3 weeks of the layoff, a different department in the company I originally left…to go for that ground floor opportunity…contracted me as a Senior UNIX Administrator…a job I do not 100% know because I was a software developer, but I was more than capable of picking up the missing pieces quickly due to having some experience doing that job during development.

Best thing that ever happened to me.

I am truly happy again. I was hired full-time within two months, doing a job I love and getting an appropriate salary because they appreciated my skills and knew I added value because of my quick learning ability and domain-specific knowledge of their business.

Our disposable income is now being used to support some family that has fallen on hard times recently due to their unemployment. They get to keep their houses with the extra help we provide and keep the roof over our nieces’ and nephews’ heads. We still have enough money left-over to sponsor some dogs at the local shelter until their adoption. I feel great.

It’s the best thing we ever did. We get to help a lot of family that has not been so fortunate due to the liberation of our excess.

Alex, I never realized how indentured I had become to the system…and how much we could help others with a simple change to our living habits. Our efforts allow us to help family members under duress because our lifestyle doesn’t eat it all up, and I owe it all to your insight. Thank you.

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]]> By: The ideal working environment « Khairul-o-rama http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/low-rent-living/#comment-255000 The ideal working environment « Khairul-o-rama Sat, 05 Feb 2011 08:34:51 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/low-rent-living/#comment-255000 [...] Found this piece on the internet ! A Low rent life! [...] [...] Found this piece on the internet ! A Low rent life! [...]

]]> By: Sandy http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/low-rent-living/#comment-254943 Sandy Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:36:43 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/low-rent-living/#comment-254943 Deb C, It's amazing to be able to recognize all the stuff we really don't NEED. The longer something sits in storage, the more you realize you just don't need it. Good luck and God bless! Sandy Deb C,
It’s amazing to be able to recognize all the stuff we really don’t NEED. The longer something sits in storage, the more you realize you just don’t need it. Good luck and God bless!
Sandy

]]> By: Deb Collins http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/low-rent-living/#comment-254927 Deb Collins Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:22:26 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2006/08/low-rent-living/#comment-254927 Oh thanks so much for the encouraging words. I've come full circle to a place that is one room and very fortunately, the parlor of a very beautiful riverside mansion with a majestic fireplace. I have lived at the very breaking point of my budget for the past few years because I was broke for so long, raising two children as a single mom and going to school to get to the income I needed to raise my children. Paradox that life is, by the time I had enough income, they were grown and gone and leading very productive lives. So I traded up a number of times until I was at the bursting point. Moving to one room was very difficult. Putting in storage all of the things that reminded me of the life I have lived and the children I had raised came with a grieving I hadn't anticipated. But it is sinking in that my life is only now forward. The past was and no longer is. I am me because of where I have been and because of the parts of me that I have left behind that weren't really me. I am adjusting, and in six months, when the contract renewal for the storage space comes due, I'm likely to put all of it in a big dumpster and not look back. Oh thanks so much for the encouraging words. I’ve come full circle to a place that is one room and very fortunately, the parlor of a very beautiful riverside mansion with a majestic fireplace. I have lived at the very breaking point of my budget for the past few years because I was broke for so long, raising two children as a single mom and going to school to get to the income I needed to raise my children. Paradox that life is, by the time I had enough income, they were grown and gone and leading very productive lives. So I traded up a number of times until I was at the bursting point.

Moving to one room was very difficult. Putting in storage all of the things that reminded me of the life I have lived and the children I had raised came with a grieving I hadn’t anticipated. But it is sinking in that my life is only now forward. The past was and no longer is. I am me because of where I have been and because of the parts of me that I have left behind that weren’t really me.

I am adjusting, and in six months, when the contract renewal for the storage space comes due, I’m likely to put all of it in a big dumpster and not look back.

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