Increasingly, as time has gone on, I’ve tried to demonstrate that a satisfying lifestyle can be had without jeopardising our grandchildren’s options. It has meant going off-grid philosophically as well as electrically.
I’ve come to see money as a bet that there will be something to buy in the future and I see too many such bets being laid. The antidote is easy: buy what you think you will need in the future, now. I value blades and bits, good tools, hose fittings, alkathene pipe, chain-bar oil, stocks of assorted bolts, and stacks of useful extrusions more than I do the digits in our bank’s computer. Indeed, I call having that stuff ‘money in the bank’.
Simple, maintainable, maintenance-free
Our first approach hereabouts was to stay minimalist, on the basis…