I am CAUGHT in a MONKEY TRAP..........."ARE YOU" ????

[Biggkidd]

Dying happy and free is much better than living at someone else's whim or will. We all make decisions everyday that can make or break us. We just have to live with the choices we make. I for one like the idea of living as free and healthy as I am able until I can't anymore. I just hope I maintain the courage to continue on until I die. I gave up on Dr.s around five years ago and decided to take my chances without the meds that were slowly robbing me of life and liberty. Living everyday in constant pain sucks but it beats licking boots if ya ask me!

To answer your question I guess we are all caught in one trap or another pick your trap well........

 

[sonya123]

No children.

Any other relatives or close friends? My best friend ( a guy almost 20 years older than me, he was almost like a dad to me, I miss him very much) left his stuff to the son of a friend. He was going to leave his stuff to me ( if his wife died first) but I told him I didn't want it, I felt like it would jinx him and me and he would die soon. So he left it to a friend;s son who he thought was a good kid. He died anyway, dropped dead at 70 from heart attack in 2019. His wife inherited. Now everything will go to her nephew ( who my friend didn't like).
You can leave your stuff to someone you like, or a charity you like.

It sucks thinking about death, but then it doesn't. It will be all over and you don't have to worry about anything after. that's what I think. I just hope I die before my kids and husband. That's the only thing I want

 

[Tirediron]

There are not too many people who can hack even the gentle self sufficient life, I have put quite a lot of effort into reducing the lifting requirements in my firewood harvest, process, use system. it is way better as to labor required, but one can find themself facing limitations. that is a tiny part of the list I know but it is a thing. if I were to get injured to the point of not being able to run a machine, I would have to have help.

 

[Sourdough]

Any other relatives or close friends?

All of my friends are in their 70's or 80's. and they "for sure" don't want this lifestyle.

 

[Haertig]

decided to take my chances without the meds that were slowly robbing me of life and liberty

How were meds robbing you of life and liberty?

 

[UrbanHunter]

All of my friends are in their 70's or 80's. and they "for sure" don't want this lifestyle.

We are on the other end of that monkey trap. I am still in fairly good shape (for mid 60s) and would love to just throw it to the wind and move to someplace where I could enjoy my own outdoors and have a large garden/homestead type of life.... But my wife has 6 doctors, sees a nurse once a week, gets medicines delivered to the house every 3 days. She has been in 5 different hospitals all within 90 minutes of here.... I can't move because she cannot give up the level of medical care she currently is getting..... And my fear is that by the time I get free I will be on your end of the monkey trap...

 

[Amish Heart]

Husband kept using the docs as an excuse to not move to the farm. But then the docs in Albuquerque starting quitting and retiring, and he was having to find new ones anyway. We moved when he was not at his best at all, and I did pretty much everything. We took a trip to the Denver hospital he goes to just a few weeks after arriving in Kansas, and that trip was so hard on him, he came back a mess and it took a month to even start feeling a little better. Then we were on a mission to find good docs here, because he assumed we would not at all. He sees a bunch of specialists for all different things, and we only saw one doc that got the thumbs down, and found another that we liked well enough for that specialty. He griped that he wouldn't be able to find pulmonary rehab that he had in Albuquerque, and bought the home equipment to do instead. Well the Albuquerque rehab closed down with covid, and he found a great one here, just 15-20 minutes away, three days a week, and only a buck a session. All in all, even having covid, even getting shot sick from the vaxx, he is in better shape now than he was when we got here, and lots less grumpy, because he tends to be when he feels bad. I ignored all the podunk town, ignorant people jokes coming out of him and he's better. So, a little push and he had to deal with it. I personally would of liked to move earlier because now I'm older and it takes me longer to get things done than it used to.

 

[Magus]

OK, I got a plan, parcel it off into fenced four acre lots, on the three lots with no buildings, pour concrete pads, drill wells, put in septic tanks and rent/sell it to a "group" who meets your approval. I had to let my life go, no wife, no kids living with me, one bad step could put me on my back for days! picture that in the winter, either indoors and freezing or outdoors exposed to the weather! Not a death fit for a dog! just be aware you have the say of who buys it. put an ad in backwoodsman or survival guide.

 

[Sourdough]

Started to subdivide these 16 acres two & half years ago. We would have got roughly 11 or 9 lots that would have sold for total of $1,175,000.00 (land here is around $55,000.00 to $95,000.00 per acre, mainly because there is none, or nearly none and it is inside the center of a seven-million-acre National Forest. We estimated cost of subdivision at $135,000.00 so we would have netted a bit over a million, then less commissions and closing costs, maybe final net of $950,000.00 but I exploded when I discovered I would have to give "FREE" some land to the state of Alaska. So, I aborted that plan. (Yes, now I deeply regret that decision).

The property has 20-foot-high waterfalls, on a pure water creek that flows straight out of government land classified as preservation watershed. Could be developed for power generation and gravity feed water. Property has two high producing water wells about 68 feet deep each. A few cabins, a new septic system. Two 1,000-gallon diesel fuel tanks, a 165 gal. fuel tank, a 300 gal. fuel tank, four 20-foot connex/shipping containers, a 24-foot refrigeration container. It is 1/4 mile deep and 1/10 mile wide and is currently divided into two eight-acre parcels. The views are what people dream off. Abundant fish and game and waterfowl.
flexmls Lot #5
flexmls Lot #4
Photos of my Valley (Six Mile Creek Valley) 11 humans live here, in 8 or 9 dwellings.
six mile creek alaska - Bing images

OK, I got a plan, parcel it off into fenced four acre lots, on the three lots with no buildings, pour concrete pads, drill wells, put in septic tanks and rent/sell it to a "group" who meets your approval. I had to let my life go, no wife, no kids living with me, one bad step could put me on my back for days! picture that in the winter, either indoors and freezing or outdoors exposed to the weather! Not a death fit for a dog! just be aware you have the say of who buys it. put an ad in backwoodsman or survival guide.

 

[Magus]

Sounds like paradise bro. but if you're alone like me, you got to let go.
the only alternative is selling off a chunk to someone you know and like so you have neighbors or renting some out after you get some utilities in,
I think your best bet would be with an established group.

 

[Biggkidd]

How were meds robbing you of life and liberty?

I have Multiple Sclerosis among other things and the side effects of the meds were giving me flu like symptoms 3 to 5 days a week on average. The fevers were the worst 102-103 every week for days on end. That was after stopping most of them because I was at the point to where NONE of my time or my life was mine the dang medicine had me so sick all the time. So I slowly at first started stopping them in reverse of how they gave them to me. So I quit the last prescribed first and worked my way through all the pills and then eventually the shots. At one time they had me taking 76 pills a day. Often times they would give this or that to counter the bad effects of this or that. It got old and I got to the point where I decided I'd rather live my time left with QUALITY of LIFE without all that crap in my body. Funny part was the more I went opposite of Dr.s recommendations the better I felt the more I was able to do etc. I have no doubts I'd be dead by now if I had stayed on that path. Speaking of death the wonderful docs told my wife & I in the fall of 05 to make my arrangements as I wasn't likely to make it through Christmas of that year.

 

[Magus]

Gotta love them white coated geniuses, I was supposed to be in a wheelchair by 1998.

 

[Biggkidd]

I

Gotta love them white coated geniuses, I was supposed to be in a wheelchair by 1998.

spent part of 05 and 06 in a chair learning to walk talk and write again.

 

[Magus]

And you proved them wrong! be proud.
I can't say exactly what I did for mine, I don't think meditative visualization would go over well here.

 

[Sourdough]

 

[Magus]

Beautiful!

 

[Sourdough]

I spent 60 years looking for a real good survival location. A group should buy the little village.

 

[Alaskajohn]

I do want to echo some of what Sourdough is saying. I know I will be in a similar situation in about a decade as I am just a bit more than a decade behind him.

This is a tough lifestyle and few want to do this type of stuff anymore. Sourdough has much more snow and bigger bears than I do, and I have the bitter winter cold to deal with. We need to be outdoors year round to manage the property, and it takes a strong back. Not complaining as I love it! The glory days perhaps ended in the mid 70s as far as having a lot of people eager to move to Alaska and do this. I am the third owner of the "Alaskan Homestead" since the original homesteader sold. One had it for a decade as a summer residence and the other tried this for 4 years doing it full time. Both said they just couldn't do it anymore.

Property is much more valuable in Sourdough's are as it is known as "Alaska's playground" and private ownership is almost non-existent. Supply and demand. My spread might fetch $300K if I am lucky. Lots of unoccupied and available property dotted along the only road in the area about the size of an eastern state. But still, almost no one is buying as few want this lifestyle.

 

[Bacpacker]

Beautiful place Sourdough. I know you've enjoyed living there. I truly hate that things have come to what they have for you. My prayers are that you find the best solution possible for you.

 

[Neb]

Thinking out side the box...

There used to be adds in the back of men's magazines ( The Princess has often quipped "You know what they say about sailors.) for Russian brides looking for husbands.

Get prenuptial agreement so you can get out if she is a looser...but be up front about your condition and the reality of the lifestyle and what she could inherit.

Could be a win win with the possibility of a child in your old age.

Just thinking...

Ben

 

[Haertig]

I have Multiple Sclerosis among other things and the side effects of the meds...

Holy crap Biggkidd. That has got to have been rough to get through. Sounds like you did indeed make the right decision to get off of all those meds. That would have been a scary and gutsy decision to make, forgoing the meds that were supposedly helping you against doctors recommendations, but it sure sounds like it was the right move for you. I'm glad you listened to your body and came out the better for it.

 

[Biggkidd]

Holy crap Biggkidd. That has got to have been rough to get through. Sounds like you did indeed make the right decision to get off of all those meds. That would have been a scary and gutsy decision to make, forgoing the meds that were supposedly helping you against doctors recommendations, but it sure sounds like it was the right move for you. I'm glad you listened to your body and came out the better for it.

It really wasn't that hard on my part convincing my family took some time and effort. By the time I quit the main shot / last med my youngest daughter was about big enough to care for herself if she had to. (single dad since 2011) I knew if I didn't get off that stuff it was going to kill me soon. The side effects had been getting worse for a long time and had really started ramping up.

 

[Spikedriver]

Whatever you decide, @Sourdough ...Godspeed.