What is your "dream" simple life?

[Ultralight]

What is your "dream" simple life?

If you did not have to worry about compromising with your husband, wife, kids, parents, friends, bosses, etc. what kind of simple life would you live? Where would you live it? What would you do with your time?

Hopefully envisioning this today (on a Monday, haha) will get you through the day!

[Tammy]

If money were no object and I was on my own - I would live in a small RV - big enough to have a tiny bathroom but small enough to drive like a large car. I would follow the seasons around the country, staying in 70-80 degree weather all the time. I'd stay in KOA campgrounds.

[Kestra]

What is your "dream" simple life?

If you did not have to worry about compromising with your husband, wife, kids, parents, friends, bosses, etc. what kind of simple life would you live? Where would you live it? What would you do with your time?

Hopefully envisioning this today (on a Monday, haha) will get you through the day!

I'll tell you mine, if you tell me yours.


Seriously, I'll go write up my thoughts elsewhere first before I read your ideas.

[Ultralight]

Tammy:

That would be a beautiful life! Thanks for sharing your dream.

[iris lilies]

It's not far from what I'm doing now.

but sure, I could improve on it--

in my alternate universe where I don't have to compromise with DH or care for pets and increasingly demanding iris and Lily plants, I'd live in a tiny house in a village, maybe in Hermann MO or in Elsah, Il and also have a pied e terre in the city of St.
Louis. The country house would have my tiny-but-perfect garden and tiny community, and the city place would be my cultural escape.

[Stacy]

I wouldn't be working at a job just to pay the bills.
I'd be an artist and a writer living in my native UP of Michigan. Being inspired by the scenery outside the door of my lakeside cabin, I would be prolific in my work and make plenty of money to support myself.
My husband can also live there, but only the dream husband who cleans up after himself so that my house stays pleasant and inviting.

[Ultralight]

iris lilies: Glad to hear you are pretty close to your dream!

Stacy: I chuckled a little bit at this part: "My husband can also live there, but only the dream husband who cleans up after himself so that my house stays pleasant and inviting."

[catherine]

I've had a couple of thoughts:

I know this doesn't sound simple, but I would have a beach house in Ocean Grove, NJ--I just feel I belong there, and the houses are tiny and simple, but you can walk down the old-fashioned main street and get anything you want or need, and you have the boardwalk with all these happy people walking dogs and fishing on the pier.

BUT, I would have only enough possessions so that I could just pack them away for the summer months and then rent the house out during peak season to offset the mortgage (although in an ideal world, I'd pay cash for the house). Then, in the summer, I'd go up to see my kids in VT and live in a tiny house on wheels in my son's back yard.

[bae]

I'd live on a small island in Pacific, in the US, in a temperate climate zone, outside a small village but near enough to bicycle. I would occupy my time raising my kid, tutoring math and science, making wine, participating in local government, NGO, and community service opportunities, and doing firefighting/rescue work.


So, basically what I've been doing the past 15 years or so :-)

[Ultralight]

bae:

You have quite a life set-up for yourself! Living the dream.