How much do we need?

The thought just flashed through my mind sitting here in the Earth module, how much do I really need? If I need to eat there is a table right over there.  On that wall is a TV. There are two comfortable chairs. The view if we had to pay for it would be worth millions.  The bathroom is just fine.  One good shower will come from the water heater then person two has to wait 15 minutes.  The stove is right there and Jasper Littlebottom  cooks up a storm.  Everything is about three steps away.

Back at the mansion in North Dakota we have a basement with two bedrooms. Sometimes it seems like months before we ever even see them.  In the upstairs in ND the living room is rarely used. The fireplace often goes for a year with no use.  There is no yard here, but the one in North Dakota takes money, hours of work, and waste water, fertilizer and time.

The Earth Module is about eight feet wide and 27 feet long.   The living room at home is almost three times bigger, but you cannot hook a truck on the living room and move it to the side of a mountain.  We have great neighbors in North Dakota, but the nice thing about the Earth Module is if the neighbors are mean or noisy, just hook up and move.

The Earth Module is so small heating it is a snap.  If one wanted the solar panel could be hooked up and the sun would provide the electricity.  Worst case scenario in the Earth module would be buy some propane now and then, but it is magnitudes cheaper than the home place.

Cold outside? No problem with an Earth Module, just move farther south. Too hot, go farther north.  Taxes?  What are they? No property tax no house payment.

So this all comes full circle to one of Kadizzle's rules to live by.   " A man is rich in accordance to what he can afford to do without."