THE FREEDOM WAY
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There is a certain amount of mental orientation and
conditioning necessary before you set out, to be sure, and
no one but yourself can make that change - about which will
be required.
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You first of all have to decide whether the simple life is
really what you are after and if you are willing to make
the changes necessary. You have to do some giving up. You
can't have the same kind of corner drugstore comforts you
have in the city. You may have to build your own fires,
wash your own clothes, read by a coal oil lamp, and eat off
an oil cloth instead of damask linen, such as you are used
to in the fine hotels.
Your social life is going to be different. You can't spend
your time at cocktail parties or chamber of commerce
banquets or watching night club acts; and if these things
are more important to you than the peace and serenity and
independence which come from the simple life, maybe you had
better not consider making the change.
But if you go into this thing with your eyes open - always
realizing in the back of your mind that in case of economic
or atomic attack it may mean the difference between
survival and destruction - you'll never find a better life
anywhere than the life that is simple.
But start preparing for it at once. Begin by buying the
outfit you need to get started - sleeping outfit, cooking
outfit, building tools, gardening tools, and the like.
There's a world of fun even in preparing for the simple
life, and mail order house and seed catalogs will enthrall
you for weeks or months before you actually are ready to
start in.
Do not delay too long. There's a new life awaiting you out
there, a fine life, a full life, and it's a shame, if you
have gone this far toward living it, for you not to go the
rest of the way - and fast!
SECTION VII
INFORMATION SOURCES YOU CAN DEPEND
ON
"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
"
Thoreau
For detailed information about different phases of your
new life, here are sources of information:
ABOUT LAND AVAILABLE: Write to the Department of the
Interior, Land Management Bureau, in Washington, for
circular concerning five-acre tract leases. This is free.
The Forest Service, also in Washington, will send you a
circular about tracts in the national forests which you can
rent.
Read the Sunday classified ads. Frequently you can pick up
small parcels of land for just a few dollars an acre.
Talk to a dependable real estate man in the vicinity of the
place you want your simple life to unfold, and ask about
renting or buying land.
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