We have arrived in my husband's home state of Iowa. After years of living in the rocky mountains, hand to mouth, with more month than money, we have decided to stop being consumers and start being producers.
For years, David added his artistic touches to some of the most beautiful vacation homes in Colorado ski country. Huge, rambling, ridiculous in their pretension. Worst of all, they were used for a few weekends a year and then closed up again. Meanwhile the massive Sub-Zero refrigerators and freezers(multiple in each home), and plasma-screen TVs (again multiples) were plugged in and idle, draining energy and facing an used room for months on end.
When the economy crashed, and his client base found out they were no longer worth 15 million, but were in fact in debt 2-3 million, we decided it was a sign. A sign to stop feeding the machine of over-consumerism and start the new revolution. Back to the earth, back to the simpler ways, back to Iowa.
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