Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

From the USAToday website:

When the economy started to squeeze the Wojtowicz family, they gave up vacation cruises, restaurant meals, new clothes and high-tech toys to become 21st-century homesteaders.

Now Patrick Wojtowicz, 36, his wife Melissa, 37, and daughter Gabrielle, 15, raise pigs and chickens for food on 40 acres near Alma, Mich. They’re planning a garden and installing a wood furnace. They disconnected the satellite TV and radio, ditched their dishwasher and a big truck and started buying clothes at resale shops.

Fascinating, isnt it? What me and, hopefully, you would call ‘common sense’ during these times is considered noteworthy. From the article it sounds like what these people have done is to rework their lifestyle so they a) live within their means and b) take more responsibility for their own well-being. Live on less than you earn…a novel concept, no?