What are you Old Style goals? (longer term)

Queenie

Some Old Style ways which I read about on here are simply not possible for me right now, but in the longer term, I hope to make them a part of my overall lifestyle. Among them are:-

• keep a few chickens
• grow my own fruits, veggies and herbs
• learn to cure my own bacon/hams (I need a bigger kitchen!)

Do you have long term goals/plans of incorporating any Old Style ways into your permanent lifestyle which aren't possible right now?

JCL

I would like to grow my own fruit and veg and have hens. Problem is I stay in a flat at the moment so not really practical!

One for when I get a house.

System

I would like my own online business. It must be nice to be successful at doing something and making money at doing it. Sorry its not very 'Oldstyle' though.

Katgoddess

Judi wrote:

I would like my own online business. It must be nice to be successful at doing something and making money at doing it. Sorry its not very 'Oldstyle' though.

I too would like my own business, so you are not the only one.

I would like to be more old style and buy a sewing machine. But that will have to wait until I have more space.

Sarahsaver

I have chickens, make soap, cheese, yoghurt, cakes, pickles, bread, grow fruit and veg, and am setting my own business up. Also shop in the local market and have largely done away with the big supermarket deliveries.
Goals for the future
buy meat in bulk i.e. a whole organic lamb so it will be cheaper
Get a solar panel
Catch the squirrels in my garden abd eat them
get an air rifle for the fat juicy woodpigeons that taunt me in my garden!
Open up one of the wells in my garden, and also get water butts so i dont have to pay the surface drainage charge
Actually use the sewing machine I have!
Finish getting my old style house renovated, with all the money I hopefully will have saved;) BTW It's in a city, 10 mins walk from the centre!!! I did the self sufficient thing years ago when I was a teenager, I don't think I could go back to living in the sticks, my kids would drive me barmy:rolleyes:

tru

My first goal is to reduce spending even further so we can live off hubby's wages and not need mine. Which sounds easy but we're paying out £140 per month for debts. Mind you, I've almost managed it :cool:

Though I'm self-employed, it doesn't feel like 'my biz', I have a couple of ideas so I'll be trying those out soon.

I'd like some chickens too

I'd also like to breed guinea pigs so I've been looking into that. Though I know I'll worry about them being looked after properly once I've sold them, so I'm still undecided.

moggins

I already grow my own vegetables, pick fruit from the hedgerows and make my own jams, pickles and chutneys.

What I'm aiming for next is to get some chickens, learn to use a sewing machine and level my cooker so I can bake without one side of a cake coming out like a biscuit

Noozan

I have chickens and also grow my own vegetables and soft fruit. I don't have enough space to raise larger animals for meat, so my OH's work colleague is raising a lamb and pig along with his own animals for us. *Makes a mental note to get a new freezer* I make my own jams, chutneys and pickles too.

Lillibet_2

In the very long term I'd like to live somewhere with a big enough garden to grow my own fruit & veggies & keep a couple of chickens. In the medium term I'd like to be able to juggle our budget to be able to live off hubbys salary alone so that I can be a full time old style wife & mum without money worries, just like my mum & nan, and (perhaps more achieveably) to aquire a sewing machine & learn to sew.

Oh, and I'd also like to run the London marathon, learn to scuba dive, visit the Galapogas Islands, and post pregnancy shed all the weight that I'm piling on now, but I guess these aren't particually old style

Yoga_Girl

Ditto everything Lillibet said minus the scuba-diving!

(I'm still working on shifting the post-pregnancy weight though lillibet and its nearly 2 years later!)

I grow a little bit of fruit & veg at the moment but would like to have a bigger patch so I can grow a lot more and keep chickens. Would also like a goat.

Trying to work towards being able to spend more time at home.

HappySad

Sarahsaver wrote:

I have chickens, make soap, cheese, yoghurt, cakes, pickles, bread, grow fruit and veg, and am setting my own business up. Also shop in the local market and have largely done away with the big supermarket deliveries.
Goals for the future
buy meat in bulk i.e. a whole organic lamb so it will be cheaper
Get a solar panel
Catch the squirrels in my garden abd eat them
get an air rifle for the fat juicy woodpigeons that taunt me in my garden!
Open up one of the wells in my garden, and also get water butts so i dont have to pay the surface drainage charge
Actually use the sewing machine I have!
Finish getting my old style house renovated, with all the money I hopefully will have saved;) BTW It's in a city, 10 mins walk from the centre!!! I did the self sufficient thing years ago when I was a teenager, I don't think I could go back to living in the sticks, my kids would drive me barmy:rolleyes:

I am impressed with you. I have started to grow some fruit and would love to keep chicken in the future. I am a full time mother and when my children start school I will have more time on my hands to do all the old style of things. I am currently cooking most of our dinners from scratch which I am proud of. Before I used to always have ready meals. :rotfl: