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Old Fashioned On Purpose

121. 9 Things Your Non-Homesteading Friends Don't Understand

Old Fashioned On Purpose

Jill Winger

Canning, Homesteading, Farming, Leisure, Farm, Homestead, Gardening, Hobbies, Cows, Chickens, Cooking, How To, Home & Garden, Education

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

It’s no secret. The vast majority of the world considers us homesteaders to be a bit of an odd bunch. If we’re being honest with ourselves, what we do on a daily basis is certainly abnormal in modern society. Even my non-homesteading friends have a major misconception when it comes to why we actually do what we do. I must admit, it certainly would be much easier to go to the store and buy a gallon of milk than it is to own your own milk cow. It would also be much...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Old Fashioned All and Purpose Podcast.

0:05.0

Have you ever felt like there's a teeny little bit of a gap between you and your non homesteading friends.

0:13.9

I mean, for the most part, they try to be supportive,

0:16.0

they try to understand what you're doing,

0:17.4

but sometimes certain things just get lost in translation. And in today's episode we're taking a slightly more

0:26.7

light-hearted look at some things that non-homesteaders will just never understand.

0:35.2

I'm your host Jill Winger,

0:36.5

and this is the podcast for the Trail Blazers,

0:39.8

the Mavericks, the Mavrocks, the Mavrocks, the Makers,

0:41.2

the Homesteadedters, the modern pioneers, and the backyard farmers.

0:45.7

If you have ever found yourself disenchanted with conformity and you just like to swim upstream

0:51.7

while the rest of the herd rides the river of least resistance.

0:55.8

Well, you found your tribe.

0:58.8

This episode is brought to you by Lehman's Hardware, my number one all-time favorite store for all things homesteading

1:06.9

and old-fashioned living. More than ever, I want to be supporting small businesses right now and layman's is a shining

1:16.2

example of that. Not only do they carry everything from gardening supplies to

1:21.4

kitchen equipment to all sorts of really cool off-grid appliances.

1:26.6

They are family owned and operated, and I completely fell in love with their mission when

1:31.7

I visited their store in the tiny town of Kidderon, Ohio last summer.

1:37.0

For a limited time only, if you use the coupon code Jill May, you can save 10% on all of their baking supplies which yes that

1:47.8

includes their heritage stoneware bowls you know the ones with the blue stripe

1:52.4

that you've seen in my

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