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Cob: how do folks handle other responsibilities duringbuildin g?Tony Glaser aglaser at engsoc.carleton.caThu Aug 26 22:32:25 CDT 1999
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, John Schinnerer wrote: > The most important thing in my opinion is to take a long hard look at "the > demands of everyday life" and act to change them so that this becomes less > and less of an issue. It's only been an issue for a small part of the > population for a few hundred years out of human history...let's start > turning it around before it gets any worse! True. Funny how it seems a problem that building a cob house would take a couple years of full time labour. People spend 20+ years of full time labour just paying for their crummy innorganic boxes they live in. Of course, most people are already caught up in the rat-race and only have the choice of pouring their hard-earned cash into rent or into a morgage on a conventional home. If I was in that situation, and let's say I had a familly too, my strategy would be to try and make it as much a communal effort as possible. I guess you could say I'd start a club. The club could fundraise, buy some land, and build. So the question has become a more general one of how do people find time to do things like be in a club AND work full time, AND raise a familly. The answer, I guess, is to not watch TV and join a club your familly can join too. that's all i have to say about that. Tony -------------------------------------------- Anthony Glaser aglaser at engsoc.carleton.ca http://www.engsoc.carleton.ca/~aglaser Year 2 Electrical Faculty of Engineering, Carleton University
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