Cob: how do folks handle other responsibilities duringbuildin g?

[Tony Glaser]

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

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Anthony Glaser
aglaser at engsoc.carleton.ca
http://www.engsoc.carleton.ca/~aglaser
Year 2 Electrical
Faculty of Engineering, Carleton University