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Re: Ever think of going off into the woods and being a hermit?
« Reply #15 on: February 17, 2015, 04:37:34 pm »
Hello there. :wave: Yikes! :angry7: :BangHead: Lonely winters in main! :BangHead: That I couldn't see myself doing at all. :sweat: :confused1: However I do from time to time want to escape this world,and go off into the woods for a couple days of peace. :peace: :heart: :D To clear my thoughts from my head. :rainbow: :rose: Maybe I would go on a long weekend. ;) :) I would gladly leave my phone, my computer, and my stress etc.... :party: :peace: :rainbow: I think we all need that kind of peace sometimes. :peace: Sometime life drives us crazy and we need a brake form the craziness. :BangHead: :bootyshake: Also I'm a writer the quietness is perfect for my writing. ;) :) :peace: Bye now everyone enjoy their evening or their day wherever you are in the world. :wave: ;) :D :in-love: :peace:
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Re: Ever think of going off into the woods and being a hermit?
« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2015, 07:25:31 pm »
ALL THE TIME! I wish I was healthy and young enough to give it try. I do feel like it woul dbe harder to do in today's modern world than just 20 or 30 years ago. I mean, you would probably have to own the woods or you would be trespassing!  ::) Seems like there are obstacles to living simply.

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Re: Ever think of going off into the woods and being a hermit?
« Reply #17 on: February 17, 2015, 08:50:52 pm »
I've often thought I was born 100 years too late.  I would have absolutely been at home in the 1800's.  I could have lived in a lone cabin on the prairie having never laid eyes on another human being apart from my family for months and been just fine with that.  Living the "hard life" wouldn't be difficult at all for me.  One day a week our family shuts down all the modern conveniences and lives without using the computer, TV's, electric lights, cell phones, tablets, etc.  I wouldn't have any problem at all leaving all of those things behind and living 100% off the grid. 

I'm comfortable cooking in cast iron skillets over a fire outside (do it on a regular basis in the summer), cooking on an antique wood stove (you really CAN taste a difference in food cooked that way), doing laundry by hand the hard way, sewing by hand, reading by oil lamp.  I grew up on a farm so I would be comfortable with raising animals and growing my own food.

I most definitely could give up the modern lifestyle and live an isolated life.  The problem would lie in the financial side of things.  Like sgluckadoo said, if you didn't own the woods, you would be trespassing.  And if you do own the woods you will have to pay taxes on it.  Unless you are amazingly wealthy and can leave an unlimited amount of money in a bank somewhere with directions to pay your property taxes every year, you will have to come out at least once a year.  I wouldn't want to risk setting up a life in a cabin somewhere and then all of a sudden someone show up and send me to jail for trespassing.  Living simply isn't just a matter of doing it and forgetting about everything else.

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Re: Ever think of going off into the woods and being a hermit?
« Reply #18 on: February 18, 2015, 12:33:43 am »
No way! Living in Upstate New York, I understand firsthand how brutal the winters can be. Deciding to live in the woods, especially at this time, is lunacy! Your question reminds me a new television show that will air on Animal Planet. I believe it is entitled "Born in the Wild". There are other "living off the grid" television shows as well, and all of them have certainly turned me off to the idea of adopting such a lifestyle...even for one second. Yuck!

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Re: Ever think of going off into the woods and being a hermit?
« Reply #19 on: February 18, 2015, 04:51:23 am »
I would like to live in the woods but not really be a hermit. Just have a lot of privacy.

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Re: Ever think of going off into the woods and being a hermit?
« Reply #20 on: February 18, 2015, 07:19:45 am »
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: Ever think of going off into the woods and being a hermit?
« Reply #21 on: February 18, 2015, 10:16:46 am »
I think of it a lot when I think about needing to get away. I wouldn't want to do it for very long but I wouldn't being off the grid for a few days.

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Re: Ever think of going off into the woods and being a hermit?
« Reply #22 on: February 18, 2015, 12:56:13 pm »
Not me. I like modern conveniences too much to give them up and move to the woods.  I don't like bugs, spiders, snakes and other wild animals.

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Re: Ever think of going off into the woods and being a hermit?
« Reply #23 on: February 28, 2015, 03:30:26 pm »
Not really... some shady stuff can happen in the woods, like murder, arson, drugs etc... I used to live near a woodland area, and some pot head teenagers from my HS started a fire at 12 o clock

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Re: Ever think of going off into the woods and being a hermit?
« Reply #24 on: February 28, 2015, 04:09:31 pm »
No, the thought never crossed my mind. I want to be near people, not creatures.
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Re: Ever think of going off into the woods and being a hermit?
« Reply #25 on: February 28, 2015, 09:18:44 pm »
Being a hermit is hard, but sometimes I like to take a break from my daily routine, and go someplace calm and serene.

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Re: Ever think of going off into the woods and being a hermit?
« Reply #26 on: February 28, 2015, 11:10:06 pm »
NOpe have no desire to do this. Some people are born for it and are one with nature id probably be like "ahhhhh" runs away from it

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Re: Ever think of going off into the woods and being a hermit?
« Reply #27 on: March 01, 2015, 07:58:45 am »
nope cant say i have!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: Ever think of going off into the woods and being a hermit?
« Reply #28 on: March 01, 2015, 09:09:38 am »
All the time.  My only conditions would be wanting internet and cable.  Sounds crazy but I'd love to be able to be out in the middle of no where, growing a garden, etc.   Love solitude.

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Re: Ever think of going off into the woods and being a hermit?
« Reply #29 on: March 01, 2015, 09:15:06 am »
No wouldn't want to have to live like this but I try to understand that there are people who get put into a difficult position in life and "there but for the grace of God go I" now aside from thievery to exist I am kind of hermit like in a house lol.  I buy my own food though but I am kind of a stay at home loner kind of person.

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