Hey, I'm Elsa Rhae, we have been all over the place in the last week. Last week we
started installing our wood-burning stove inside of the scamp, it's looking pretty great.
But in the middle of that we had to leave for Denver to go visit
parents family for a wedding. That was a lot of fun, we stayed at a hotel, we
stayed at Barron's cousin's house and we stayed with Hunter and Sarah, and now we
are staying at an Airbnb. The Scamp is about three miles away, but we have to
wait till tomorrow to go and get it so that's five places in the last week and
on that note one of our biggest questions when we were in Denver was how
do we feel when we leave the Scamp when we go stay in the city so we thought
that we would answer that today.
The first thing we always do when we go to cities like Denver is we go to REI.
We like the check and see if there's anything that we could possibly need for the Scamp
and we also like to go and see my stickers.
but this was one of the first times that we've ever gone to REI and really not needed anything.
We were looking for a shovel or snow gear or something
but aside from a waterfilter we have everything that we need right now,
but that might change with the winter.
in a city it's easy to find everything that we need, there are stores everywhere within a very short distance
and it's really easy to find sushi happy hours, we got sushi three times?
We went to three different happy hours.
They're like two rolls for eight bucks and it was good sushi.
decisions yeah we have that sushi in a long time so cities used to be more
useful and I think before things like the internet and
Amazon and everything else begin to happen because you used to have to go to
the city to do your business or to buy things or interact with other people or
get jobs what have you but now that the Internet's of thing that's not really
the case like you can work remotely you can talk to people from all across the
world and you can get things too like we do a P o box in the middle of the
mountains so we can get like anything that's available on the internet
whenever we're diving back into Denver there's this like one point where you
really come out of the mountains and you can see down over the whole city and
stoplights become more frequent and all the highways start to split off it's it
induces some level of anxiety especially when you're used to like a new basic of
not high anxiety all the time when I was in the city and having to commute to
work or whatever I didn't really feel it then
now that we've stepped away to go back into that is like wow it's very very
different yeah and I couldn't I never would have thought it would be so
drastic you know the common luxuries like showers and running water and being
around people and having unlimited Wi-Fi really aren't worth it well because we
have most of the things like we have all of that accessible like there's nothing
that I can really think of that we don't have access to it's like better I would
say that running water having a sink your limited water would be easier I
much prefer a river giving up the access to unlimited water allows us to live
anywhere we want out in the mountains or violate or in the desert we can jump
ship the move anywhere and we don't have to pay for any utilities
and now that we don't have access full time to unlimited data or Wi-Fi when we
do we find ourselves just getting into everything will sit on YouTube for hours
when we are in the scamp we tend to read more books or we have specific movies
that we've downloaded to wash in the scamp your podcast so we're doing a lot
more intellectual things like not having full time unlimited access to Wi-Fi
something also that happens whenever we're staying somewhere that isn't the
scam is I have a tendency to spread out all of my things whereas in the skip
everything kind of has a place when I'm in this camp I can clean up after you
without walking around so I can reach everything and put everything away
whereas when we're in a place like this it just takes a lot longer to keep all
your shit going about so it's better to have less space yeah and it's hard going
into the city even with like seeing friends and stuff like with gifts or
with when we're shopping or looking at things it's harder to not go back to the
stamp with more crap that we don't mean it's very hard to be diligent and
disciplined in not collecting more stuff out here where it's so much more
available it's not the having a thing that's going to give you your sort of
dopamine hint or like a little bit of fulfillment it's the act of buying it
and getting a good deal or like this thing I couldn't buy this anywhere else
or you know there's this like ephemeral nature to it where it's like it's gonna
be cooler than it is but it's mostly I feel like you're mostly buying it for
that moment you know and then the last thing that's kind of like a the biggest
biggest thing is went where do we start just well they came up in lots of
conversations like people will talk about where they're living
and then it comes up like what the rent costs and it's crazy especially out here
in Colorado many people are paying upwards of eight hundred dollars a
person to live in different places and people justify it and we did the same
thing when we're in KC you justify it by what's available near you so we're
paying like seven hundred and fifty dollars for an apartment it was like
well that's not so bad because there's these places in it next to us that there
is 900 so you kind of like justify these astronomical expenses relative to what's
available near you which makes sense but at the same time all of these prices are
and unfathomably high especially since you're renting and you never got home
the thing $700 that we saved in one month in not
living in the city I bought this camera that's filming us right now put that
towards a car in like three months we don't have car payments because we paid
for it in cash because we're not paying any rent flips the camera died so it's
not that rent or living a house or an apartment is a bad thing I understand
what that is the only option for a lot of people that's a lot of money that
just disappears even though that is the normal way to do it and there aren't a
lot of options available it's just crazy that society we're doing that if you
want to start liberating yourself and living the life that you want you really
need to cut your expenses so thinking about things like rent utilities food
and all the places that just soak up money with no real return to you and to
your personal fulfillment may be looking to how you could cut those out a little
bit because it's just oftentimes people asked to like okay how do I make enough
money to do this I think it's a lot easier to like figure out how to use
less money than it is to come out of the gate and make a lot of money you know
because money doesn't I mean it helps you but if that's not what makes you
succeed in this lifestyle time freedom travel those are all the things that we
are much more success inducing than money
so to start sort of adopting a minimalist philosophy and being frugal
and figuring out how to need less is a good place to start
and that even like in normal life because then you don't need so much
money just to stay afloat so you can kind of
like Ratchet back and spend time doing the things that you love like invest in
your personal business or your lifestyle business and I think the final word is
here all right that it's not that we don't like going to the city
we just intentionally choose to no longer live in a city for the sake of
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