Debt Free Talk and Drive to Anchorage

[Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] while we're driving they encouraged me figured this a good time to camp like a mini backstreet I guess whoever kid won't highway moves and all of that so both of us were born and raised in the bay area of California and at home and we basically kind of had to always have this idea that we wanted to move somewhere in Napoli and and it was just like being outdoors when I was done with school we basically won't start and look around in places and other states and start to see where we could afford land and find a house that we wanted we stumbled upon Morgan we went and visited and done just kind of like up and boob I sold her house and moved all her stuff sold a lot of stuff and ended up in Oregon and that was fall and 14 and we'll be left California we both just left put our jobs we moved Oregon and found the place we were looking for and we got our land we've got twelve acres on a lake and we found new jobs there and yeah we were just working in both five days a week and paying our mortgage to that house so I was at an organ that we kind of started I guess like homesteading is over for it we never really thought we'd do that but we got really into gardening hunting foraging all that stuff started to really pay attention to the land we were living on and what raising animals and we actually kind of like started a small farm we're raising animals for basically customers okay so like Eric said I mean we were very happy there in Oregon we had good jobs this new direction realized and commented on it to each other how quickly time seemed to be I mean like you'd go to work and then you get your things done and then you go to sleep awake over basically do the same thing and and time to do projects against I've done but it just seemed like time was going by I'd like a ring we just happy okay with it at the beginning of this year it was around February we kind of decided to make a change and a liar yeah I guess what we did was Errol said we had started a small farm so and just long story short I end up putting my regular job and doing the farm and then when arrow was off work and all the weekend she helped out too and that was all going good and then came tax time again and I think it was kind of like one of the things would really push my question was at the end of every year that we're living in Oregon we'd still owe a couple thousand dollars of taxes and yeah we just didn't enjoy having to work that hard for our money and then pay all those taxes and have to pay taxes again in here just to touch on that I think that was for us it's a realization for me about finances and we've always been really frugal and we're at a very comfortable point in our lives I guess we just we've just realized that you're trading something for something so you're giving up a part of your time compensation and I kind of just decided that that wasn't really we wanted to do so so I came up with a brilliant idea that we should get ourselves in a situation where we didn't have a mortgage anymore and we didn't have anything else at all you know where they were going we had a mortgage we had tractor payment a boat payment car payment a truck payment and had a bunch of bills and we could afford them obviously but we decided that we wanted to do something we're going to have any bills so we started kind of looking around again where we could find somewhere that was a little more rustic while with better hunting and fishing in Oregon and obviously Alaska came to mind and we started looking at home prices there and how much we're gonna sell our house for and yeah we basically did it all over again it happened really fast sold our house and we're good and took a trip up here yeah we did it all I think they've been cheated before but we did it on like a period of two months prep right literally the finance part of it started earlier in the air and then we got really busy with the farm and then in July or mentioned this idea and in kid you not it was less than two months later we were driving through Canada and extremely cut us yeah I've got to learn that too but with doing things I think we've learned then you can sit around and talk about it all you want and let time pass by or you can just do it right away yeah we've had pretty good luck doing it right away good and we're happy to say now we have one Bentley one bill we have a cell phone bill one monthly bill or 10 million yeah you have tax insurances things like that but Josephine deal with and you know we don't work so we you know we went from Oregon to having all that nice stuff we don't work with a conventional job yeah but work eventual job so we get you know all this time off we get to spend time together and we gonna do whatever we want whenever we want to do it loving it that that really just goes back to like this is a really mindful decision we really like how we're spending our time and each and everything and not fill it up with so much stuff and when I blame networks I loved I mean I love my job I think you know we're both a good jobs it's just was that try to accomplish so much and do so much and fell all our time you had no time to like stop and read and actually enjoy it but one thing that we are kind of interested in doing is we will be getting bees next spring and we're gonna start with chickens and we would love to kind of have like a little mini farm and maybe sell some stuff again maybe have some other side incomes for maybe like a rental property or something so we're not completely retired but we just get to spend more of our energy and time doing things that we fully the most important things to us should I think we did too early I'm thirty and arrows twenty-eight oh he said our agents and I know so I consider us retired so we're getting into Anchorage now but that was kind of a little backstory and if you ever wonder why we do the things we do it's just because we're kind of different and non non-conventional non-traditional so we're just trying to decide what's right for us of what we what feels good to us and we encourage everyone to do the same thing and not just follow you know said you have to do this so you have to be this way in life so I think we all need to make those choices for ourselves so with this move to Alaska we wanted to kind of get away from consumerism and having so much stuff we decided that we bottle this stuff with our hard-earned money and we never used half of it so we came here we downsized and it's kind of where we got our simple living Alaska name from just kind of doing things different this time simpler so when I Drive in the snow I like to get sideways I really pisses Ariel off now she's only got mad at me like three times this trick for attracting like that so if you've ever wondered what's ever wondered what Anchorage Alaska looks like this is it it's really actually I don't know no I don't think it's that bad no it's I think it's pretty cool yeah I mean it's not too big of a city and it's I mean you're right on the Cook Inlet and you're there's mountains all around you it's pretty nice pretty nice city and it's not that busy but we also were born and raised in the bay area of California so that's about as busy as it gets it is busy here I like took like a what is it called rush hour yeah but I mean it's I think the thing that I'd like to take home is that it's beautiful so I even if you live in Anchorage and you just go like 20 30 minutes out you're on top of the mountain practically it's yeah really just a nice state I think beautiful so we're heading to the BMW dealership I'm gonna pick up my anniversary gift for myself of the MW so one thing that I'd like to point out that as much as we do try to lead a natural lifestyle and I do care I think we both care a lot about the environment and just the changes we're seeing we do still we are still guilty of some other pleasures such as McDonald's wrap a simple it's a little irony there [Music] started with a cold glass we just ate we're stuffed we're in a blizzard we're gonna look for some Christmas lights this is Anchorage downtown during the holidays Ariel's cold bundled up this guy's wearing shorts [Music] [Music]

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Id: DlqySZTwFy0

Length: 15min 31sec (931 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 17 2018