So let's talk about what you saw this week, but first I have to finish one more chore
Okay now we have to go feed the chickens!
I promise, we'll get talking to what we saw this week and my thoughts on it, ooh hoo!
I'm so excited can hardly contain myself!
Family members give me food that got old on them so we don't waste anything
first thing I want to say is oh my word what excitement who would ever thought that
when I would make a change on Tuesday would make such a big change in my life
Ahhh I am so excited. I am just over the moon with...
I can't believe the response
I'm getting more views in the first three hours than I have in a whole day on some of them
I am so excited to share with you my life
everything I'm gonna share with you why I do things
So you've seen a lot this week?
You've had good questions
and in the course of the next couple weeks I'm going to share with you why I do what I do
The reasons... how how did I get here? How did I get on this one acre property? Where did I come from?
What was I like in my previous life, I like to say...
so we're going to do some rewinding and I'm going to share with you
all of the things that happened to me and how I got to where I'm at today
It's a fascinating journey and many people say that I should have wrote a book about what happened...
But right now I'm fulfilling my dream of just being able to share my life unfiltered with everyone.
I got the bandana in my head. Yes, sir, yes ma'am!
I'm just going to do what I like to do and that is to share my life
and you're starting to see my format.
you're starting to see you know in the morning in the afternoon and some of the evening
you're starting to see why I enjoy doing this and why I enjoy doing that
you're starting to see what makes up my day, what makes up my life
and I think what is really unique is you have a lot of off-grid channels
you know, you have a lot of people that chose to sell everything and live off-grid
And then you have people that you know are just regular everyday housewives and they have their you know
vlogs and all of their sharing of their life
then you have me and so where do I fit in, in all of this?
Well, I'm an everyday housewife with just a little bit of an extraordinary life
because I live in a way that so many Americans live
we are a rich nation, but so many of us silently live with not so modern conveniences
and in my situation was we were deep in debt and we wanted to get out of debt
and in order for us to get out of debt we bought what we could afford
not knowing what we were getting ourselves into and so I became a person that
was thrown into a situation I didn't know what to do about
I didn't choose to live off-grid and I didn't choose to live with non grid
I am on the grid because quite frankly it's a law I have to be on the grid where I'm at
but I didn't choose to have some parts of my life that didn't work
and we are out of debt
We have no debt and I don't want to go in debt to fix something up
and to be honest with you this property is not worth
putting ten fifteen twenty thousand dollars into it to fix it up
I'm gonna share all that with you
I can't sleep at night because I'm so excited because I have so much to share and I'm just freely sharing it
Doesn't matter how I'm looked upon, you know, maybe by family members or for people who know me personally...
this my life and I live it abundantly
Also, it's so important to me to share with you all that even in times when your life isn't that perfect
you can live in perfection and your happiness and joy in your heart
Do I always have a smile on my face and a song on my lips? Well, no I don't...
there are days that I cry there are days that I pout and I feel pity for myself
But those days are very few and seldom and I've realized now by learning about all of you
I have so much in life to be thankful for I have so much in life
that I took for granted and I bet you're wondering "well Tessie, how in the world what would you take for granted?"
I take for granted my health. I'm strong. I'm healthy...
I have no health issues. I have I'm not on any medication. I haven't been on medication for
20-some years and even then it was just for little things of this and that...
I don't have any ailments in my life as far as my health. And so I have all of these things that I am very, very
realizing that you know, I don't need to take it for granted and I'm just so excited about that
I live without some modern conveniences and a lot of you would say, that's hardship
That's nothing compared to somebody who doesn't have their health.
I can tell you looking in the camera that anybody and everyone would trade my living circumstance for their bad health or
for their you know diabetes or whatever they're facing
and so my hardships are not your hardships and maybe a lot of you I'm finding out
-gasp- shhhh!
are quiet too because you had the same thing! ha ha!
Who would ever thought you know, you guys are like "I don't have this working, Tessie...
I don't have that working Tessie!" and I'm like ahhh,
-laughs-
so it is just so exciting to open up this door of this kind of talk that a lot of people aren't really wanting to talk about
is it poverty? No, not necessarily...
is it you know, you don't want to spend? Yes, you know
I could probably take out a loan and would fix some things
but then I would go in debt. I will not go in debt! I've been in debt and when you hear my story
you're gonna totally understand why my husband and I will never get in debt again
you will understand the whole backdrop of my life
you will understand why debt is the most horrible word that we could ever think of
You know because we didn't choose the easy options to get out of debt...
a bankruptcy, we didn't get any government loans, we didn't get anything from people.
We worked our debt off ourselves, every single penny we owed we paid off
We lived much more frugal than we do now and we lived as if we were almost homeless, we didn't spend anything extra
and so I think now you can understand why the little dishwasher was such a blessing in my life
and the little washing machine that cost 149 dollars but it made a world of a difference
When I started out moving here, and then we found out all of these things were wrong
I didn't know there was products on the internet that can help me
I didn't know any of that and I didn't know there was things you can do to help your life...
and you guys really taught me all that! You're like, "hey Tessie, you know they have this and you know that you have that?"
but so these little things have really made a big difference in my life,
and I'm just so excited to share with you my my life and how I'm saving money
behind me I burned my trash, I don't have any garbage system
We recycle anything that can be recycled. But we burn whatever is paper and can be burned
That's just one thing that we save 200 dollars a year... in my area it's very laid back and so it's not forced upon us
You're gonna see how I use oil lamps, that saves me electricity
because the oil was gifted to me back last year and so for me the lighting was free
If I had to buy the oil, of course it would probably cost a little more but it was given to me.
I scrounge whatever I can, whenever there's things along the road that are free
and it's something I can use I pick it up man, I pick it up so fast
and as you all know last year I found a whole box of oil lanterns with oil that was free and I picked that up and I use it
And so I become really wide eyed to see what I can see
people know that I like to glean food and so people will say "hey I got this food I don't want it you want it?"
People generally don't like a lot of waste and so they'll give it to somebody like me who will use it up
Thank you everybody from the bottom of my heart, you have absolutely no idea
how you blessed me, my videos this week?
I cannot begin to tell you what that has done for me!
The support of knowing that you viewed me is just everything in the world to me just because I know that
Hey! You like me! You like what I do, you like to see what I'm doing.
You're not judging me, you're wanting to learn from me.
I always say this in life, we can use every circumstance two ways...
we can become better or we can become bitter... and I choose to be better and I hope that you choose that as well
and I hope that through my joyous life in the times of trial you will learn that you can be better too
and thank you for all of your support, for all of your advice, for all of the things that you know that I don't know and helping me
take care everyone, will see you guys tomorrow!