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Grits or mansion? - Peregrinus - 08-13-2010
So, if you had a choice to live in a mansion and eat poorly, or live in a humble house and eat well, which one would you choose?
RE: Grits or mansion? - JoshC - 08-13-2010
Ur silly, P
RE: Grits or mansion? - Monica - 08-13-2010
Humble house and good food, of course!
RE: Grits or mansion? - @ndy - 08-13-2010
Nom nom nom ;D
Our house is falling apart cause we spend to much time at the allotment and growing things in the garden
RE: Grits or mansion? - jc2412 - 08-13-2010
If it's between grits and mansion, I would take the mansion (really don't like grits), but if it's between good food and mansion, I would build a really nice house but not one that straps you so much you can't still eat well!
RE: Grits or mansion? - fairyfarmgirl - 08-13-2010
LOL Very funny P--- So are you eating Grits these days? Such an incredibly diverse dish--- can dress it up for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks... it can be fried, baked, boiled steamed and reconstituted... very adaptable food stuff. I am eating Grits as well. Very challenging to eat Grits and live well---
)With Grits you can always build up and if room provides out too. We do it here in the Northeast of USA. Start with a pull behind trailer. Park it. Build several weatherized lean-tos against it and call it HOME. Add another trailer next to it. Build a roof over the whole kit and kaboodle add some walls and a wood stove and you got yer'self a double-wide. If you want to make it something special use plywood to create uniform walls-- shingle over the whole thing and that is a Palace by true Grit! Grits all the way!
A Home is in the HEART. --fairyfarmgirl
PS--The motorhome house on wheels is very similar to something I lived in for 2 years alongside the road... I raised my son to toddlerhood in such a home.
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RE: Grits or mansion? - AnthroHeart - 08-13-2010
I tend to like living in something low-key if possible. When I have to go out of town, the higher-star hotels make me nervous, so I always go for budget ones.
RE: Grits or mansion? - Peregrinus - 08-13-2010
Yes, I've been eating grits 'n greens lately
RE: Grits or mansion? - Questioner - 08-13-2010
Fun thread but false choice, P: I said you can't go buy a good grits meal in Beverly Hills. You can still cook 'em at home if you like. Or send Jeeves out on the private jet to go pick 'em up from the people who know how to cook 'em right.
jc's got the approach I like best. What's that much nice pragmatism doing on a thread like this one?
ffg, I find it interesting that yer batch o'trailers, all the way up to the Kennedy estate, are called by the same word "compound." I wonder, would a small house with a doghouse also qualify as a compound?
RE: Grits or mansion? - fairyfarmgirl - 08-13-2010
Q-- LOL
I would gander it is how one sees a compound! LOL A small house with a dog house would not be considered a compound. You need at least 3 other dwellings occupied by more than 3 people each on less than and 1 acre to be considered to be a compound. Ayah-- there's a compoun'd jus'a piece up that therah road... can't get her'ah from ther'ah. Yep, hard knowing not tellin'.
--fairyfarmgirl
RE: Grits or mansion? - Brittany - 08-16-2010
I'm all about the food. As long as I have a bed and a bathroom, I don't care so much about the living quarters. Plus if I had a mansion it would be a pain in the butt to keep it clean. I couldn't handle anyone else cleaning my stuff...I'm way too anal retentive in that area.