Let’s face it – the economy sucks. I’m finding that even I am having problems making ends meet no matter how hard I try to slice my budget, no matter how hard I try to stay at home six days a week. Frankly, it’s impractical and a horrible way to induce a social disability into your own life. When I go to church services on Sunday I’m almost shocked with human interaction outside of my own household. So how can you better save the dollars without compromising your social life?
You invite people to move in with you.
That’s right – complete strangers, or the occasional couch surfer. Community living isn’t a new phenomenon. Christians have been doing it for centuries, it was done during the heart of the Great Depression in the early 1900’s, and it’s still a model being adapted into modern day society.
In fact, it’s safe to say that it might even be a fad. Many newly weds are resorting to living with one another now, oftentimes having anywhere from 2-4 couples living under one roof – all in the first year of marriage! On top of that, countless twentsomething’s are talking about the appeal community living has.
Some even sell everything and journey around the world for a year together.
I read an article on CNN the other day that talked about the same thing – about a family that opened it’s doors to many others in an attempt to help them out. The result? A close-knit family “and although they may not all share blood, they are bound by respect and affection for each other…”
Interesting.
Now I’m living in community, also, in a house with six other people, so I guess I shouldn’t “dog “on it too much. But I’m wondering what you’re all doing to survive the downturn of the economy?
