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CAMPING IS DIFFERENT! You camp in the wilderness, not next door to someone else's house!
We're under that assumption because you said so. I'm talking about a collective "you" meaning you and your husband.
You have said you wouldn't dare dump your waste outside, and in the same breath said if he does it, you can to. We're only responding to what you are saying, then you get all defensive.
You are getting a bit, well over the op with the emotion here. And badgering
Over someone living in a garage, bringing water to their home, and going to the bathroom outside.
We have a toilet and I often choose to do such, and yes, we have neighbors. They cannot see.
I do not like being in confined spaces, sometimes, I just feel like going outside. It feels more natural.
But that's beside the point.
She is doing great. I think there is alot of jealousy here about how much she has achieved, with her multiple minimum wage jobs. When there should be praise instead.
You are getting a bit, well over the op with the emotion here. And badgering
Over someone living in a garage, bringing water to their home, and going to the bathroom outside.
We have a toilet and I often choose to do such, and yes, we have neighbors. They cannot see.
I do not like being in confined spaces, sometimes, I just feel like going outside. It feels more natural.
But that's beside the point.
She is doing great. I think there is alot of jealousy here about how much she has achieved, with her multiple minimum wage jobs. When there should be praise instead.
I work in a code enforcement type field so that's the perspective I'm coming from. There seems to be an assumption by some that those posters who find this way of life unacceptable are either wealthy or weighed down by debt. I am neither, nor am I the least bit jealous of the op.
The kitchen and bathroom are not just downstairs...they're at the in-laws' house, which the OP says is a distance away.
At first it seemed like it was blocks away, but really not that far - think of a detached garage away.
She is going to be living close to these people for the next 40 or so years - why not try to get to know them.
I always got along well with my several sets of in-laws - lol. But then I am the type of person that can get along with almost everyone.
I am more upset, if I can be upset for someone I don't even know, by the things she is going through.
I know this will make the OP mad, but I think she needs to get away from this situation.
But then she did say that her father was ultra frugal, which then makes me wonder, why didn't she already know how to wash dishes or bathroom situation from that experience? Did she live with her mom?
If you enjoyed living like that, you would be gung-ho and giving people advice not asking. It has been three years.
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