• ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      To be honest, I want to do a calculation how much it would take to live without a job but baking/cooking everything from scratch, and other simplified life things.

      I feel like most retirement calculators assume you’re going to be living exactly as you were, but food, transportation, many living costs are higher to save time that a job takes up. So it’s partially a self-reinforcing cycle.

      Instead, I think in retirement my costs would go away down, and I’d at the same time be doing things that feel meaningful, like baking my own bread. But maybe I’m delusional.

      • MNByChoice@midwest.social
        3·
        3 days ago

        Then a book recommendation. “Make the Bread, Buy the Butter”.

        The author does the math on a number of products to see if one should make or buy. It factors in things like skill involved.

        I like it.

      • abcdqfr@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 days ago

        I don’t know how many years I rewround the clock while reading that entire paragraph but I am somewhere in the 1800s now surely. You can’t afford to live without baking bread for the village? How do you survive the winter on selling bread? I mean fuck this is a travesty if there ever was one… never mind the notion that Social Security is going away

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteenEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      It can take a lot of time though, especially some breads like baguettes are an all day event. I know that’s mostly waiting around for the yeast to fart enough but still for me it is mentally derailing to have to baby then along several times in a day