"Everything is so expensive these days."

Says the person rocking the newest iPhone Pro Max (they literally just use it for Facebook and Temu).

Finance is a beautifully elegant con.

Or a gladiator!

That's my dream too. The struggle is that I'd prefer not to homeschool the kids, and it's hard to find that sweet spot where you have that kind of space and are in a good school district.

When my wife and I got our first apartment, it was a tiny studio. 15'x12'. But, as our family grew, we needed more space to accommodate the kids. We currently have 13 people in our household, and we built another extension on our house to bring it to 14 bedrooms. Sometimes I miss the simplicity of that tiny studio. Being able to clean our entire living space in like 20 minutes was pretty great. But the tradeoff of having enough space to build a big family is worth it IMO. If my life had gone differently, and I was just a single dude, or if my wife and I had decided to go the DINK route, I'd be fine in a tiny home.

But it was really nice being able to open my home to my niece when my sister went to prison and my niece had nowhere to go. When my oldest son's marriage imploded and he needed to move back home (with his kids in tow), it was nice to have the space to host them. I try to always have an empty room in case someone I love is in a bad situation. Couldn't really do that in a tiny home.

I also host most big family events, like Thanksgiving, Christmas, 4th of July and whatnot. I have a HUGE extended family, and we generally have ~50 guests in addition to our own household. Trying to host 50 guests in a tiny home would be impossible. Trying to cook enough food in a tiny kitchen would be an insane endeavor. Not to mention the idea of all those people trying to share one tiny bathroom.

That looks serene. I like it a lot!

Oh my. What a winner!!!

I stayed a few nights in a spartan that had been saved and lovingly restored. Man, they sure don't make them like that anymore.

That sounds like a great way to start the day.

what do you mean it's mostly butter? even peanut butter with added oil/sugar/salt is still some 85% peanuts. Or do you mean simply that it had a high fat content?

Fairly sure that seasonal berries would have been on the menu.

Honey as a sweetener seems viable

Greek yoghurt seems pretty likely anywhere cows were milked

The feudal lords also dit not have giga-yachts, enough wealth to buy social media companies and own about 50 politicians.

We had berries just growing everywhere along the streets and forests as a kid. Where the fuck did they go?

Healthy AF too!

Gruel isn't bad, it's just like a savoury porridge. Of course you can make it really shit, but you can do that with regular porridge/overnight oats, too.

Ok, I've got some cut oats and oat milk. How do I go about this overnight oats thing? It just goes in the fridge?

I'm interested but know nothing about overnight oats. Are they special oats, or just the usual oats and it's about the cooking/prep?

May I have some oats brother

Object Oriented Programming?

How do you survive off oats? I'm losing weight with BBQ.

Pretty sure they usually worked/lived on the land owned by lords, no?

"Peasant" was basically a farmer. Some peasants had land, many didn't. If you were a tenant farmer not only did you not own the land, in many cases the land owned you. In many cases you were born on the land and you "rented" it from the manor lord. That meant that you were allowed to grow crops on that land, but you owed the lord for letting you use his land. You'd pay that back with shares of your crop and/or labour on his crops. In return, he was responsible for defending you... but that meant he'd conscript you into his army and you'd fight the invaders.

If you didn't like that deal, too bad, if you were a villein you couldn't leave the land without the lord's permission. You weren't a slave exactly, but you weren't free to go find work elsewhere.

There were peasants who did own land, but it wasn't common. The equivalent today would be if you rented from a landlord, but you had to use a uber-jobs app that required you to do odd jobs for your landlord for free for 1-2 days a week.

No they don't. They're landless labourers.

As a European, i have no idea how large this is. Could be a football field, could be a dog shed

It really depends what you want to do. I like having a workshop / maker space and a home office. You need space for that kind of thing.

So it is oatmeal? The weirdest part is referring to it as "oats" then, we say the full name where I'm from like proper green-blooded Americans.

I like mine with chocolate brotein shakes instead of milk. Those go hard.