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In reply to the discussion: "Trailer park trash" [View all]For Freddie
(79 posts)My daughter is a certified organic gardener on estates,
farms in far Eastern Long Island. She lives on Shelter Island.
She hears this all the time. The elites and their spawn throw it around quite a bit. "Ignert" as my husband called them. I have lived in large affluent new homes, I have flipped vintage homes. And now I live in a pleasant apartment in Tucson. But the happiest I have ever been was when sold one of those big homes and chose a "modular home" 15X16 and put it on 2 acres up in Apache Co. Az at 7000 ft. to live in our version of a "Tiny Home" when no one gave such things respect. We were the first on the mountain to telecommute.
My husband was a mechanical designer and he designed tooling for the bio-medical industry. We were FREE, from pollution, traffic,
and all things suburban. We designed our home to withstand the winters without a furnace. Our gas stove warmed the whole home when I baked bread and cooked. We rescued animals and enjoyed wildlife. We put "a ceiling on material desires" and lived simply.
It was beautiful. Half mile from the Apache Nation and about 20 miles from the New Mexico boarder in what used to be Zuni hunting ground.
I will always love trailers. Lived in them as a student in college,
Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado,upstate Ulster Co., New York.
My youngest son was home birthed in "a trailer" in Ulster Co. NY.
Now if I had affluence I would choose a trailer designed wisely
and environmentally harmonious. But I am a "widow" enjoying my life in Tucson, my grand children and my Meditation Center.
I walk to Bookmans and collect historic books.
And I live frugally on S.S.
So..."trailer trash" "white trash" etc. is just an ignorant term used by ignorant people who have money and fear "the Other". And who do not know how to live well simply. But fear a life with out
material excess. If we were as ignorant as they we would now
label them Trumpy.