Old Fashioned Barn Raising and Helping Our Neighbors
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What has happened to people that money becomes more important than people. People that are our neighbors, family and friends. Many will say to this that we need more money and without money we can't do anything. Well we need to change our mindsets back to being a community again. A real community where people help people no matter their creed, color, religion or other factors. Isn't that what we built this country for and about. Everyone is in the same circumstance. Banks are stealing our hard earned money making it difficult to keep our heads above water. Property values are dropping like flys and people are looking for other ways to survive.
Old Fashioned things that we thought was old fashion need to be brought back. We need to start helping our neighbors and family and friends again. We need to stop putting that almighty dollar out of our minds.
Barn raising was once and still is used by the Amish people. I can't see anything wrong with helping someone with their homes without being greedy like the banks are. Help them fix plumbing or fix a fence or spackle a wall or paint a room but get out there and help them. What you give is what you receive. Not necessarily exactly that but it comes back to you. Maybe you need some help with your home or something else and one of those that you helped with return the favor.
Use bartering for goods. We need to get back to this. Money is good for some things but you can't eat it. We have been conditioned to depend on money and to live in our separate families without helping our neighbor. I once heard that someone would do their yard or in front of their yard but the neighbor has to do his yard. What would it hurt to help your neighbor?
I even see it is the way we bring up our children. It used to be family living together. I mean all family and the babies spent their first year in the parent's room. Now it is separation as soon as they are born.
I experienced this huge rift that is growing all over the place. I asked that we have a community Garden here in our neighborhood. Instead of sure we would be happy to help I got some very negative answers. The answers were horrible. They told me that they have their own little gardens and they didn't think that we needed to share. We are and have been conditioned to think this and to be selfish. This needs to stop or we will all fail. The economy will prove this if we don't get out and help others.
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carrie, thanks for visiting. We aren't even going backwards to when we were neanderthals becasue they even lived in tribes where most of them slept in the same cave. It's scary to think of where we are going.
Thank you ,Lady for a true hub people helping each other out when in need. a lot of things has change and we do need to get back to caring about each other. Thank you for sharing. Godspeed. creativeone59
ceativeone, Thanks for comming by and leaving a comment. I was inspired to write this hub by my own experiences with the Banks and with people in my neighborhood. The comment about the community garden was right out of my neighbor in my neighborhood. I was shocked. I noticed it starting to come out in my husband too when he wants someone else to store the halloween stuff for the neighborhood party each year. I really don't mind having it here on my back deck or under the crawlspace. He has changed over the years too.
It's not only him either. Everyone is scare of lawsuits and anything that has to do with money or the effects of it. It is totally getting rediculous.
Thanks for coming by.
The only time you see people help each other is when a big storm blows through their town, the rest of the time they could care less. Great hub!!!
I think I saw something on craig's list about bartering time and help between neighbors. We do need some sort of forum where people could offer their skills in return for someone else's skills. I think people are willing to help each other, the hard part is getting the message out. No one likes to admit they can't change a faucet or are unable to replace their carpet. We did not used to be such strangers, but it is hard now. Who wants to set up a local "barn raising" web site?
I believe that helping neighbors is a good thing. It has been since the 1930's been constantly preempted by the government. Back in teh 1979's when we lived in apartments we had a couple of community gardens. They often make use of empty lots and otherwise unused land. Some companies even provided them for employees. Banks do have a place and I don't think they should be dsismissed as greedy.
Kashmir, Yes they are that way and that is a shame. There is so much more that we can do for our fellow man.woman and children and animals as well. Thanks for visiting.
Austinstar. You are so right! What happened to giving a dinner for the worlk that someone did/ I did and still do that, but alas people want money because of other people who are greedy.
I would go for that kind of group. I tried to start something like that here in my enighborhood but it didn't even get a chance because of all the negativity it got.
dahoglund, All I can say to you is that you may not have had the "pleasure" of dealing with a bank that steals your money like we have. It was several times too so we pulled our account out and are now paying in person or by money order. While talking to our creditors I found that it is widespread that banks are stealing money fom it's customers and making them go broke.
Thanks for visiting the hub and I do hope that we begin to grow together again like it used to be.
This is a lovely reminder - of how helping each other works so well. This is how my elders used to live and everyone thrived. This is also a reminder of how totally dependent we have become on money - which is controlled by others...making us nothing more than...consumers. And totally dependent.
Perhaps we will learn from hubs like this.
Thanks a million and rated up!
BdCreative, Thanks for stopping in and leaving you bit of information. Yes, we need to get off the system andinto the people and what really matters. Thanks for the vote.
Great hub, I just do not know why people have to be the way they are. (some people are like that, not everyone, thank God).
sunny, Thanks for the visit. I have found a lot more than I nwould have liked.
Our materialistic society has turned people into profit centers which is just plain wrong.... we can't go back to the old days, but we can go back to the old, eternal values. Thanks for the inspiration
You are correct Robie.
I agree. nowadays, it seems people don't even know their neighbors. it wasn't that way when I was growing up.
PDXKaraokeGuy, Exactly. People have become too proud and some have have been so suppressed they don't speak up anymore. The Amish and other groups aren't like that. Ask and it shall be given to you---but you have to ask first. I hope 2012 will be a year of pulling down barriers and people helping people. Prayers are good, but it's more helpful to go and do something for others.
yep. NOw, everyone seems paranoid and unfriendly, too busy with their own days to stop and meet a new neighbor. I try to change that
It seems the days of bringing a new neighbor a pie when they first move in are all but over. Thankfully you can find people off the beaten path that are still neighborly.
homesteadpatch, yes there are a few still left. Thanks for reading and commenting.
carrie450 19 months ago
I agree that this world has changed for the worst as far as helping one another. Most people only think of themselves and are teaching their children the same way.