Do you know the story of the Little Red Hen?
She is basically a hardcore homesteader – she wants to have some bread, so she grows her own grain, harvests it, mills it into flour before baking it into a beautiful loaf that she eats all by herself.
As a parable in the the world of finance, I assume she would end up with an excess of bread, sell it to the other animals in the story, re-invest the funds into her business and basically take over the ranch/farm, keeping a close eye on her finances so she’s never ripped off by that layabout cat.
When I was little, I loved the theme of self-sufficiency that ran through that story.
I didn’t need a rat, cat or dog to help me out! I could do it all by myself, with just a little hard work!
And maybe in another time, that is what this blog post would be about.
But not now during Covid, it isn’t!
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