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FadedMullet

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1. Not the bit about the trash, but this was a thing among my people back in the sixties. Get a sturdy tent,.......

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Jul 8, 2026, 05:50 AM

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........a wigwam and some poles and go off and live on "government land" for free. There was the "Mother Earth News" variety of homesteading before that, sure, but this was somehow purer as there was no "ownership" of the land.

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