How Many Is Too Many?

Ah, an interesting question this one, and the answer can depend of so many different things. How many houses is too many? I have just the one, and and satisfied with that, other people might have many houses, and there are various answers in between. I know a chap who has several rental properties, as well as his own home. And I wouldn’t be surprised if he said he has a holiday home as well.

This man has retired, and obviously earned good money at his job, and saved, or invested, or something. I didn’t have as hightly paid a job as he did, when I was ‘a worker’, and so I certainly have never had enough money to buy a rental property. My my husband and I , both more or less retired, both live good lives. We have enough of what we need, and sometimes too much of other things, but not often.

This is a way to live a good life, I feel, having enough, and not too much, of what we need, and some of what we want. We have enough money to pay our bills, almost all of the time. When we want things we usually have enough money to but them, and sometimes there’s money left over to buy extra things.

If I had lots of vegetables, more than we need, that would be a problem, trying to deal with the excess produce. If I had rental properties as well as the house I live in, I’d worry about the upkeep, getting the rent, looking after the people living in these houses …

Things like flowers, I don’t think you can have too many of them growing in a garden. If there are plenty, you can pick them and have them on display inside, while leaving others in the garden still, to look at, and enjoy. Trees, I’m sure you can have too many of them in some instances, but most of the time, having lots of trees is a wonderful thing!

Those lovely trees can attract birds and other creatures into yard, and most of the time that is a wonderful thing. But if you are growing fruit and vegetables, sometimes lots of birds can be a problem, unless you have ways to keep your produce safe. At our place we have a few strawberry plants growing in hanging baskets, and we decided that this year, we wanted to actually eat our strawberries again, instead of the birds getting them.

So we were fortunate enough to have some extra money, and bought some bird netting, so now we are able to eat some of those lovely strawberries, which always taste better than any you get from anywhere else! There aren’t lots and lots of strawberries, but just enough for us to have some every now and then.

So I think the best way to go is to have an ample sufficiency of what you like, and not much at all, of what you don’e like!