"Most of my life I've been a caregiver to my children. I've had seven children, and they're now all over the planet. I have one in Australia, three in California, one in Hawaii, one in Ohio, and one here in Florida. My first marriage, I had four children, and the second marriage - which was only a common law marriage - I had three."
"With my second husband, we built a house. When we split up, I freaked out a little. My husband paid all the bills and gave me money to do the grocery shopping. I wasn't the main breadwinner, and I wasn't bringing in any money aside from selling some art that I made, which doesn't add up to enough to raise my children. We didn't live in luxury, but we were able to live comfortably. When he left, he gave the house to me."
"I managed to buy a house with the money I got from the house we built, but it was too big. I invested and reinvested in property, and each time I did that, I made more money. It helped me keep going once the kids had grown up. Today, they call it flipping. I managed to live comfortably, and I don't care about gold or fancy clothes."
Linda Kemp, 84, mails letters at her son's law firm to help stay current on bills and to hold a valued job. Most of her life was spent caregiving for seven children who now live across the world. After two marriages and multiple property investments, she bought, sold, and reinvested in houses to support herself, a process she describes as flipping. She returned to school for a graphic design degree, worked designing software in her 50s, and later adopted an economical, environmentally conscious lifestyle that includes solar panels and modest tastes.
Read at Business Insider
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