Is my ideal a homesteader? Hippie? Farm girl? Crunchy mama?

 Update on the strawberries: still no sign.

I'm probably overthinking this, but I'm pondering identity. Some people, me included, love labels. I'm an ISTP, a Type 5 Wing 4, a Gryffindor. So is my quest for homesteading or an acreage related to some misguided identity crisis? City kid is gone, townie ain't working for me, so now I want to be a country girl?

I said to someone I wanted an amber necklace, like the type Joy (9mo) has for teething. I hear it has health benefits, like calming anxiety, relieving joint pain, etc. No problems I have. I just think they look cool. And like natural. Having an amber necklace makes you look like your a health hippie or something.

I talked to an adult with an amber necklace. I was asking, "what's your style on minimalist toys? Waldorf? Montessori?"

She's like, "I don't have a style. Me. It's just me."

I like labels. When you know the definitions, makes conversations easier to have. What is easier, "I like all music," or "I like American folk, Irish folk, and rock"? "I'm eating healthier" or "I'm eating pop-paleo with dairy"? "I'm in a relationship with Jesus" or "I'm a Southern Baptist." The first statement is true, but has no details. Maybe if you're on your first date and have already exhausted all your other ice breaker conversations, you can have a long drawn-out explanation, but if you're having a five minute conversation in church, it leaves me knowing nothing and with no way to know more. I can Google a label if I don't know it. Try Googling "eating healthy."

Ok, that was a tangent. What I'm asking is, am I doing a lot of this because I believe in it, or because I want to be seen as the associated label? Would I make my own soap because I actually have issues with "toxins" in "regular soap" or because I want to be a cool DIY homesteady-person?

Actually, on the soap thing, I'm hoping buying bulk castile soap lets me whip up shampoo, body wash, and hand soap for less and without having to run to the store. There's definitely a penny-pinching component somewhere. Like I'm sure if I just figured out the right store for the right product or whatever trick, I could save dollars. Not on the hand soap, that stuff is like 69 cents a bottle. But I could make foaming hand soap and put it in super cute rustic mason jars.

Do I believe in all organic cotton? Free range eggs? Grass fed beef? Filtering my already-filtered town water? Avoiding sugar? Having my kids avoid sugar? Wearing amber? Blue-light filtering glasses? Walking barefoot for "grounding"? Making my own granola?

I don't know. I'd seem like such a health person if I did it. If I didn't do it, how much would it actually hurt me?

I don't know, maybe I'll never be a Country Mouse.