Raleigh Green Home Builder | Energy Saver Houses for Sale | Olde Heritage Custom Home Builder - Zebulon, North Carolina

Olde Heritage Builders constructs energy efficient homes that have better indoor air quality and many other attributes. We also help people make their existing homes more efficient and healthy as well. While I take great pride in my business, I am more concerned about how I am as a human. I love my family. I give all my endevers my best. I want to be a giver not a taker. I want to help make the world a better place. Now that you have an idea of who is talking to you, our focus will be on the simple lessons I learned as a young boy are still relevant today.

Lesson #1- Don’t buy things you don’t need, can’t afford, or won’t help your family.

As a green builder our message is all about using resources such as electricity, gas, water, and materials more wisely in order to conserve money and resources. My grandmother taught me lesson #1.

She lived in a nice, comfortable home which she took great pride in. For her it was a culmination of hard work between her husband’s labor and her taking care of the family. It wasn’t anything special, but it was her home. She never envied anything anyone else had or cared a thing about “keeping up with the Joneses.”

At some point, as a nation, we entered a competition to see who makes and spends the most money on homes, cars, and clothes. They all got bigger and more expensive. At points in my life I to wanted more and bigger; however,  the “Great Recession” we are all in has been a wake up call for all of us. Maybe we all can come down from the clouds to a more sensible ways to live our life. Green homes that are designed well for use of space, use less electricity, are more durable, and require less money to maintain. My grandmother would say these were good things.

Lesson #2- We are put on this earth to help one another.

The world my grandparents grew up in was hard. The work was difficult and the pay was low; however, they were happy. They loved each other, their kids, and their community. Every family - both black and white - helped one another make a living, raise children, grow crops, and care for the sick and elderly. As a child I got a small taste of that. Now as an adult it seems we are all too busy or care too little about our neighbors to go back to that way of life.

In general we all make more money, live in bigger houses, and don’t have to grow our own food, but I think at times we are not as content. We live in different times, but I think we can boil it down to something very simple: Life is a mixed bag of chores. There are things we need to get done each day. Along the way you can be a giver or a taker. Life used to be almost full of givers and a few takers. Now, there are many more takers then there used to be. People are in our lives who take too much of our time, money, energy, and even our soul. When we are a giver and surrounded by other givers, life is a beautiful thing. We will always have bad times in our lives, but I pray someone will be there to help us all get through by giving of themselves.

I could go on for days about how beautiful of people my grandparents were and the lessons I learned from them. If you are a parent, grandparent, or just someone’s friend, make sure you give of yourself. We all need one another to learn from. That’s how human kind has evolved to this point.

Do your part today.