You forgot about water. Wells can get pretty expensive to drill. Ideally you would want your well close to your living dwelling. Waste is another thing, septic systems and grey water systems have an expense too.
You can collect rain water but you can't rely on that. I have heard of people having potable water trucked in and held in a large storage tank. That would be an expense every time you had to have it filled.
You forgot about water. Wells can get pretty expensive to drill. Ideally you would want your well close to your living dwelling. Waste is another thing, septic systems and grey water systems have an expense too.
You can collect rain water but you can't rely on that. I have heard of people having potable water trucked in and held in a large storage tank. That would be an expense every time you had to have it filled.
For tens of thousands of years, our ancestors have been able to find water without expensive well drilling rigs.
Again, this is an option most people are t familiar with, but hand digging wells, and manually driving them with hand tools is still an option. .
Nothing on a homestead is easy, but it comes with freedom that can't be rivaled.
When people want water, they find water.
When people need to relieve themselves, an outhouse is always an option.
No expensive tanks, no wasted fresh water being flushed..
I haven't forgotten about water, or a septic system. Those are options. Not the water, it's mandatory, but the swmewage is an option.
I have built 4 septic systems over the last decade, and never paid a dollar, and all of them are still working.
It's easy to obtain large storage containers.
Most homesteaders are composting their solid waste, or using it to create methane.
But a camper comes with waste tanks, and water storage.