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Most Recent Posts

• How To Make Homemade Ketchup (and It's Soy & HFCS Free)
• Make Your Own Soy-Free Hamburger & Hot Dog Buns
• Flowering Almond (Prunus glandulosa)
• How To Boil a Potato Perfectly (1880)
• Our Search For a Firewood Source Continues...
• There Was a Package in Our Mailbox Today
• Are You Tired of the Noise?
• What Do Bleeding Hearts Look Like When They First Come Up in the Spring?
• What Do Hostas Look Like When They First Come Up in the Spring?

Voluntary Simplicity

• Why We Chose Voluntary Simplicity — Sometimes There Is No Tomorrow
• What is the Difference Between
  Simple Living & Voluntary Simplicity?
• What Voluntary Simplicity Is NOT
• Thoughts About Voluntary Simplicity
• A Simple Country Life
• Downshifting To A Simpler Life
• No One Way To Do Simple Living Right
• Learning To Slow Down
• The Paralysis of Too Much Analysis
• Our Journey to a Debt Free Life
• Decluttering and Purging
• How To Stop Procrastinating
• Organizing, Decluttering & Purging
• Leaving Your Comfort Zone
• How You Choose To Spend Your Time
• Discovering Your "Enough"
• Less "Stuff" Doesn't Equal Happiness Either
• How To Be Happy In An Unhappy World
• A Simplicity Anyone Can Live With
• Practicing the Golden Rule
• Making the Most of Those Lifestyle Challenges
• Keeping Photographs, Purging the Item
• Seeing the Sunshine and a Happier You
• Accomplishing What Needs To Be Done... Efficiently, Quickly, and With As Little Stress As Possible
• Some Thoughts About Staying Motivated
• Some Thoughts on Accepting Personal Responsibility
• The Myth of Quality Time
• What Living in the Moment Means To Me
• That Sense of Balance
• How Do You Get Things Done?

Living a Simple Lifestyle

• The Wood-Burning Cook Stove in My Kitchen
• Things I Have Learned About Cooking & Baking with a Wood Stove
• Achieving a Simpler Life — Step 1: Track Your Spending
• Yes You CAN Learn To Do It Yourself
• The Biggest Obstacle to a Simpler, Truly Fulfilling Life
• 7 Grocery Shopping Strategies That Work For Me
• A Truckload of Logs
• The Final Cut & Summer Memories
• An Exercise in Perseverance
• A Downside to Our Rural Life
• Yesterday Was Not a Good Mail Day
• We Should Have Wondered Where All Those Rocks Came From!
• Our Garden Paths
• This Is Our Stone Path
• How We Make Compost
• How We Make Leaf Mold
• There's a Bear in Our Bird Feeder
• Digging Another Pond By Hand
• Our Hand Dug Backyard Pond
• Making Living Green a Habit
• A Recipe for a Natural Cough Syrup

Sensible Frugality

• Does Frugality Mean You Shouldn't Have Nice Things?
• Being Sensible About Frugality
• What True Frugality Is... and Is Not
• Don't Confuse Playing at Frugality with Living Frugally
• Getting Out Of Debt: Why You Buy
• Energy Conservation & Convenience
• Some Thoughts About Grocery Shopping & Sensible Frugality
• How Much Does It Cost to Feed YOUR Family?
• Homemade Laundry Detergent?
• Somewhat More Intimidating Than the Usual Do-It-Yourself Project
• Why I Don't Play the Coupon Game
• Removing An Enormous Tree Stump
• Money-Saving Tips for Buying Produce

My Simple Life

• Life is Getting Back to Normal
• It Was a Very Long Night
• 14 Things Unique To Me
• Fall, Grapevines & Weaving Baskets
• A Little Too Close For Comfort
• I'm So Glad Today Is Friday
• The Mystery Of Duck Duck Goose
• Our Uninvited Midnight Visitor
• Too Many Crackers Too Late At Night
• Lost On The Schoolbus
• My Brush With Politics
• When I Woke Up This Morning...
• And That's a Warning We Take Very Seriously!
• It's The Simple Things That Count
• Appreciating the "Now" of My Life
• My Husband's Solution To My Creative Chaos
• Childhood Memories
• Nothing Is Impossible
• There's a Pig in Our Garden
• My Knitted "Feather & Fan" Afghans

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