Posts in the “Simple Living” Category
- Keeping a Photograph… Purging the Item
- How Much Does It Cost to Feed YOUR Family?
- A Challenge That Can Change Your Life
- What True Frugality Is… and What It Is Not
- What Voluntary Simplicity Is NOT
- Cooking & Baking with a Wood Stove
- There Is No One Way To Do Simple Living Right
- Accomplishing What Needs To Be Done… Efficiently, Quickly, and With As Little Stress As Possible
- Some Thoughts About Grocery Shopping & Sensible Frugality
- Does Frugality Mean You Shouldn’t Have Nice Things?
- Yes You CAN Learn To Do It Yourself
- Our Garden Paths
- For One of Us It Is a Totally Relaxing Experience
- Why We Chose Voluntary Simplicity — Sometimes There Is No Tomorrow
- Freezing Apples For Pies
- A Sense of Balance
- Freezing Raw Tomatoes?
- What is the Difference Between Simple Living & Voluntary Simplicity?
- Our Favorite Cucumber Refrigerator Relish
- Not Compromising Our Scruples
- My Husband’s Favorite Sticky Buns
- Produce and Pesticide Residue — the Dirty Dozen and the Clean 15
- The Rewards Of The Simple Life
- Making Extruded Pasta From Scratch
- Digging Eight Quarts of Dandelions
- Discovering Your “Enough”
- Why I Don’t Play the Coupon Game
- One Year Ago Today…
- What’s in My Refrigerator?
- Bread Maker Honey Wheat Bread
- What’s in My Pantry?
- What Do Hostas Look Like When They First Come Up in the Spring?
- An Intangible Something Has Been Lost
- After the Storm — Day 3
- Our Experimental 100% Leaf Mold Gardens
- Don’t Confuse Playing at Frugality With Living Frugally
- I’m Sure There’s a Story in There Somewhere
- Overcoming the Paralysis of Too Much Analysis
- 9 Simple Things We Do To Protect Our Environment
- How To Make Sweet Pickles One Jar At A Time
- A Recipe for a Natural Cough Syrup
- This Is Our Stone Path
- There’s a Bear in Our Bird Feeder
- Visual Proof That Nothing is Impossible
- We Should Have Wondered Where All Those Rocks Came From!
- What Will Ten Dollars Buy Where You Live?
- Valuing the Ordinary
- The Destruction of My Sempervivums
- A Simplicity Anyone Can Live With
- New Government Guidelines for the Average Cost of Food at Home
- Somewhat More Intimidating Than the Usual Do-It-Yourself Project
- Another Green Cleaning Solution That Really Works
- It’s Almost Time To Plant the Tomatoes
- Things Could Be a Whole Lot Worse
- The Joys of Rural Mail Delivery
- Some Thoughts About Raising Free Range Chickens
- My Winter Herb Garden
- The Biggest Obstacle to a Simpler, Truly Fulfilling Life
- An Amazing Natural Wood Stove Cleaner and Polisher
- What Has Happened to All the Birds?
- The Reality of Dial-Up Over a Phone Line That Has Been Left to Deterioriate for 36 Years
- Have Necessities Become Luxuries Because of the Recession?
- Our Absolutely Amazing Fall
- 7 Grocery Shopping Strategies That Work For Me
- Hulled Corn or Samp — What It Is and How To Make It
- Wolf Spiders
- The Final Cut and Summer Memories
- What Our Finished Compost Looks Like
- Learning To Slow Down
- Leaving Your Comfort Zone & Taking That First Step
- Making the Most of Those Lifestyle Challenges
- A Truckload of Logs — Our Winter Firewood Supply
- Achieving a Simpler Life — Step 1: Track Your Spending
- 196 Little Seedlings
- Composting in a Garbage Can
- A Reasonable Dial Tone
- Will the Squeaking Wheel Finally Get Some Grease?
- A Downside to Our Rural Life
- Inexpensive “Cold Frames” — Our Solution to Our Short Growing Season
- Why We Got Rid of Our Compact Fluorescent Bulbs
- Growing & Harvesting Garlic
- Energy Conservation & Convenience — A Trade-Off?
- Does the Electric Company Really Need My Social Security Number?
- If It Still Works, Why Do I Need a New One?
- How Much Are You Spending For Groceries NOW?
- When Voluntary Simplicity Really “Works”
- Being Sensible About Frugality
- Elderly Vehicles, Emergency Funds, and a Panic-Free Crisis
- Real Advice for the Current Economic Situation
- Living Frugally Without Feeling Deprived
- The Wood-Burning Cook Stove In My Kitchen
- A Whiny Dryer Can’t Be A Good Thing
- How To Save Tomato Seeds For Planting Another Year
- Some Thoughts About Voluntary Simplicity
- Electric Rates, Appliances, & What They Cost To Operate
- Trying To Keep Heating Costs Down This Winter
- Tomatoes From My Garden On Christmas Day
- Sometimes You Should Complain
- Mock Maple Syrup — Made From Potatoes
- Nature’s Free Mulch — How We Make Leaf Mold
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