Posts in the “Voluntary Simplicity” Category
- All-Over Basket Weave Knit Afghan
- Keeping a Photograph… Purging the Item
- How Much Does It Cost to Feed YOUR Family?
- The Same Celery Plants, Year After Year
- A Challenge That Can Change Your Life
- When Christmas Isn’t So Merry
- How To Be Happy In A Mostly Unhappy World
- 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
- What Do YOU See?
- Why We Chose Voluntary Simplicity — Sometimes There Is No Tomorrow
- A Sense of Balance
- Hosta ‘Lancifolia’
- Freezing Raw Tomatoes?
- Wild Ginger (Asarum canadense)
- Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
- Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema atrorubens)
- And That’s a Warning We Take Very Seriously!
- What is the Difference Between Simple Living & Voluntary Simplicity?
- Our Favorite Cucumber Refrigerator Relish
- Not Compromising Our Scruples
- Seeing the Sunshine and a Happier You
- My Husband’s Favorite Sticky Buns
- Produce and Pesticide Residue — the Dirty Dozen and the Clean 15
- Something Else My Father Taught Me
- The Rewards Of The Simple Life
- Making Extruded Pasta From Scratch
- Digging Eight Quarts of Dandelions
- Discovering Your “Enough”
- Sempervivum ‘Purdy’s 70-40′
- Why I Don’t Play the Coupon Game
- One Year Ago Today…
- What’s in My Refrigerator?
- Bread Maker Honey Wheat Bread
- Sempervivum tectorum ‘Oddity’
- 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
- Micro Tom, the “Smallest Tomato Plant in the World”
- Overcoming the Paralysis of Too Much Analysis
- 9 Simple Things We Do To Protect Our Environment
- A Temporary Chaos
- How To Make Sweet Pickles One Jar At A Time
- One of Nature’s Small Miracles
- A Recipe for a Natural Cough Syrup
- Growing Hollyhocks the Easy Way
- This Is Our Stone Path
- An Exercise in Perseverance
- Just Bee-cause
- Our Traveling Orange Day Lilies
- When Wild Turkeys Come to Visit
- Being Rushed Along with the Rush
- Less “Stuff” Doesn’t Equal Happiness Either
- I Think It Would Be the Noise
- 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
- How You Choose To Spend Your Time
- Another Green Cleaning Solution That Really Works
- It’s Almost Time To Plant the Tomatoes
- “Kindness Is Like Snow”
- 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
- The Final Cut and Summer Memories
- Learning To Slow Down
- Our Load of Logs — A Progress Report
- Leaving Your Comfort Zone & Taking That First Step
- Making the Most of Those Lifestyle Challenges
- Appreciating the “Now” of My Life
- Do Hostas Seed Themselves?
- A Truckload of Logs — Our Winter Firewood Supply
- Achieving a Simpler Life — Step 1: Track Your Spending
- A Closer Look
- 196 Little Seedlings
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