We all had to start the road to simplicity at the very beginning. So even if you’re a veteran eco-warrior, don’t belittle someone else’s humble beginnings. Let’s support each other in our path to living simply! Remember we’re all in different places in our lives.
Yes, you can still live the simple life, even in a Homeowners Association neighborhood. I’m sharing simple ways you might go ahead & live the simple life within HOA restrictions and hoping others will share what’s worked for them.
Self reliance and voluntary simplicity equals power. The advertising moguls would have you believe that you need them to do things for you – that many of those convenience items are just too complicated or time consuming for you to be able to do them for yourself.
Don’t buy into it! I’ve found that when I practice Voluntary Simplicity and Self Reliance that I feel empowered.
Empowered to do more, and to do for myself better and cheaper than they can and certainly with a greener footprint.
What in particular brought me to this realization? Read on, dear friends.
I quit doing New Year’s Resolutions several years ago, yet the aspirations I have on New Year’s Day for improving things throughout the new year have not been abandoned. And now they’re actually ACCOMPLISHED!
I can’t believe another year has come & gone. This year has certainly been good for RancherMan and me as we got back to business of running our ranch after my health fiasco of last year – we are so blessed! But now as the year draws to a close I thought if would be fun to share with you, my beloved readers, the top ten most popular posts of 2014. Grab a cup of coffee, settle in and join me!
Saving money on electricity is more than just turning off unused lights. Saving real money – cold, hard CASH – on your electric bill is easy. If you know where to look…
OK y’all, yesterday we started a two-part series about surviving in self-employment mode without the benefit of a regularly-scheduled corporate salary infusion on the side. I encourage you to read ‘Saving Money, Part I’ if you haven’t already!
The topics covered were how important pre-planning is before you ever make this independence leap, then adding the steps of recognizing “needs” vs “wants”, paying cash, buying only high quality, researching purchases, finding lower-cost alternatives, repairing instead of replacing things and buying used where possible.
But now let’s look into some more ways to break the corporate paycheck shackle so you can follow your dreams, whatever they may be.
This year I planted heirloom sugar pumpkins in my garden. And when it was time to harvest them I knew I’d first be able to enjoy them for a bit as decoration. I love the way those little pumpkins looked propped on our antique cast-iron Franklin stove.
But several days later I was in the kitchen enjoying the last of my favorite pumpkin granola. I knew that since I planted those delicious pumpkins for use in my granola it was time to cook those babies down into pumpkin puree.