Our no spending mission ends today. I know a few of you had to make small purchases but you got back on the horse and trotted to the finish ...

One of the things I really enjoy about my simple life is that I've taught myself to make many things I used to buy. I'm pleased that...

How are you going on your no spending task? I know Pippa has bought more milk for her boys, it's incredible how much milk teenage boys ...

Today we'll be thinking about how to use less electricity and water. This part of the audit is another one where if you can reduce your...

My latest dishcloth, finished yesterday. Please read this old post first. Today we'll talk about getting rid of 'disposable' pap...

These are links to some blogs for backup reading on the pantry and stockpile. This is an important subject that will benefit most of us whe...

Food is an important part of everyone's life; we have to eat every day for as long as we live. And that is one of the reasons we need ...

Hello everyone, thank you for joining me in this most important monitoring task. I hope that through these simple audits, we'll all be a...

This is one of our Biggest Kitchen Table discussions. We have been scrutinising our lives again. While sitting on the verandah yesterday, Ha...

The concept of the world's biggest kitchen table was hatched in January when we discussed chickens; now we go on to preserving/canning i...

We'll start our kitchen table talks today with the topic, chickens in the backyard. I want to encourage you all to get involved in thi...