It's perfectly clear that we're not all the same. We're different ages, with children and without, married, single, straight an...

More than anything else, I am a mother and a worker. Shane and Kerry were 20ish, about to leave home to build their own lives, and although...

So far we've gone through listing our values and working out what our priorities are, claiming our home and some of the financial matte...

Let's talk about money today, specifically how we spend our money. Most of us know how much money we make in a month but very few of us...

Sandy made a good point in her comment the other day when she said:  We saved and budgeted hard years ago and cleared the mortgage. That i...

Before we move onto specific subjects such as budgeting, paying off debt, traditional skills, baking, cooking from scratch, organisation, r...

At first, staying as motivated as you need to be to live this kind of life looks like it might be too much. I worried if I could stay o...

Although during the previous 30 years we'd kept chickens, stockpiled, paid off debt, cooked from scratch, knitted and sewn, I felt a...

This is the first post in a series that will revisit the basic elements of simple life. It's about how we live here but also about the ...

I've been thinking a lot about the recent workshops I've presented along with Hanno and Tricia and if I had to come up with one wor...