I have often thought that modern society has divided into two camps – adults and children. This might seem quite obvious to you but I don’t ...

It's easy to get caught up in posts about producing food when we're trying to live a frugal and sustainable life but the truth of it...

According to our local news, grocery prices will continue to rise along with the fuel price in the coming months. Almost everything we consu...

Today I want to talk about some minor changes we are making to the swaps. We have decided that we want the swaps to better reflect our simpl...

The link to our photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/down-to-earth_swap_photos/ from Annet to Julie (above) and from Glenda to Nancy ...

There is always something to do in the garden at the moment. I love the photo above, it is of Hanno planting tomatoes with the chooks watchi...

A wonderful parcel arrived a couple of days ago. It was from my swap partner Tracy. As well as sending some great seeds, she also sent a Dow...

After a few days writing about budgeting and money I want to balance the scale today on what really spins my world. I want to tell you about...

Hopefully this will be the last post about money for a while. Our budget is an important part of our simple life. It gives us a spending pl...

Hanno and I spent two hours on our budget yesterday. We checked old bills and we had our little (solar) calculator running hot. We put 2 and...

There have been many emails and very thoughtful and helpful comments to my previous post. Thanks to everyone who contributed. Every comment ...

We have come to the sad realisation that we are not makings ends meet. In the past month our fuel costs have risen from $120 a month to $150...

I'm really pleased so many of you are interested in starting to stitch. It's a wonderful way to make beautiful gifts and it will hel...

I want to thank everyone who took the time to leave a comment on by anniversary post. I was quite amazed at all the comments and read each o...

Thank you to everyone who entered this draw. I'm quite humbled by the number of you who would like to own the stitchery. There can be ...

Year 2 Day 1 ;- ) I am absolutely overwhelmed at the messages of friendship sent in the previous post. Thank you, everyone. I'll come ba...

One year ago today I pressed the Blogger "publish" button for the first time and entered blog world. It seems like just yesterday ...

I want to encourage every one of you who choose to live simply to do it on your own terms. There is no rule book for simple living, we a...

Here we are, just a couple of crazy kids, about to set off to pick up our chooks on Saturday. I didn’t want to garden yesterday. I was tired...

It's Mother's Day in Australia today. Mother's Day - the one day of the year when we eat strange looking breakfasts and wear mac...