I’m really pleased we have no debt. Rising interest rates, high fuel prices and skyrocketing food prices are quite common world-wide now and...

I knew the comments we'd get for the previous post would be wonderful. They're much too good to be left in the comments, so I'm...

February, week 2 in The Simple Home While I knew from a young age that I would work when I was older, it didn’t occur to me until much la...

Michelle posed an interesting question over at aussieslivingsimply this morning. She asked "Is it possible to live well on the age pen...

We've had two days to think about cutting costs and getting into the right frame of mind to start saving money. By know you should hav...

Last Friday I linked to a forum post written by one of the members who is working on reducing her spending and doing the grocery shopping ...

The economic crisis seems to be lingering longer than anyone predicted. We see various indicators starting to predict slow improvement bu...

We went to see the cardiologist yesterday.  He has booked Hanno in to the local hospital next Monday for an Angiogram. We have no more new...

Why is starting so difficult? Taking that first step often stops us in our tracks, it seems too difficult, it starts us thinking about the &...

I still get emails fairly frequently asking me to define simple living and if I can explain how to live like Hanno and I do.  Many of the ...

* No one would apply for our jobs. We work long hours, have no days off, we have to balance our budgets no matter what the circumstanc...