My wife is trying to sell her car. She still owed payments on it so I paid the car off from our savings with the plan being that she’d pay back our savings after she sold the car. It’s just easier to sell a car when you have the title in hand.
Living a Simple Life
About getting back to the basics of living a happy, simple life.
Archive for ‘Random Simplicity’
The Time Has Come…. We’re Going Home!
After nine months of planning and years of dreaming, the time has finally come. Next week Missy and I are going to head off to Europe for one last itch of the travel bug, and upon our return in two weeks we’ll be headed for Hillsville!
Homesteading, Back-To-The-Land, Rural Skills, Foodie, Self Sufficiency Books
When we bought “the farm” it was our intent to put our city house up for sale and maybe live in it for another year while waiting for a buyer. To our surprise, someone snatched up our little wannabe-urban-homestead the 2nd week it was on the market. Unprepared, we rented a duplex and found a caretaker for our new 15-acre property on the other side of the country.
Sometimes Life Just Isn’t That Simple
Be Better Off
You really can be better off by turning things off. That’s the premise of Better Off, a book by Eric Brende, which chronicles his 18-month journey of self-discovery in an Amish-like settlement somewhere in middle-America. I really enjoyed this book for several reasons. First, I like that Eric was exploring the balance between technology and simplicity and trying to find the right recipe for him and his family. If you read our “about” page or pay attention to this blog at all you’ll know why that appeals to me.
Q&A With Joel Salatin
This interview with Joel Salatin was originally published on one of my other websites – US Recall News. The questions center around food safety for that reason.
About Us
We're not technophobes or Luddites. We simply believe that people have lost some important things in the march toward progress. That is not to say progress and simplicity are mutually exclusive. We believe we can have both, and this site catalogs our journey as we try to do exactly that.