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	<title>Living a Simple Life &#187; Simple Thoughts</title>
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	<description>About getting back to the basics of living a happy, simple life.</description>
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		<title>I Deleted My Facebook Profile But We Still Have a Fan Page</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Simpleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just deleted my Facebook profile because it was complicating my life. I'm all about technology, but we are also interested in simplifying our lives, whether that be through technology or the lack thereof. We try out different things and see if it makes our lives more simple or more complicated. For instance, pioneers didn't have chain saws, but there is no way in hell I'd live without mine. But I can live without Facebook.]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Accustomed to Life On a Farm</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mrs. Simpleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I look out the window to see Donkey and two cows galavanting their way through the backyard. Everett hops up to run out the door and herd them back into the pasture. So naturally, I hop up to grab the camara and here's the short version of what happened next...]]></description>
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		<title>What Would You Do If You Could Not Fail?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Simpleton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[at leat someone would hear me scream]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading the second chapter of &#8220;At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream&#8221; when I came across this simple, yet profound, question: What would you do if you could not fail? I&#8217;d heard it somewhere else before, but hadn&#8217;t really given it the attention such a question deserves. I immediately went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mrs. Simpleton&#8217;s First Post</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mrs. Simpleton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[crafts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sash]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been working on a few sewing projects such as making curtains and pillows for our new place (I will post some pics when I&#8217;m all done) and I have been adjusting my craft room to make manipulating fabric a little more manageable. I found this large wooden table in the upstairs of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I should be working but I&#8217;m so tired from working&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.livingasimplelife.com/i-should-be-working-but-im-so-tired-from-working/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 03:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Simpleton</dc:creator>
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		<title>Friday Night at the Floyd Country Store</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Simpleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We went over to the Floyd Country Store to see some good ol' fashioned bluegrass music. It was a banjo picken', upright bass smackin', guitar strummin', harmonica blowing, sweet voice singin' good time.]]></description>
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		<title>The Country: Where Sayings Come From</title>
		<link>http://www.livingasimplelife.com/the-country-where-sayings-come-from/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Simpleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But that is not the only saying I've come to realize in literal terms. Here are a few others that have taken on a new - or rather OLD - meaning for us...]]></description>
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		<title>Reminder To My Future Self&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.livingasimplelife.com/a-reminder-to-my-future-self/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Simpleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes along the road of life we lose track of what was important to our earlier selves. It could be that we've strayed or ben tempted off the path, but more often our older selves just have different values and priorities than our earlier selves. Still, it is important to be reminded of our values and priorities as they were at a given point in time so that we might adjust our course accordingly.]]></description>
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		<title>Giving &amp; Receiving Useful Gifts</title>
		<link>http://www.livingasimplelife.com/giving-receiving-useful-gifts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Simpleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got a Poulan Pro 18-inch 42cc gas-powered, chainsaw for Christmas. It's the kind in this chainsaw comparison. Along with it I was given some stocking stuffers like work gloves, ear plugs and some smaller gifts like a book on chainsaw maintenance and helmet with a face shield for cutting wood. I gave my wife, among other things, several sewing and kitting books, some contraption that helps her ball up hand-spun yarn, some wool... Next year she might get an actual spinning wheel, but the darned things cost over $400 new so she's fine with a drop spindle for now.

The thing that bothers a lot of us simple-life enthusiasts about Christmas is the compulsive consumerism it fosters. But for us it isn't so much the tradition of buying gifts for friends and family - because there's something special about giving, after all - as it is about the TYPES of gifts we used to give and receive.]]></description>
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		<title>On Community</title>
		<link>http://www.livingasimplelife.com/on-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Simpleton</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.livingasimplelife.com/?p=78</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Does community exist in the city? You betcha!</strong> But people really have to work at it. Community exists in the countryside whether you want it or not. When you go into town for something you can bet that you'll see several people you know. When you go out to get the mail you can bet the neighbor will wave...]]></description>
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