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		<title>The Time Has Come&#8230;. We&#8217;re Going Home!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a mixture of telecommuting, self-sufficiency skills, frugal living, fertile land, and agritourism we hope to turn our dream of balancing technology and simplicity in rural Appalachia into reality.]]></description>
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		<title>Homesteading, Back-To-The-Land, Rural Skills, Foodie, Self Sufficiency Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Simpleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A gigantic list of book reviews about homesteading, self-sufficiency, sustainability, the back to the land movement, survivalism, preparedness, organic gardening and more.]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes Life Just Isn&#8217;t That Simple</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Simpleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;d pay back our savings after she sold the car. It&#8217;s just easier to sell a car when you have the title in hand.
Thinking the title was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reminder To My Future Self&#8230;</title>
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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>
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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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