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Homesteading Tips – Visual Aid

If you are making the move from suburbia/city to rural living, there can be quite an exciting learning curve. Even if you aren’t making the ‘move’ physically, you may be moving to a more frugal, do-it-yourself type way of life no matter where you live. If that is the case, please check out this youtube [...] Read more

A picture’s worth a thousand words …

  When learning to homestead, or even dreaming about homesteading, I would have loved to have someone help me SEE things that I could do. Alas, growing up in suburbia many skills needed by a homesteader (or a home maker for that matter) were not passed down to me. They were perceived as not needed. [...] Read more

One BIG New Year’s Goal for the Homestead: ORGANIZE

Whether you live in a an urban apartment or on a ranch on a huge multi-acre spread, organizing is one of the top resolutions for many people this New Year.  It usually comes in third on the list, right behind health related and financial related issues. I believe that if this were the only goal for the New Year, [...] Read more

The Homesteading Mindset

Developing the mentality of a homesteader doesn’t mean you have to live on 20 acres and butcher livestock, or have an acre garden.  It is something that anyone can do, anywhere, anytime - simply think differently.  With a few tweaks of a thought process, one can develop the homesteading mentality and use it in the most packed urban Read more
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Grocery Tips Expanded

After writing my ‘three-part’ monster below on May 30th, I got to thinking how those tips really need a bit more clarifying for those who don’t know how to know how to use them to the fullest. The next three tips will be stretching out the list a bit to make sure it makes more [...] Read more

Grocery Shopping Tips

Remember back when you could shop a few different grocery stores across town to get the better deals at each? Well, my tip for today is….”watch out”…..if you are still stuck in that as a habit, it may not be as frugal as it used to be due to the rise in gas prices. We [...] Read more