I sometimes write content for other frugal bloggers, and one was asking me to write some content for her about living a slow, frugal life.  She was kind of wanting a blue print of how [...]

I asked my Face book group what they do to keep their sitting rooms cosy whilst remaining frugal.  These are some of the things that they come up with. Have different cushion covers to the [...]

For years I was trapped in a fast life.  I was juggling parent hood as a single parent, a full time responsible job, the improvement and the upkeep of my home, studying, and a tiny [...]

Not that many years ago, everyone's lives were ruled by the weather and the seasons. Living by the seasons was a necessary way of life in order to survive.  Now, seasonal living has almost been [...]

I think about food security a lot at the moment with everything that seems to be happening in the world. My time line, the media. and my YouTube seem to be filled with scary stories [...]

Life has been a bit stressful recently and I have been ill. Over the last couple of months my bedroom has become a tip and a dumping ground.  It is like a teenager's bedroom.  Today [...]

The thing that I like about growing my own food, preserving, and foraging, is that a lot of the food that we eat has a story.  Thankfully I am not just using random things that [...]

This week I went on a retreat that taught some skills of self-reliance.  It included basket weaving, making toiletries from nature, archery and making fire by friction.  These skills might seem a strange thing for [...]

Many of us have this idyllic dream of living in the countryside and being self-sufficient, but for most of us that is not achievable.  I know that even if I won the lottery now that [...]

I thought that I would share some of the really small habits that have improved my life. Individually, these daily things that I do may not have transformed my life, but together they have had [...]

THIS IS THE YEAR I have decided that 2023 is the year that I declutter my house once and for all.  I sorted my Mum's house after she died and it took me months as [...]

CHANGING MINDSET I often get messages from people asking what they need to do to simplify their life. They ask what they should do first. Should they declutter? Should they work less? Should they become [...]

Simplifying your life mean some thing different to every person.  To one person it might be giving up everything to live in the countryside and keeping chickens and goats, and to another it might be [...]

Living my simple life, the weather and the seasons impact on my money saving routine, how are use my house, my frugal habits, and how I spend my time.  I didn't really realise it until [...]

People ask me what I mean when I say that I live a simple life. I am not, as people often imagine, living on a plot of land in the countryside, away from people. I [...]