For a long time, I thought simple living meant leaving. Leaving the noise, the pressure, the constant feeling of being behind. I imagined in my dreams a small cabin somewhere quiet, maybe a bit of [...]

Much of modern life is organised around the assumption that more is naturally better. We have more possessions, more convenience, more options, more improvements to makes. The idea appears so often that it begins to [...]

To provide myself with food at low cost, I tend to look back in history rather than have a modern food cupboard. Lots of people would probably open my pantry and think how boring my [...]

I have been thinking back to my childhood in the 60s and 70s lately. It dawned on me how many ordinary services have disappeared in my lifetime, and how much daily life has changed because [...]

Nature is my safe space. It is where I escape to when times are hard. By the time Easter arrives, something has usually shifted, even if the weather remains cold and uncertain. The light lasts [...]

Over the last 10 years I have been working at improving my skills to help me thrive in my simple, frugal life. This has  helped me adapt, stopped life feeling tougher as prices have increased, [...]

It is important sometimes to have some frugal relief and spoil yourself, or have a nice experience. Frugal fatigue can set in otherwise. That can be dangerous. It is so easy to blow the budget [...]

The garden is slowing down and the leaves on the trees are starting to go yellow. This has given me a nudge to start getting ready for Autumn and the following winter. I can't believe [...]

Every day is a school day, and every year I like to feel that I am still learning in my kitchen and garden. I have been growing food and cooking for so many years, but [...]

Awe is an emotion that you feel when you are amazed, full of wonder, and feels like you are witnessing something extordinary. It is seen by psychiatrists as being positive for a person's wellbeing. I [...]

Twenty five years ago some of my frugal ways had people laughing at me. I would be called "stingy","mean", a scooge", "tight". One had to be frugal under the radar or else they were scorned [...]

As we are all acutely aware, there is a cost of living crisis in many countries. A large percentage of people are struggling to pay for accomodation, utilities, nutritious food, and just the basics in [...]

It is Mother's Day here on Sunday in the UK.  I am hard to buy a gift for as being older, I no longer need more 'stuff'. In fact I am trying to declutter my [...]

Stream lining anything makes it easier to manage.  This is why I like to keep my food simple.  If I was to make lots of difficult and sophisticated meals every week, it would cost a [...]

I try to keep my life as uncomplicated and as simple as I can. It is not always easy in this modern world. I make every effort to avoid the news, but it creeps in, [...]

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 [...]