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Less Is Best: Minimal Living For An Uncluttered Mind

Americans, by nature, are a gluttonous people. You can find our hoggishness on our bellies and in the piles of “stuff” that fill our homes. But all this stuff isn’t doing anything for our us. In fact,...

5 comments    money freedom mind
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Learn to Sew

I frequently bump into people that tell me they sure wish they knew how to sew. Gone are the days where school's required women to take sewing classes. And a lot of men never got a chance at all. So what do...

13 comments    family fashion how-to
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Living in a Tepee

An 18 year old in Tennessee is choosing to live in voluntary simplicity by living in a tepee surrounded by 36 acres of wilderness. Why and how he is doing it, instructions to make a tepee and information about where to buy.

10 comments    life home people
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How To Make Yourself Invisible

There are many reasons why someone may want to make themselves "invisible" or disappear. Sometimes people just get tired of the everyday rat race, sometimes they just want a slower pace of life, or sometimes...

6 comments    life advice how to
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Top 10 Ways to Simplify Your Life

Most of us want to lead lives that are simpler and easier than the ones that we’re currently mired in. We want to spend less time at work and less time stressing out about things. We want to spend more time...

10 comments    life how to people
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Tiny Houses Have A Big Impact

It started in 1997 in Iowa City when Jay Shafer built his first tiny house. Now tiny houses have hit the bigtime. The movement is growing. Tiny houses are the next big thing.

102 comments    life home real estate
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Frugal Gift Giving for Groups: Family, Friends & Co-Workers

When gift-giving time rolls around, my ad-washed brain turns to cars, computers and fancy jewelry, and my checkbook laughs hysterically. Where's the fun in that? A big social circle is one of life's greatest blessings. On holidays and other gift-giving occasions, we all want to pamper our people. Here are some tips for enjoying the good times ... without the pain of a months-long financial hangover.

6 comments    life advice family
Inner Calmness Heals and is a Source of Inner Power 76

Seven Simple Steps to Mind Mastery

WARNING: This technique for eliminating stress and anxiety is very simple, but because we have been conditioned to complexity, not simplicity, there is the possibility that you may ignore it. On the other hand, Albert Einstein said, "If the answer is simple, God is speaking."...

2 comments    how to stress anxiety
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Simple Living: Reasons to Downsize Your Home

When it comes to simple living, it seems like a good idea to start with the largest thing you will ever own; your home. Ever since WWII we have seen a steady increase in the size of our homes. The average...

0 comments    family finance home
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Retire happily

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails....

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