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79Living 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.
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73Frugal Hair Care: Do It Yourself, Naturally!
Ever suffer from a severe Bad Hair Day? A day soooo bad, it drove you straight to your friendly neighborhood salon, supermarket or drug store in search of a cure? And did you walk out of said establishment with your head held high, and your paycheck laid low? Read On ...
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72Free WiFi in the San Francisco Bay Area
Bay Area access points are grouped by type of place (e.g., libraries, coffeehouses, parks). I'm fussy about writing environments, so I've looked but never found a list sorted by place, until I wrote this one.
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69Simple 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...
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69Frugal 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.
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65Books That Radically Changed My Thinking—Affluenza the All-Consuming Epidemic
Affluenza, The All-Consuming Epidemic (ISBN-10: 1576753573, 2005) by John De Graaf, David Wann, and Thomas H. Naylor, is a book that started as a PBS Documentary about American consumerism. This 288-page...
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72The Frugal Housekeeper: Your One-Stop Pantry, Medicine Cabinet and Broom Closet
One can easily spend hundreds of dollars on fancy chemicals with fumes that do nasty things to skin, lungs and the environment. BUT ... we can replace a lot of the fume-y stuff with natural products we're probably already buying for the kitchen pantry.
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68Voluntary Simplicity
In the past few years there has been a fundamental shift among a large group of people as to how we live in the United States. Long known as a consumer society, many people have eschewed this lifestyle and...
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72Creating Abundance? Or Sufficience?
Creating abundance in material ways can clutter your life. You create real wealth - joy, fulfillment, happiness, meaning - when you create sufficience. Sufficience means "just enough." Life can be simpler, more sustainable, and richer with meaningful abundance, if we practice sufficience.
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72Frugal Software: Open Source, Public Domain, Shareware & Freeware
Why pay retail? You don't have to sacrifice functionality or fun -- or compatibility with everyone else's software -- for the sake of thrift. There are alternatives.
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