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Books 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...

5 comments    health advice family
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Voluntary 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...

8 comments    family stress lifestyle
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The 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.

10 comments    advice home tips
The Simplicity On the Other Side of Complexity!68

Sustainable Success: Embrace Complexity & Create What Truly Matters

To create sustainable success, embrace complexity and create what matters most. This way, you create lasting results,and a simple, successful, and sustainable life or business, regardless of circumstances, events, or adversity.

11 comments    business life work
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The Promise of Simplicity: Doing More With Less

The promise of simplicity comes from doing more with less. The promise of simplicity is working less because you spend less. Simple living leads to freedom, and to a rich, successful, and sustainable life - a flourishing life - in harmony with the planet.

2 comments    life freedom simply
Creating an abundance of material leads to this kind of waste and clutter.73

Creating 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.

9 comments    happiness wealth secret
Imagine your simple, yet successful life!66

Simplicity and Success

Trying to "balance" life and work, or simplicity and success is like balancing a seesaw. It's difficult, and it doesn't work for long. But you can integrate life and work, and simplicity and success by working within the creative framework. What was difficult becomes much easier!

2 comments    life career success
Sticker Shock.  Adorable, perhaps.  Pretty?  We think not.76

Frugal 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 ...

14 comments    how to finance home
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The Frugal Bookworm: Get Books On the Cheap ... Or For Free!

Retail books are costly, especially if you add in the price of a latte at the bookstore cafe. Public libraries may not be open when you can get there Still, a person's gotta breathe, gotta eat, gotta read. (Not necessarily in that order.) So what's a frugal-minded bookworm to do?

8 comments    advice how to education
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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...

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