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• Day 28 of the January Money Diet – Reduce Food Waste

  
  Happy Simple Living — Authority: 110
  “The remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served us nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” ~Calvin Trillin It just kills me to discard spoiled food that we didn’t eat. One of my goals this year is to make better use of leftovers. The whole concept of “zero ...
  23 hours ago

• Day 26 of the January Money Diet – Make Something From Scratch

  
  Happy Simple Living — Authority: 110
  Today’s challenge is to make something from scratch that you might normally buy at the store. Here are some ideas to get you started: Graham crackers Dim Sum Pita bread Latte Gingersnaps Barbeque Hummus Pizza Ricotta cheese Bread Granola Chocolate truffles What do you love to ...
  2 days ago

• Day 25 of the January Money Diet – Go for Zero Waste

  
  Happy Simple Living — Authority: 110
  Glass canning jars can be used again and again - photo by GoodNCrazy “In a recession, people are inclined to keep things, but I feel the opposite. The less I have, the richer I feel. Stuff weighs you down.” ~Béa Johnson Last year I read the most inspiring article in Sunset Magazine , about the Johnson ...
  3 days ago

• Day 24 of the January Money Diet – Cancel Something

  
  Happy Simple Living — Authority: 110
  Photo by Images of Money The expenses we pay month after month, year after year, can really add up. Evaluate your ongoing monthly expenses and ask yourself whether you’re truly getting your money’s worth from your hard-earned dollars. Could you eliminate something and pocket the savings each month? By now you ...
  4 days ago

• Day 23 of the January Money Diet – Research Major Expenses

  
  Happy Simple Living — Authority: 110
  Today’s challenge is to explore alternatives to your major expenses and make sure you’re getting the best deal. Take advantage of a quiet month and get quotes on life, homeowner’s, health, disability and auto insurance, telephone service, internet, cable, trash pick up, etc. Call your phone or cable providers ...
  5 days ago

• Fall - A Jorio

  
  A Quest.....! — Authority: 95
  From knob of green ( Catching light, giving life ) The trees soul finds Freedom. Rising while falling! 18 January, 2012 ************* Final Jorio, I promise, for sometime, at least :)  Jorio? Cuboid writing, four lines, four words each. Capturing the essense of ...
  6 days ago

• Day 22 of the January Money Diet – Find Cash With a Financial Tuneup

  
  Happy Simple Living — Authority: 110
  Photo by JMR Photography   Last year the New York Times ran a great story about some novel ways to, as the author puts it, “unlock cash.” The best news? It only takes a few hours to run through the list, and if you’re like me, you’ll discover at least one idea you hadn’t thought of. The first idea on ...
  6 days ago

• Happy distractions

  
  Groves Media — Authority: 94
  I revisited my  40 List recently after a social media friend revealed he was hurtling towards his own 40th birthday. His status updates suggested he was approaching the landmark day with the kind of mad-eyed stare that points toward a certain amount of fear and loathing. My 40 List as drawn by @rachelcreative ...
  1 week ago

• Day 21 of the January Money Diet – Cook a Vegetarian Meal

  
  Happy Simple Living — Authority: 110
  If you’re accustomed to always cooking dinner that includes some sort of meat, try to sneak a vegetarian meal in from time to time. Pasta, burritos, soup, stir-fry, a hearty salad, bruschetta — many recipes are already vegetarian or just need a substitution (beans instead of beef in chili, for example) for a ...
  1 week ago

• Day 17 of the January Money Diet – Improve Your Personal Space

  
  Happy Simple Living — Authority: 110
    “He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Today’s challenge is to think about how you could improve one space in your home this month. Perhaps you’d like to focus some attention on the room where you spend a lot of time, such as your ...
  1 week ago

• I Think The Birds Have Forgiven Me

  
  His Grace To Me — Authority: 97
  My greedy little sparrow friends were the first to return to the this feeder. It has been my habit for several years now to maintain several birdfeeders in our yard.  Our main feeder is about 6 feet away from my bedroom window, which gives the children and I a nice indoor observation spot.  Life was so ...
  1 week ago

• No News Is Good News, But...

  
  His Grace To Me — Authority: 97
  Life on the leukemia front has been quiet for the past few weeks. Bloodwork was okay on our last lab visit. No midnight trips to the ER.   Definitely a case of no-news-is-good-news.  But if I have learned anything from this cancer journey so far, it would be to enjoy the quiet moments because you never know what is ...
  1 week ago

• "Work hard and be nice to people"

  
  How can I reach you? — Authority: 109
  “Work hard and be nice to people” - Anthony Burrill (via coryschmitz )
  1 week ago

• A living worth scraping

  
  Yum Yum Caf — Authority: 98
  “ If I can only scrape a living, at least it will be a living worth scraping. ” Mickey Smith A while ago, I posted this video of Mickey Smith called, Dark Side of the Lens. The photography, music, and text are all done by this extraordinary man, who obviously/obsessively loves the wilds of nature. Dark Side ...
  1 week ago

• Day 15 of the January Money Diet – Explore Your Local Library

  
  Happy Simple Living — Authority: 110
  Photo by Liz West Back when I was an executive with a generous salary but a scarcity of time, if I was interested in a book I followed a highly efficient routine. I simply visited the website of a particularly large online bookstore and clicked on a convenient little button that read “Buy now with 1-Click.” ...
  1 week ago

• Day 14 of the January Money Diet – Connect With Your Neighbors

  
  Happy Simple Living — Authority: 110
  “When strangers start acting like neighbors… communities are reinvigorated.” ~ Ralph Nader One of the things I love best about our neighborhood is its community spirit, and a big part of that old-fashioned spirit comes to us in a very high-tech way:  last year, we created a Google Group to stay in touch. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chew on this: simplifying your life. [Quote]

  
  Intellectual Bubblegum — Authority: 111
  Something to chew on… The most complicated task today is finding a way to live a simple life. — W. A. Nance
  2 weeks ago

• Day 13 of the January Money Diet – Repurpose Something

  
  Happy Simple Living — Authority: 110
  Hillbilly Laptop - photo by FunnyPart.com Our ancestors were continually looking for ways to reuse and repurpose things.  For example, if they hadn’t been so clever about saving fabric scraps and creatively stitching them together, there would be no patchwork quilts. Meat scraps were turned into sausage, sour ...
  2 weeks ago

• A is for the Algarve

  
  Algarve Blog — Authority: 97
  “In August most of Europe goes on holiday” Tony Visconti  Sometimes it feels like every day is an August day in the Algarve! In the start of this new series of articles ‘my personal A ~ Z of Portugal’ how could I resist the Algarve as my letter ‘A’ topic? I have written before about why we chose to ...
  2 weeks ago

• BFI Southbank to celebrate Chinese New Year with a screening of Ann Hui’s A Simple Life

  
  easternkicks.com — Authority: 103
  It’s hardly as if I’ve stopped banging on about it, but as part of BFI Southbank’s short season to bring in the Chinese New Year offer’s another chance to see A Simple Life (actually ahead of it’s Hong Kong release!)… Directed by Ann Hui and with brilliant performances by Deanie Yip and Andy Lau , ...
  2 weeks ago

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