For the past several weeks, I have been encouraging my readers to consider everything thoroughly before jumping into this self-sufficiency lifestyle. This week, one reader wrote to me and said “stop all the over thinking and get to the nuts and bolts of it already”. Continue reading
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Happy New Year! I pray this new year brings each and every one of you joy, peace, love and many blessings.
I apologize for missing an article last week. I normally write my articles Sunday morning before going to church. But last Sunday, I was under the weather and couldn’t sit at the keyboard or anything else for that matter. I have had a heart condition since birth and last week, my ol ticker decided to start acting up so it was much needed (and rare) day of rest for me.
The past three articles have talked about some planning and mindsets needed for this lifestyle. In the first article in this series, I suggested to everyone to be frugal. In the next article I suggested that you needed to make sure your partner was of the same mindset about this lifestyle and in the third article, I gave a few suggestions about how to properly make plans. This article is about what came first in the planning, for us. Continue reading