What??!! Why wouldn’t you want a tax refund?? You don’t…believe me. Did you receive a tax refund this year? And what does that have to do with sustainability and homesteading? Everything! Especially if you can’t find the money to make your dreams come true! Many people get a tax refund and then use that money…
Financial Resilience
10 Steps to More Sustainable Crafting
The US creativity market is a 44 billion dollar industry, if you can believe it! If you love to craft, you can easily find yourself spending more than you ever intended for a project! But it doesn’t have to be that way, let’s take a look at some ways to craft sustainably and inexpensively. Crafting…
How to Save a Bundle on Your Utility Bills
Get to Know Your Meter Before you make any changes to your home, I feel strongly that you must begin to read your meter and track your usage. You can do a lot to save electricity, but if you aren’t quantifying your progress until you get your bill at the end of the…
15 Things I Refuse to Buy Anymore
After you’ve on this sustainability kick for a while, you’ll find that there are things that just don’t fit into your life anymore. My tolerance for purchasing items that cost too much for the little purpose they serve is pretty low. So, here’s my current list of “15 Things I Refuse to Buy Anymore”, although…
28 Day Journey to a Gently Sustainable Home: Make it Do
In the last couple of weeks, we’ve covered a lot of information that will surely make us more sustainable in our homes and our lives! This will be our third week of the “28 Day Journey to a Gently Sustainable Home” and now we’ll be covering how to “Make it Do“! Learning to “Make…