Part one 8/31/2023
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The Simple Life Journal
My Journey To Getting My Simple Life
As I said in a previous video, I want to live a simple life. I have given myself a goal of two years, and I struggle with the fear of getting this life. When I moved to where I am now, I moved here with a lot of debt and unpaid bills. Do I worry about those bills? Yes. However, I am working on chipping down and paying off this debt. But do I think I can achieve my goal of a simple life? I have realized I may have to extend my goal by two years. Am I upset about this? Yes. But I have decided to go with it because a new home is a serious purchase, and I will not put myself into a position where I will be getting into a mortgage that I cannot afford, and I will NOT buy an overly priced home. I have considered purchasing land and moving an RV there as I build and work the land. That way, I can work from the property as I work from home for my job. The big question is, Could I be happy doing this?
Life is about never stopping and enjoying everything around you. So from now until the end of the year, my goals remain the same, and I will continue working towards my goal, as we never know what the future will bring, and with the economy, do I want to take over someone's problem? Over the next few months, I will do more research and see what I can find. I will share more information as I continue this journey to the simple life.
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Five ways I am trying to get to a simple life-
#1. Making More Homemade Foods
#2. Shopping sales and discounts
#3. Reusing Everything
#4. Gifting Homemade Goods/ Selling Homemade Goods
#5. Doing Side Hustles To Help Things Along
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I got the best Christmas gift this year! My partner knows one of my biggest pet peeves is food waste. I mean I do everything I can to save that from happening. I will dehydrate food, can food if I could water bath can it. Well that all has changed. My boyfriend got me a pressure canner. Now I can all the foods I want so my emergency food supply is going to be awesome! Am I bragging? No I am touched my boyfriend listened to me. It was not a gift I asked for or requested. To be one hundred percent honest I told him I was saving for pressure canner by working on some of those survey and task websites I do. So when he sent me on a hunt for it I about cried. Okay who am I fooling I did cry when I found it.
Now someone may ask, Why? Well lets all get honest here. The prices of food are soaring. I am not talking nickels and dimes. I am talking by whole dollar amounts. Where I live I am blessed to have a fresh produce market and farms near us. So I get some really good deals which I stock up on and either dehydrate or can. The cost of meat though makes me want to cry. For the last two years I have been working on building up an emergency food supply and now I am in the process of rotating it out. Because lets be honest with ourselves, something is coming. Am I being a cynical person? Maybe. Am I being a realist when I know I am going to have to provide for my family? Yes.
Now I am not expert let me say this right now. I am just a woman wanting to take care of her family. To build up my food supply I have done it cheaply. First when I go to the store if I see an item on sale I may pick up extra pasta, rice, beans, sugar, coffee, canned good. The items do not have to be expensive. Sometimes if I go into the Dollar Tree I will get an extra spice or two or a few canned items to add to it. Another thing I do is dehydrate food. I have a dehydrator but you can also do this in your oven at the lowest setting. Normally 125 degrees. Our local farmers produce store had carrots on sale. I believe its a three pound bag for ninety five cents. I purchased extra and peeled them and dehydrated them. I stored them in a glass jar. I think next time I may try to pickle them. Our ancestors set an example for us. Canning, pickling and dehydrating are good ways to keep food and help soften the blow if food prices go up more.
Also use everything you have. Save your vegetable scraps. Some can be used for broth, I save my more hearty scraps for a dehydrated vegetable powder to add to smoothies. You are only limited to what you want to use it for. Remember the bones from your chicken? That can be boiled for bone broth. Once you get that broth you can dehydrate the bones and crush them to use in your garden.
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Reusing Everything You Have
When I say reusing everything I mean everything. When it comes to reusing things I mean the easiest things
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Cooking At Home
Now do not get me wrong I love easy and convivence food's just like the next person. But those same foods are getting to be so expensive.
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A Step For The Future
So I have been looking into options for my future. I really want to get an RV. Looking into options I have considered buying a old RV and remodel it. Seeing the prices of new RV's and the costs are quite a bit of sticker shock. Then you have to factor in the cost of lot rent or storage fees. But last night before I fell asleep I did see that there were RV's for sale for under $5000 which I could make into my own. Has anyone ever remodeled an RV? Before anyone asks I know there will be a bit of work and money to be put into it but that is an option I am looking at.
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10 Easy ways to start the simple life:
1. learn how to cook from scratch
2. garden in the limited space you have
3. Learn to use what you have
4. Reuse everything
5. Learn how to sew
6. Get into better shape to not depend on cars
7. limit your wants vs needs
8. Learn how to cope with life without electronics
9. Learn to NOT depend on the government and officials
10. Learn ho to defend yourself.
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Knowing how to handle an emergency
After the hurricane came through I realized just how unprepared people were. We were lucky we were not in the direct path but those bands still got us knocking out power and a bit of clean up. How was I lucky. I prepared. This is how.
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