Simpler times

The other day on Facebook, I posted a tweet comparing the cost of living in the 1970s to life in 2021. Homes are much larger now. Most families own two cars which are expensive with

14 Steps Towards Living a Simpler Lifestyle. Some great ideas in this article to live the life you've always dreamed about!

Clothes and a washboard at a cabin near Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings house in Cross Creek FL. From Wikipedia: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953)[1] was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie, also known as The Yearling.

The Hula Hoop was patented 56 years ago this Tuesday.

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How do you start slow living? What is slow living? Here's answers to both and what happened when I tried slow living for a year!

Hopscotch. Half the fun was drawing the squares on your driveway!

In my introduction to this series, How to Live a More Old-Fashioned Life, I explained the heart of the matter. We need to find balance in our lives. Doing so means pulling back from the internet and learning to live a more old-fashioned life. So to continue on from there, in this post I am sharing specific ideas to implement more old-fashioned homemaking in your life.