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A Different Kind of Self Sufficient Life

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So, for any regular readers left from when we were regular writers here at A Self Sufficient Life, breaking news… Well not so much breaking news as – time for a change.   The site has been neglected whilst we have been doing things to earn a little money.  It seems frugal living on a mountain is all well and good, but you do need cash for petrol and other little luxuries, like clean clothes (if Mr DB works out how to fix the washing machine). So, long story short Mr Dirty Boots and myself have been busy tip-tapping away […]

A Year (and a bit) in the Self Sufficient Life

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Okay, Mrs Dirty Boots here, Madam of this Self Sufficient homestead.  Yep, I know I have been missing in action from this site.  Rest assured I have been doing my bit though (just ran out of words to ramble about it all really!).  Any-hoo, it suddenly dawned on me (over a bowl of barely simmering lemon curd no less) that a whole year (and a bit) had gone by since we started writing here about all things Self Sufficientish and Frugal. How time flies!  We’ve lived off various home-grown veggies, fruits and home-reared (killed) chickens.  Eaten vast quantities of homemade […]

I Done A Bad Thing – Cheap Plane Tickets, And Monstrous After Effects

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Well, actually it was a great thing, but with the rather in depth conversation in the last post about what being “eco” really means, it was very bad from that point of view. I took about 3 million flights and flew about as far away as you can possibly go to go to my sisters wedding in New Zealand. Not very eco friendly at all. A great time was had by all and it was great to see my little Sis get married. I was only there for 6 days and then 4 more were spent getting there and back. […]

Make Money Writing Online

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Or, how to stop working for the man. How To Make Money  Writing Online Not so long ago I told you that, in an effort to be able to continue our self sufficient life I decided to see if I could learn how to make money online. We had no work and things were beginning to get very serious, money wise. We already had this blog but it was set up more as a fun project to do together, rather than as a money making exercise. Just as well really, as it makes nothing in terms of monetary value really. […]

More Blogs on the Roll

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The blogroll has been updated by his good self.   He’s added some links of blogs he enjoys reading at the moment.  Check them out, there are some great sites on the blogroll. If we’ve missed you but are visiting your site let me apologise.  Having two people reading blogs and writing this one means we do, just occasionally, forget who does what! For a more self sufficient future

The Ongoing Blogroll

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Some bloggers are terribly organised and keep an efficient system of blogroll updates.  Letting all their readers know who and why they’ve added new links each month or so. That won’t be happening here! For a start with the two of us reading lots of blogs it would be difficult.  Mostly though I just don’t think we’ll remain that organised. So as we notice blogs in our readers that we should have linked to, but haven’t, we’ll put them on the blogroll widget on the right. I’ve put a few on for now, in no particular order or reason.   They […]