Buying Bulk – Storage Solutions
Buying necessaries in bulk makes sense to me. But, as I pointed out in a recent post, a lot of people avoid buying in bulk, and even deride those who do, simply because they can’t find the room to store bulk goods till needed. The first step toward creating your own buffer against just-in-time supply [...]
Buying Bulk Buffers Against Just-in-Time Supply
“Shopping at Costco is ridiculous—I don’t need to buy a case of [name any consumer product] at a time!” This often-heard opinion may get a laugh in comedy clubs and cocktail parties, but it indicates to me that the speaker has done very little critical thinking about the state of our world. Modern society has [...]
Simple Living – Posts Revisited
Welcome to another visit to our archive to resurface articles from our writing team. Today let’s focus on the theme of simple living. It seems that life has a way of getting complicated all on its own, so simple living has a particular appeal to many of us. If we simplify our lives, it allows [...]
Joining a Co-op
What’s so great about joining a co-op? Well, the best great thing is that a co-op exists to serve the needs of those who have an interest in them. Whether your interest is in time or money, when you join a co-op you are becoming a voting member of a group of people who want [...]
Taking Self Reliance on Tour
Even self reliant people can’t always stay home. Sometimes, we just take self reliance on tour, a tour of a location we have no control over but are just observers in. We recently ventured into a couple new states as tourists. Our stops included a large city, and while I am very comfortable getting lost [...]
Know Your Rights
To know your rights is truly how free you are. Most of us choose to live within laws and regulations by driving vehicles that must be licensed, and by keeping our lawn mowed if we choose to live inside a city limit, and by not carrying a firearm if we choose to enter a government [...]
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