Revised and updated. This book is a compilation of over a year of writing on homemaking, creating household budgets, buying a home on one income, and the very beginnings of backyard farming in a small city. It is from a blog that was created to inspire and share life as a housewife and mother and ways to do it all in the easiest and most enjoyable way possible. It is about mixing the delights of the modern life with the slower pace of the old fashioned to create balance and heart in the home and with the family.

When you live in Northern California with the housing market rising, cost of living excelling, and trying to make it work on one small income...creativity and surrender comes into play. This housewife has learned, from years of making ends meet on a small budget and making money mistakes, just how to create a lovely shabby chic home, feed her family nutritious and healthy foods, and make a fun life for all of them on little funds or for free. She has also realized what can be sacrificed to afford what really matters. There is homesteading in town, canning, even if you have to buy your ...

Revised and Updated. What if you had a friend that had all sorts of advice on homemaking, budgeting, being frugal but wanting for nothing and homeschooling? What if this friend could show you how to create a household budget from A to Z that would cut your bills in half...or almost? She could give you some advice on Urban farming with super easy ways to compost and how to travel, have the guest stay over, throw all sorts of parties and really celebrate the holidays on pennies. She would even show you how to decorate a home from garage sales and dress well from thrift stores. Then she had ...

We live on a gas station paycheck and some royalties from my side creative endeavors. I have decorated our home for almost free, used our stimulus checks to stock the pantry, put in an orchard, and planted a winter garden. We don't make much money but our life is charmed and cozy. We have no stress and recently we have reduced our work hours even more...but that is another story. How can you thrive and not be a slave to work? How can you live on one small income and one of you stay home? How do you have a full pantry, a charming home, and a sweet life while living on less than $35,000 a ...

Want a fun book that teaches you how to run your home like a business...a cozy business, of course. Turn the kitchen into a cafe and your pantry into a grocery store. Grow your own organic produce and save tons of money. Learn how to budget like a pro without all the fancy financial spreadsheets. Make your house sparkly clean and charmingly decorated from thrift stores. Learn to love this job and become more creative with a tiny budget. Have fun and learn to slow down and be a bit old fashioned. This book will explain in detail every inch of house management and inspire you greatly. Brew up...

A year of homemaking and unplugging from the mainstream. A year of living like the 70s, minus the phone on the wall with that long cord. This book is written in a different style, with some journaling and thoughts on what makes for a quality life, especially when you are raising a family on a small income. This is the recording of a year of turning our 121-year-old home into a sweet haven and our quarter-acre yard in town into a natural sanctuary for Mother Nature. It is about living on far less than the average family of four in California and still living well by learning to stretch the ...

So your home isn't magazine ready and you have only three dollars left to next payday? This is real life and being a homemaker is serious stuff. This is a quick and fun guide to being a frugal, wise, and happy housewife. It's loaded with advice on cleaning, running, and decorating a home, being thrifty, having fun, cooking well, and not getting burnt out on the job that has no weekends.

Times are challenging right now and getting more complicated with unemployment, sheltering in, and fear. How can you live a smaller, more humble, affordable life and still thrive and live in abundance? What is true abundance? True wealth? This is our life that we have whittled down to what is most essential and valuable to us. We live well on little. We have built our wealth over time in a humble manner with very little income. Let me share just a part of our home and life to inspire you.

This is a short story of money and how individuals and families choose to work with it. It is a look at one person's life from a childhood where money was mismanaged and on to a young adult life working three jobs to get out of large amounts of debt. It is the exploration of how a family can look at money as a useful tool and when used and saved wisely life can be a lot easier. This book has some advice and inspiration but it is not a money saving "guide". It is a personal exploration of how money was used during a lifetime and how it effects our today's and tomorrows. It is about the ...

In this day and age with housing prices and rents skyrocketing, how can a family live on a small paycheck? Let's look at ways this family has lived on an average of $30,000 to $38,000 for years and lived very well and happy. I will show you my daily life and choices that have created such an easy life and help to not only live frugally but create and build wealth.