Explores our instinct for acquisitiveness, how it shapes saving, spending, and security, and the personal journey from fear and hoarding to community, balance, and living with enough in a world of environmental and social limits.
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Winter Update Part 4: Stories and Reflections
This is the last in our short series of updates of our activities over the past couple of months, this
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Winter Update Part 3: Sailing, Cycling, and Slowing Down
While our lives have stayed firmly grounded at home these past months, a lot of time has gone into movement.
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Winter Update Part 2: Connecting with Community
Recently, we shared how we’ve been embracing simplicity and sustainability at home, growing food, repairing rather than discarding, and valuing
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Winter Update Part 1: Embracing Simplicity and Sustainability at Home
It’s been a while since we last had a personal check-in, and it feels like life has been a little
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Instincts 02: Altruism
In our first post on instincts, we explored the powerful drive of self-preservation and how it shapes our personal lives,
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Instincts 01: Self-Preservation
Of all the instincts we carry within us, self-preservation is the oldest and most fundamental. It is the force that
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Instincts 00: Getting a Handle on Our Nature
This is the first in a series of posts diving into human instincts and how they continue to play a
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How We Afford to Give: Taming Our Transport Costs
Our most popular content has been related to money and in particular how we manage to give away such a
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Frugal Hedonism
hedonismnoun living and behaving in ways that mean you get as much pleasure out of life as possible, according to the