{A simple, green, homeschooling family of six learning to thrive with less on a modern-day Iowa homestead.}
I found quite a few more free Kindle eBooks on Amazon! This list contains some recipes, information on raising chickens, and how to go gluten free!! I know it’s not Thursday, but I’m sure some many of these won’t be free anymore then. So I’m sharing them now! Here are the books I think look [...]
A while back I shared Frugal Tips on Tuesdays and I had a lot of positive feedback about those posts. But then I got away from them and started posting Garden Updates on Tuesdays instead. I have decided that from here on out, I will get back to sharing frugal tips, but I’m moving the [...]
A lot of people really liked the list of free Amazon Kindle Ebooks I compiled last week, so I’m going to try to make this a weekly post! Come back every Thursday for more free Ebooks. Here are the free books I found that interest me this week! {Please note: I have not actually read [...]
If you’ve got a kindle and would love some free Amazon Kindle ebooks, here are a few that I think look really interesting! I “bought” all of these but I have not read them yet, so they may or may not be good. But free is awesome so it was worth it to me to [...]
Frozen Potatoes We almost had a hard week this week with food waste, but I got really lucky. I accidentally let almost 20 pounds of organic potatoes FREEZE on my enclosed front porch over the weekend. The last thing I wanted to do was throw those potatoes out, so I started googling. You can read [...]
One of my goals this year is reduce the amount of harmful chemicals I expose my family to via toiletries. I’ve worked hard to green up many areas of my home, but certain toiletries in my repertoire still contain bad stuff … stuff I intend to banish from my home in 2013, including: Methylisothiazoline (MIT) [...]
It’s Frugal Tuesday! I feel like I’ve been in a massive spend money mode lately. Between Christmas, my daughter’s birthday, and a mini vacation to Chicago {including Trader Joe’s, Ikea, & the American Girl Doll Store}, buying boots for myself, and drooling over Le Creuset’s 7-1/4-Quart Round French Oven {anyone want to send me one [...]
Last year about this time I joined up with The Frugal Girl and wrote weekly posts about my food waste for quite a while. It seemed to help me minimize my waste, but eventually I got away from the posts, and my food waste has risen recently again. Since one of my goals for 2013 [...]
Merry Christmas! I hope you had wonderful celebrations this year! We’ve finished up two celebrations so far. Santa came to our house on Sunday morning {before Christmas} and the kids were shocked and awed. It was pretty funny actually, because that has never happened to us before! I actually stressed a lot about Santa this [...]
I have a lot of shopping to do from mid November to the end of December with THREE family birthdays {and that’s only my immediate family} and Christmas, and I’m always on the lookout for good deals to reduce my out of pocket expense during this time. I was interested to learn recently about [...]
Welcome! I'm Michelle and I'm glad you're here. Simplify, Live, Love is a blog about simple life in rural Iowa. We are a self-employed, frugal, green, mostly homeschooling family of 6 working to go off the grid on a modern day homestead in Eastern Iowa. Please subscribe for gardening tips, green living hints, recipes, fun giveaways, and frugal ideas. Thanks for stopping by.
