Thread: Simple Living : Less is More

Wikipedia defines Simple Living as encompassing a number of different voluntary practices to simplify one's lifestyle. These may include, for example, reducing one's possessions, generally referred to as minimalism, or increasing self-sufficiency. Simple living may be characterized by individuals being satisfied with what they have rather than want. Although asceticism generally promotes living simply and refraining from luxury and indulgence, not all proponents of simple living are ascetics.Simple living is distinct from those living in forced poverty, as it is a voluntary lifestyle choice.

Adherents may choose simple living for a variety of personal reasons, such as spirituality, health, increase in quality time for family and friends, work–life balance, personal taste, financial sustainability, frugality, or reducing stress. Simple living can also be a reaction to materialism and conspicuous consumption. Some cite socio-political goals aligned with the environmentalist, anti-consumerist or anti-war movements, including conservation, degrowth, social justice, and tax resistance.

One of the main reasons that motivated me to get into traditional shaving was that I was simply fed up with the ridiculous prices of cartridge razors. I switched to DE razors first but feared the blades would eventually be difficult to source. Here's the post that started my quest for shaving self-sufficiency back when I was a poor university student in 2003.

Was wondering what other practices, in addition to straight razor shaving of course, you have adopted to simplify your lifestyle?

Originally Posted by Badgister

One of the main reasons that motivated me to get into traditional shaving was that I was simply fed up with the ridiculous prices of cartridge razors. I switched to DE razors first but feared the blades would eventually be difficult to source. Here's the post that started my quest for shaving self-sufficiency back when I was a poor university student in 2003.

Was wondering what other practices, in addition to straight razor shaving of course, you have adopted to simplify your lifestyle?

Retirement!!!!!!

I have done nothing to simplify my lifestyle other than live within my means and carry no long term debt. That in itself simplifies things for me.

Bob

I hope to get there sooner than later. Hopefully to be mortgage free by 50.

I’ll second be the whole no debt thing. We just have a mortgage. Changed everything for us. Our marriage is better, having kids was way less stressful, made life way easier in general.

We moved to RURAL North Idaho
My closest neighbor is about a 1/2 mile away
I have learned so many things that I now do myself that I used to just call "A Guy" to have done
I never in a million years saw myself driving a tractor, plowing a field, planting a garden, fixing a well, falling trees and bucking and cutting them myself, Putting in wood stoves and chimneys, and worst of all learning about a Septic System.

After almost 17 years I would never go back to the city...