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Is Your Outdoor Equipment an Asset or a Liability?
Lifestyle / Load Up and Go

Is Your Outdoor Equipment an Asset or a Liability?

3 ways to make sure your gear is paying for itself. At the request of a colleague, I recently read the book Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. You…

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November 16, 2020
Self Manipulate and Listen to Your Inner 8-Year-Old
Lifestyle / Load Up and Go / Slow Food

Self Manipulate and Listen to Your Inner 8-Year-Old

Most things can be positive up and until they're not. I’m dealing with too many addictions to be addicted to all at once. It's a cycle between vices in an effort…

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November 8, 2020
On the Ruggedness of Women’s Clothing
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On the Ruggedness of Women’s Clothing

Like many millennial females, I sneak and steal my significant other’s rugged clothes. Mostly, his sweatshirts and insulated button-up type shirt jackets.  At this point, it's not so much an…

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October 25, 2020
Food Is Worth More Than It’s Cost
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Food Is Worth More Than It’s Cost

5 ways your food provides value. In economics, there’s a concept of utility. This idea discusses how many utils or points of value someone gets from a certain item. To…

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October 19, 2020
Wood Splitting and It’s Perks
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Wood Splitting and It’s Perks

Post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Often times, when a person moves out to the country, they find themselves with many dying or…

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October 5, 2020
5 Tips For Planning Your Move To The Country
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5 Tips For Planning Your Move To The Country

Your first country home doesn’t have to be your last. Moving to my husband’s 6 acres was daunting, to say the least. Turning onto what I used to call dirt…

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September 28, 2020
5 Things We Downsized To Be More Eco-Friendly
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5 Things We Downsized To Be More Eco-Friendly

During shelter-in place, Nick and I spent some time thinking about the things we have downsized and what else we could change in order to reduce our carbon/debt footprint (while saving the turtles.)

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September 14, 2020
Livestock For Everyone! The Chicken and the Egg
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Livestock For Everyone! The Chicken and the Egg

Most slow food journeys twist and turn with pit stops at travel, gardens, farmers markets, and even smart buys at your local grocery store. However, for many DIY enthusiasts, livestock…

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September 7, 2020
Is an All Or Nothing Attitude Holding You Back?
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Is an All Or Nothing Attitude Holding You Back?

An all or nothing attitude, AKA the thought that if you don’t give something every single piece of you, then there’s no reason to even start. Lifestyles are not "all-or-nothing,"…

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August 31, 2020
5 Ways To Increase Your Child’s Science Skills
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5 Ways To Increase Your Child’s Science Skills

Using outdoor experiences to help your child in science. From a Science Teacher. 5 concepts to take your child’s education to the next level.

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August 24, 2020
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