self-sufficiency

Book review: The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It

Posted April 17, 2009 - 07:22 by Philip Brewer

Lifestyle, Health and Beauty, Green Living, Food and Drink, DIY

Cover of The Self-Sufficient Life

In the days when self-sufficiency was simply the normal way of things, you'd learn the necessary knowledge and skills from your parents. (And from your grandparents, aunts and uncles, older siblings, and whatever other adults happened to be around.) Now that most of us work for money to buy what we need, rather than growing or making things ourselves, few of us have the knowledge or skills to be self-sufficient. Few of us even know anybody we could learn from. This book tries to fill that gap.

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Self-sufficiency, self-reliance, and freedom

Posted May 14, 2008 - 10:28 by Philip Brewer

Personal Finance, Frugal Living, Career and Income

Garden by a dugout house

Self-sufficiency is producing the actual stuff you use--your own food, your own clothes, etc. It's not a common lifestyle. Most people chose instead to follow the path of self-reliance. Rather than directly producing the things they use, they produce something they can sell for money, or else they work for someone who will pay them money, aiming to earn enough to buy what they use.

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