Simple. Sustainable. Frugal.

A two weekly round up of our progress towards simple, sustainable and frugal living. Sustainable Things. Vege market - The vege market is usually a weekly stop for us, and we are lucky to have access to many different vege markets around Wellington, while not quite a farmer's market the produce is affordable, seasonal and …

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A Full Life

I always make a point of trying to avoid saying "life is busy". The phrase seems so over-used in today's fast-paced society that I don't even know what it means anymore. So I'm not going to say that I've been busy lately. What I am going to say is that life has been full lately. …

The Big Nursery Reveal!

This project has very much been a labour of love, with so much planning and imagining even before we got pregnant. I'm a very visual person, and I like to have clear pictures in my head of how things will look before starting anything new, so there wasn't much decision-making required by the time we …

A Week in Review

Tonight I am sitting in front of my computer feeling an interesting combination of relaxed and shattered. It's Saturday and yesterday we finished a long term and somewhat exhausting term at school. Don't get me wrong, it was a great term: my students had a blast creating their own country to represent in our two-week-long …