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Website by : Maynard Smith - (Last update : 1/9/10)
- Home Page and Live Simply Quotes -
- Home Page -
Welcome to Live Simply!
The purpose of this website is to encourage Americans to live simply.
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Feature Section
Simple, Eco-Friendly Laundry Alternatives
The laundry room is one of largest energy-consuming rooms in a home. Traditional washers and dryers also take up a lot of space and they can be difficult to move.
The WonderWash below (photo on left) is a portable (under 6 lbs.),
non-electric mini washing machine . Click here to see a YouTube
video/review of this simple yet effective back-to-basics product.
Spin dryers use centrifugal force to remove water from damp clothes.
- Photo used by permission -
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Simplify Travel
Information and resources on the 'Travel & Food' page.
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Earth Week
* 47 new quotes were added to the 'solitude' page on April 25th.
* For information about Eco-entrepreneurship, Solar Cookers and affordable
solar solutions for the poor, visit the 'Environment' page. Links to solar
cooking can also be found on the 'Travel and Food' page.
* On April 25th, links to over 1,850 environmental quotes
were also added to: GreenChristian.net
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Deep-discount international travel - traveling as an air courier.
(New - March 22, 2008)
See the 'Travel and food' page for helpful links.
New link (March 22nd) - The Simple Truths of Service
A movie inspired by Johnny the Bagger http://www.stservicemovie.com
New link (February 8th) - 'Let's Tend The Garden' a website from an environmentally-friendly church in Idaho. Go to: 'Links & Contact Info.'.
New link (February 9th) - About Hermits & Solitude. Go to: 'Solitude'.
Some studies estimate that the average American is exposed to hundreds of advertisements every day. The products and services advertised are suppose to make us 'happy' and so we buy them (or buy 'into' them). And then we use up our precious time working extra hours at jobs we do not like, to make money to pay for things that we do not need. And then the stuff gets dusty, rusty and outdated, packed away in our closets, garages and storage units,
because we do not have the time to use them.
Jump into the future for a moment, and imagine that today is the last day of your life. A magic genie appears and she offers to grant you one of two choices.
Wish #1: A warehouse filled with with
all of the stuff that you had ever wanted.
Wish #2: An additional year to live.
When we live simply, we have more time to live.
Because we spend less time buying and paying for things that we do not need.
=======================================
Christmas Paradox
Christmas honors a great Man who lived a simple life.
And yet, for many of us, the holiday season is filled with stress and
financial worries. Holiday songs reflect an attitude of peace and joy, but for many people, the holidays represents a hectic time filled with emotional turmoil.
One might wonder how things might be, if people stepped off the crazy consumer-driven hamster wheel. Perhaps we would then have time
to send out a few thoughtful greetings to old friends,
or relax for a moment and watch the snow fall.
=======================================
Yellow (caution) Light
A yellow light at a street intersection means caution,
a warning that we need to stop!
The logo for Live Simply in the U.S. is also yellow,
to encourage us to take caution. As Americans, our greatest
inheritance is freedom, and yet many of us seem to take it for granted.
We have become overly dependent on other countries for almost every purchase that we make, and if we are not careful, that dependence may cost us our independence.
As we send our hard-earned money to other countries for merchandise, fuel, etc. It might be a good idea to consider what they are doing with the money.
If they are purchasing missiles and battle ships,
maybe it would be a good idea to
spend a little less and just...
live simply!
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first,
the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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- Live Simply Quotes -
(23 entries)
Live simply, so others may simply live.
- Gandhi
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci
For fast acting relief; try slowing down.
- Lily Tomlin
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
- Cicero
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life,
and the labors of life reduce themselves.
- Edwin Teale
Simplicity is the essence of happiness.
- Cedric Bledsoe
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
The things that are essential are acquired with little bother;
it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.
To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people
primitiveness and squalor.
- Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.
- Author Unknown
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
In the hope of reaching the moon
men fail to see the flowers
that blossom at their feet.
- Albert Schweitzer
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.
- Oscar Wilde
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions
but in the fewness of my wants.
- J. Botherton
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
- Pablo Picasso
Be wary of any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex,
and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of
courage--to move in the opposite direction.
- E. F. Schumacker
You can't have everything; where would you put it?
- Steven Wright
Our life is frittered away by detail.
Simplify, simplify, simplify!
Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose.
- Henry David Thoreau
Most people seek after what they do not possess
and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
- Anwar Sadat
Learning to produce our own food is essential if we are
to ever truly take control of our own lives. It liberates
us from the role of passive consumer, remote from real
decisions, alienated from nature.
- Primal Seeds
Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day
rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less
so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.
- John Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go There You Are,
The best things in life aren't things.
- Art Buchwald
Less is more.
- Mies van der Rohe
Website by : Maynard Smith - (Last update : 1/9/10)
- Home Page and Live Simply Quotes -
- Home Page -
Welcome to Live Simply!
The purpose of this website is to encourage Americans to live simply.
---
Feature Section
Simple, Eco-Friendly Laundry Alternatives
The laundry room is one of largest energy-consuming rooms in a home. Traditional washers and dryers also take up a lot of space and they can be difficult to move.
The WonderWash below (photo on left) is a portable (under 6 lbs.),
non-electric mini washing machine . Click here to see a YouTube
video/review of this simple yet effective back-to-basics product.
Spin dryers use centrifugal force to remove water from damp clothes.
Spin dryer (center photo) only 22 lbs. / 3200 rpm spin speed
Mini Countertop Spin Dryer (photo on right) only 11 lbs. / 1600 rpm spin speed
- Photo used by permission -
---
Simplify Travel
Information and resources on the 'Travel & Food' page.
---
Earth Week
* 47 new quotes were added to the 'solitude' page on April 25th.
* For information about Eco-entrepreneurship, Solar Cookers and affordable
solar solutions for the poor, visit the 'Environment' page. Links to solar
cooking can also be found on the 'Travel and Food' page.
* On April 25th, links to over 1,850 environmental quotes
were also added to: GreenChristian.net
---
Deep-discount international travel - traveling as an air courier.
(New - March 22, 2008)
See the 'Travel and food' page for helpful links.
New link (March 22nd) - The Simple Truths of Service
A movie inspired by Johnny the Bagger http://www.stservicemovie.com
New link (February 8th) - 'Let's Tend The Garden' a website from an environmentally-friendly church in Idaho. Go to: 'Links & Contact Info.'.
New link (February 9th) - About Hermits & Solitude. Go to: 'Solitude'.
Some studies estimate that the average American is exposed to hundreds of advertisements every day. The products and services advertised are suppose to make us 'happy' and so we buy them (or buy 'into' them). And then we use up our precious time working extra hours at jobs we do not like, to make money to pay for things that we do not need. And then the stuff gets dusty, rusty and outdated, packed away in our closets, garages and storage units,
because we do not have the time to use them.
Jump into the future for a moment, and imagine that today is the last day of your life. A magic genie appears and she offers to grant you one of two choices.
Wish #1: A warehouse filled with with
all of the stuff that you had ever wanted.
Wish #2: An additional year to live.
When we live simply, we have more time to live.
Because we spend less time buying and paying for things that we do not need.
=======================================
Christmas Paradox
Christmas honors a great Man who lived a simple life.
And yet, for many of us, the holiday season is filled with stress and
financial worries. Holiday songs reflect an attitude of peace and joy, but for many people, the holidays represents a hectic time filled with emotional turmoil.
One might wonder how things might be, if people stepped off the crazy consumer-driven hamster wheel. Perhaps we would then have time
to send out a few thoughtful greetings to old friends,
or relax for a moment and watch the snow fall.
=======================================
Yellow (caution) Light
A yellow light at a street intersection means caution,
a warning that we need to stop!
The logo for Live Simply in the U.S. is also yellow,
to encourage us to take caution. As Americans, our greatest
inheritance is freedom, and yet many of us seem to take it for granted.
We have become overly dependent on other countries for almost every purchase that we make, and if we are not careful, that dependence may cost us our independence.
As we send our hard-earned money to other countries for merchandise, fuel, etc. It might be a good idea to consider what they are doing with the money.
If they are purchasing missiles and battle ships,
maybe it would be a good idea to
spend a little less and just...
live simply!
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first,
the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
- Theodore Roosevelt
=======================================
- Live Simply Quotes -
(23 entries)
Live simply, so others may simply live.
- Gandhi
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci
For fast acting relief; try slowing down.
- Lily Tomlin
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
- Cicero
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life,
and the labors of life reduce themselves.
- Edwin Teale
Simplicity is the essence of happiness.
- Cedric Bledsoe
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
The things that are essential are acquired with little bother;
it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.
To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people
primitiveness and squalor.
- Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.
- Author Unknown
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
In the hope of reaching the moon
men fail to see the flowers
that blossom at their feet.
- Albert Schweitzer
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.
- Oscar Wilde
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions
but in the fewness of my wants.
- J. Botherton
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
- Pablo Picasso
Be wary of any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex,
and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of
courage--to move in the opposite direction.
- E. F. Schumacker
You can't have everything; where would you put it?
- Steven Wright
Our life is frittered away by detail.
Simplify, simplify, simplify!
Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose.
- Henry David Thoreau
Most people seek after what they do not possess
and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
- Anwar Sadat
Learning to produce our own food is essential if we are
to ever truly take control of our own lives. It liberates
us from the role of passive consumer, remote from real
decisions, alienated from nature.
- Primal Seeds
Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day
rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less
so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.
- John Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go There You Are,
The best things in life aren't things.
- Art Buchwald
Less is more.
- Mies van der Rohe