Saturday, May 26, 2012

A Community of Bloggers for Simple Living

Home and Garden
I firmly believe in building communities and sharing resources. So often, we struggle to find answers to questions that have already been asked by many. Answers are available, but they're generally scattered about, resulting in an extensive search on our parts. Bloggers provide online hubs of expertise, and we all work to share our own information with the masses. If we pull our resources together to create one large community, not only would we all benefit with increased traffic to our sites, but visitors could find their answers in one spot.

The purpose of this post is to create a list of simple living blogs. I realize this isn't the first of its kind, but hopefully - together - we can grow this list to be really huge. I have started the list below, but it is up to you to either add your own or one of your favorite simple living blogs. The topics can include simple and sustainable living, frugality, environment, personal growth, productivity, healthy living, organic & small-scale farming, organic recipes, eco-friendly DIY tutorials, and other topics of that nature.

Simply leave a comment on this post with a link to the blog and I will add it as soon as possible. Even better, leave your tag line to include with your link. Then, be sure to promote this post with whatever social networking sites you use to bring increased traffic to all of our blogs.

Thank you!

A Community of Bloggers for Simple Living

  1. A Daring Adventure - Journey to a better life
  2. A Homesteading-Neophyte - Follow a once suburban girl through her new life as a rural homesteader
  3. Abundance Blog - Daring to live fully
  4. Adventures in Voluntary Simplicity - A former highly-paid lawyer gives up a life of material comfort and unencumbered excess, and embraces the beauty and freedom of simple happiness
  5. Adversity University - Taking mind, body and spirit to the next level
  6. Balanced Existence - Achieve and maintain health and wellness within the modern human environment
  7. Barn Raising - Nurturing, honoring, and building family traditions from scratch
  8. Being Frugal - Live more, spend less
  9. Caramelize Life - Making life a little sweeter through food, travel and community
  10. Choosing Voluntary Simplicity - About finding balance in your life, connecting with who you are, and creating a lifestyle where you wake up each morning eagerly anticipating the day ahead
  11. Create a Balance - Where living my dream unfolds
  12. Curious Living - And days went by like paper in the wind
  13. Down to Earth - A blog about simple life
  14. Dreams of Simple Life - A journal of how I'm learning to embrace every single day
  15. Drowning Creek Homestead - Where the chicken always comes before the egg
  16. Dumb Little Man - Tips for life
  17. E Frugal Living - Live better using financial resources
  18. Enhance Life - Real life wisdom for modern life growth
  19. Everyday Simplicity - Organizing and consolidating information dealing with simplifying life, to help those considering a lifestyle change as well as those expert at living an abundant life in a frugal way
  20. Farm Fabulosity  - Find. Alter. Repurpose. Make.
  21. Festival of Frugality - Home of the weekly carnival that helps you pinch pennies out of dollars
  22. Finding Simplicity - Leaving mass consumerism and debt behind in order to find a more simple, frugal and eco friendly lifestyle
  23. From City To Farm  - An adventure in step-by-step
  24. Frugal By Choice  - Living a champagne life on a sparkling cider budget
  25. Frugal Dad - Insights on coupons, career and money
  26. Frugal For Life - Spend less. Waste less. Save more.
  27. Frugal Homesteading
  28. Frugal Kiwi - Learn it. Do it. Live it.
  29. Henhouse Pottery - Cows and sheep and pots in the city
  30. Homegrown & Healthy  - Promoting fresh, healthy eating by supporting our local farmers
  31. Homestead Acres - Reviving simplicity of yesteryear
  32. Homesteading & Survivalism - A center for "How To" products on self-reliance, sustainable living, and other related fields
  33. Hunter. Angler. Gardener. Cook.
  34. Illuminated Mind - Live and work on your own terms
  35. Insight Writer - Freshly squeezed insight for better living
  36. Inspire Your Life Style - A place where all good things come to fruition; inspiration, beauty, creativity, and well-being.
  37. Jungle of Life - A journey toward your true peak
  38. Kanelstrand  - Simple living for human beings
  39. Leave Me To My Projects - I’m Edward Scissor Hands living in a Martha Stewart world, and this is my story of DIY, life and the space between
  40. Let It Flow - Feel good living
  41. Life Dev - Helping creative people create
  42. Lovely Morning
  43. Urban Homestead - Pioneering a journey toward self-sufficiency...one step at a time
  44. Liv Simpl - Redefine simple living by changing the focus from "less" to "more"
  45. Live Life 365 - Healthy life. Personal development. Entertainment.
  46. Live Simply. Live Well. - Simplicity, frugality, and the good life
  47. Loving Simple Living - Simplifying, destressing and focusing on what matters
  48. Low Impact Living - The lowdown on living green
  49. Marc and Angel Hack Life - Practical tips for healthy living
  50. Motivate Thyself - Your freedom depends on it 
  51. My Adventure Treasure Simple Living -  Practical tips and resources for creating your own simple living adventure
  52. My Simpler Life - Creating a saner, simpler life
  53. My Super-Charged Life - Good habits for a great life
  54. No Ordinary Homestead - It's about freedom
  55. Notjustgreenfingers  - Cooking from scratch, cleaning the old fashion way, and growing fruit, vegetables, and flowers organically in four UK allotments. How to live well on less.
  56. One Good Thing By Jillee
  57. Ordinary Life. Extraordinary Life. - A blog about living well, seeing the big things in the small things, finding the extraordinary in the ordinary, through the stories of everyday life
  58. Our Common Community - A journey of simplification
  59. Passionate Homemaking - Loving simple, natural and intentional living
  60. Project Homestead - The real life adventures of one family's journey back to the land
  61. Razor Family Farms - Adventures in small scale farming and simple living that rock like KISS
  62. Ready. Set. Simplify. - Simplify. Organize. Declutter. Prioritize.
  63. Remodeling This Life - Living simply
  64. Roost  - A place to inspire and share the joys of cooking and eating organic, whole foods with ones you love
  65. Rowdy Kittens - Social change through simple living
  66. Savvy Frugality - A smart guide to surviving tough times
  67. Seeking Simplicity - Gently living in a complex world
  68. Share World Love - Enjoy life. Be passionate. Cherish the world. Share the love.
  69. Simply Cashmere Desserts and Design - Live simply. Live purely.
  70. Simply Kate - Living a simplter, joyful life.
  71. Simple Living in the Suburbs - Living simple, going green, and starting a web business
  72. Simple Mom - Live intentionally
  73. Simple Nourished Living - Cooking and living happy, healthy, and slim with Weight Watchers
  74. Simple Lovely 
  75. Simple Organized Living - Helping you create your best life
  76. Simplify Your Life - Organizing with realistic solutions
  77. Single Mom, Single Money - Tryin' to make a dollar out of 15 cents
  78. Slow Living Essentials
  79. Small Notebook - For a simple home
  80. Sources of Insight -  "Stand on the Shoulders of Giants" … Insight and Action for Work and Life
  81. Sustainable Life Blog  - Your guide for living a financially, environmentally and mentally stable life
  82. The Change Blog
  83. The Charmed Life - Graceful living with style
  84. The Clutter Diet Blog - Organizing tips and ideas
  85. The Happy Housewife - Where Martha meets real life
  86. The Prairie Homestead - Return to your roots
  87. Tilly's Nest -  This Cape Cod family of four has embarked on a journey of keeping backyard chickens. Join their journey of hits and misses on their adventures
  88. Lazy Homesteader - The latest dirt from the Schell Urban Homestead
  89. The Positivity Blog - Happiness and awesomeness tips that work in real life
  90. The Simple Dollar - Financial talk for the rest of us
  91. Think Maya - Startups, social media and the goodness of life
  92. Think Neat -  A blog to promote smart thoughts, fair acts and neat life
  93. Think Simple Now - A moment of clarity
  94. Tiny Choices
  95. Towards Sustainability
  96. Unclutterer - Getting and staying organized
  97. Walden Effect - Join us in our quest to live simply and explore permaculture, honeybees, and chickens
  98. Where Simplicity Leads - the Pathway to a brave new paradigm
  99. Wise Bread - Living large on a small budget
  100. Yes! Magazine - Powerful ideas, practical actions from the YES! community
  101. Zen Family Habits - Simple happiness
  102. Zen Habits - Breathe
Simple Mom

22 comments:

  1. > simple and sustainable living
    Beautiful focus.

    I think this becomes increasingly important as we continue to figure out what really counts in life, and how to make it happen.

    Thank you for including Sources of Insight among the community.

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    1. I completely agree. We're continuously striving to find a balance, to ensure that what really counts is at the forefront of our lives.

      Thank you for your comment!

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  2. So...are you aware that you have an owl in your header and owls happen to be one of my favorite animals? My handle all over the internet is OctoNoctua, a Latin mashup of owl and octopus. Rock on then.

    And thank you so much for including Leave Me to My Projects in your list! I gave you a shout out on my networks. I have actually been looking for a list like this! Honored to be included. Thanks again!

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    1. What a great comment you've left me, thank you! You've made my day!

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  3. http://flanneljammiesfarm.blogspot.com/
    Flannel Jammies Farm
    ...praising God on my 1/5 acre of suburbia

    What a wonderful gathering of like minds! Thank you for compiling this useful list!

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    1. Thank you for checking it out and adding a comment!

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  4. Hi Nicole,

    This is a great idea! I am on a journey towards simplifying. I have a long way to go!

    Ready. Set. Simplify.
    Http://readysetsimplify.com
    Simplify. Organize. Declutter. Prioritize.

    Elizabeth

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    1. Thank you so much for your comment. I'm adding your blog to this list!

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  5. Wow, such an extensive list! Great idea :) Thank you for including the Kanelstrand blog!

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    1. Hi Sonya,
      Thank you for your comment. Your blog is such a treasure, so I hope more people find you this way!
      Cheers,
      Nicole

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  6. What a wonderful list. Thank you so much Nicole for including us and our chickens on your wonderful website. We are honored.~Melissa

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    1. Hi Melissa. Thank YOU, and I hope to see your chickens someday when we're on the Cape. Have a wonderful evening!

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  7. Frugal Living is living better using less financial resources.EfrugalLiving teaches you how to create a budget, save money, reduceyour debt, earn extra cash and live simply.

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    1. Thank you for your comment! I've added E Frugal Living to our wonderful, growing list of resources!

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  8. Hi, I can't wait to read all these new blogs.

    Notjustgreenfingers is a blog about cooking from scratch, cleaning the old fashion way and growing fruit, vegetables and flowers organically in four UK allotments. And how to live well on less.

    http://notjustgreenfingers.wordpress.com/

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  9. http://ourcommoncommunity.blogspot.com/

    Realizing the transformative potential of our humanity.

    This blog is a work-in-progress and an exploratory journal as I find my path in this journey of simplification. I hope the thoughts I record may be of use to others as well.

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    1. Thank you, David. I've added your blog to the list!

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  10. Simply Kate - Living a Simpler, Joyful Life

    http://kate-simply.blogspot.com

    I'm trying to make a life based on full-time joy (not full-time employment). I hope to inspire those who aren't ready for a tiny house or an off-the-grid life but who want to make smaller changes to waste less, want less, and feel more connected to others and their environment.

    Thank you for publishing this list! What a great resource.

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