Green Flooring – Eco Friendly Flooring
Our millions of regular self sufficient readers (well, all 200 of you) will know (if you have been paying attention), that we live in Spain. It is the tradition here in nearly all homes to have tiled...
View ArticleA Year (and a bit) in the Self Sufficient Life
Okay, Mrs Dirty Boots here, Madam of this Self Sufficient homestead. Yep, I know I have been missing in action from this site. Rest assured I have been doing my bit though (just ran out of words to...
View ArticleStrand Woven Bamboo Flooring
Sorry for such a long absence, we have been very busy. John, who runs Reclaimed Hardwood Flooring has kindly sent in a guest post all about a great flooring product that is extremely environmentally...
View ArticleEco Homes and Not Going Green on Holiday
We have an old home, a run of the mill rural home, not an Eco home. But still we think we are a little bit Green. But take me on holiday and it all comes tumbling down. I confess my sins for a total...
View ArticleFrugal Living & Self Sufficiency Keep You Fit
Last weekend I realised how much more fit we were when everything was about frugal living and self sufficiency. You see, from part time olive farmers, part time vegetable growers, part time builders...
View ArticleThe Most Important Frugal Living Tip You’ll Ever Need
Or why window shopping is bad for you, oh and magazines, the internet and tv! The most simple and straightforward way to save money and live frugally is just to avoid shops. Hardly a jaw-dropping...
View ArticleStarting the Olive Harvest
I don’t know how many olives we will be able to harvest this year. Time is not something we seem to have enough of at the moment and other things are just more important. It’s a shame seeing olives...
View ArticleOrganic Shampoo for Better or Worse?
This is guest post and it makes for some very interesting reading, the things you learn by having a website! A friend of mine who was very proud of his luscious head of hair used to always talk about...
View ArticleKindle Reader – The Green Way to Read?
Who hasn’t heard about the Kindle Reader yet? It seems you cannot get away from talk that electronic books are the future, and indeed their sales are soaring so fast Amazon has already said that US...
View ArticleA New Beginning
It’s been a while (um years!) since A Self Sufficient Life was updated and a lot has changed for the Dirty Boots Gang. The big news (well for us at least) is that we’re no longer residing on a Spanish...
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