Abundant Living is about so much more than money.   It is about making choices that allow you to spend time with family and friends.  It is about taking off on a Friday morning and hitting the fishing pond with a good friend.  It is about spending a lot of time with our growing children so that we are in charge of their education and moral development.  It is about choosing what is important over what is urgent.  It is spending 28 years with someone and looking forward to another 28 or more.  It is picking up apples from the ground to make applesauce and cider and getting in a rotten apple fight with your neighbor and children.  The list goes on. 

Living abundantly is about living within your means rather than above or below. It is about some "old fashioned" but very sound values.  The concept that credit is something that is the exception for your finances rather than the normal.  Do you really want to spend up to half of your income on the opportunity to use other peoples money?  Think of what could be done with that money in your own life!  I am a great believer in the use of credit to purchase a house or even reliable transportation for your family.  I just don't believe that you should use it to pay for things you really can't afford and often don't really need! 

We have a lot of fun in our life and we have found some great ways to see and do just about everything you can imagine.  Come along and learn how you can live abundantly using tips I learned from "old money" families and those who lived abundantly during the depression and recessions.

Browse through our urban homestead, educate yourself about power options and self sufficiency and join us for discussion on the bulletin board which will be available March 1, 2010.  Check out our companion sites for information about home and self organization, building an intentional community, home based jobs and my search for family history.