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Hi! We're Mason and Stacey and here's our story. It's just a little explanation as to how we came to want 'a GOOD and SIMPLE life'…
DURING OUR SINGLE YEARS...
We were having similar experiences, although we were thousands of miles apart. We were each seeking a good life but we were looking in all the wrong places.
We thought that happiness came from seeking constant pleasure and doing as little work as possible to earn it.
We thought that happiness came from seeking constant pleasure and doing as little work as possible to earn it.
We couldn't have been more wrong.
The windows of amusement we were chasing seemed to shut more quickly than we wished leaving us without focus and having obtained nothing of real value.
This lifestyle led us to live beyond our means, seeking happiness through purchases, which only added stress and worry.
This lifestyle led us to live beyond our means, seeking happiness through purchases, which only added stress and worry.
After spending many years chasing our tails, we decided we needed to do things differently.
FINALLY WE MET!
We fell in love, got married and started our family all while trying to pay off past debts and begin a new life. This time though, we choose to live a more responsible life, a more content life, a good life.
Changing our attitudes and habits hasn’t been easy, it’s been a slow process, but we’re doing it!
FINALLY WE MET!
We fell in love, got married and started our family all while trying to pay off past debts and begin a new life. This time though, we choose to live a more responsible life, a more content life, a good life.
Changing our attitudes and habits hasn’t been easy, it’s been a slow process, but we’re doing it!
GOING AGAINST THE GRAIN
We’ve learned that we are not happy in the fast paced, overspent, over-processed life that many American’s live. For example:
- We have a lot of fun and get a lot of satisfaction from cooking a meal together, not to mention that it happens to be healthier and quite often cheaper too.
- We’ve found the contentment that comes from budgeting, saving, carefully researching purchases, and avoiding the clutter and complication that comes from impulsive spending.
- We want to be as self-sufficient as possible and to strength those necessary skills and attitudes.
- We want to simplify and slow down, to truly live the "less is more" philosophy.
- We’re learning to garden and use many of our own vegetables and herbs.
- We’re realizing that this lifestyle we desire is more effective in bringing us closer together as a family.
Our efforts haven’t always been successful but we get a real sense of accomplishment as we continue to learn and improve. And we're having fun in the process.
We look forward to sharing what we’re learning, our successes and our failures. We hope that as you read along with us, you’ll be inspired to seek a good and simple life too and that you’ll find the happiness and satisfaction that we’re finding.
Are you trying to live a good and simple too... what's your story?
