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Happy Simple Living · 2d ago

Book Giveaway – Win a New Hardback Copy of Search Inside Yourself

I’ve never read a book quite like Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) (HarperOne, $26.99). If you already know that Google offers a popular course for its employees called “Search Inside Yourself,” you’re one step ahead of me. But when I fir

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Happy Simple Living · 6d ago

How to Banish Green Gloom and Guilt

Photo by Pink Sherbet Photography Nobody talks about this much, but it seems to me that trying to live a sustainable life can sometimes be a Big Biohazardous Bummer. Earlier this week, I headed to the compost bin with a pan of water. The water had been soaking in a cooking pot, and instead of pourin

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Happy Simple Living · 2W ago

11 Easy to Grow Vegetable Seeds You Can Direct Sow Now and Enjoy an Organic Harvest this Summer

Photo by Jeremy Bronson If you never got around to starting any seedlings this spring and now you’re fretting about the expense of buying vegetable plants at the garden center, fear not! Many vegetable seeds can be sown directly in the dirt, where they’ll happy germinate and provide you with a nice

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Happy Simple Living · 2W ago

A Letter to the Meat Industry

Photo by Joost J. Bakker IJmuiden Yesterday I read an article on the PR news site Bulldog Reporter about the meat industry’s “image crisis.” From the public outcry against “pink slime,” to a recent incident of mad cow disease in a dairy cow, to the Harvard study released this spring that suggests ea

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Happy Simple Living · 3W ago

How to Make a Pizza from Scratch With this Easy Homemade Pizza Recipe

A homemade, half-sausage half-cheese pizza The first time I made a homemade pizza, I was dumbstruck by how much better it was than delivery pizza. The improvement in flavor was like comparing a home-grown summer tomato to one of those hard, pink, grocery store varieties – worlds apart. After I took

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Happy Simple Living · 1M ago

Mini Raspberry Custard Tart Recipe

For a recent baby shower, I was hankering to bake something pretty and petite that would pair well with fresh raspberries. I was envisioning a crispy, sweet little tart shell filled with vanilla custard and topped with whipped cream and raspberries. When I couldn’t find a recipe with that particula

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Happy Simple Living · 1M ago

Win a Copy of a Great Book from My New Blog

My name is Eliza, and I have too many blogs. I’m a…a…blogaholic. Along with Happy Simple Living, I have a blog on my professional website: I blog at Bensa International, the exclusive society for bacon lovers: And my latest project is 100 Things I Want: 100 Things I Want is a place for pe

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Happy Simple Living · 1M ago

Save the Bees and Two Simple, Free Things You Can Do

Photo by Karen Roe American honeybees are disappearing at an alarming rate, and some think the EPA knows why. A growing body of evidence shows that widespread use of nicotine-based insecticides called neonicotinoids is linked to Colony Collapse Disorder. Several countries, including Germany and Fran

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Happy Simple Living · 1M ago

8 Thoughts About Simplicity and Money

Photo by Chris Reed “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand. Instead of a million, count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.” ~ Henry David Thoreau What does financial simplicity mean to you? For me, it’s t

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Happy Simple Living · 3M ago

Easy Breakfast Burrito Recipe for Stress-Free Mornings

You are going to love having a stash of frozen breakfast burritos in your freezer. Once you’ve made a batch (which takes about 45 minutes, not including freezing time), you’ll be able to prepare a hot, well-balanced, nutritious breakfast that’s easy to take on the go—in less than three minutes. Her

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