An Apology, Food Inflation, Government Cuts, and a Teaser…

I owe you all an apology for being absent for a few weeks. Well, I’m back (briefly, to check in), but regular publishing will resume in early September. In the meantime, there are a few things that demand further thought…

Anyone who has been consuming mainstream media in whatever form over the last few weeks, cannot [...]

Saving and Investing for Self Sufficiency

So we’ve talked about how debt is bad and it needs to be killed off. We’ve highlighted the need to minimise your Tax footprint, and we’ve provoked a bit of thought about where we spend our hard earned cash.

So let’s say for the sake of argument that we’ve cleared all our debt (or at least [...]

Finance for Self Sufficiency

We’re back after a short break, but what on earth happened to the weather? When it starts to rain, after a week of scorching hot sun you know British summertime has arrived!

Our three part series on “Ten practical steps to becoming more self sufficient” generated a lot of interest, but still no comments! So far, [...]

Full speed ahead: YET ANOTHER Ten Practical Steps to Increase your Self Sufficiency

Today we conclude our series on practical things you can do to increase your level of self sufficiency.

As before, work through from the beginning and build slowly. The important thing is to review your vision of what self sufficiency looks like for you, and to build a cohesive plan to take you there. At the [...]

Moving up a Gear: Ten MORE Practical Steps to increase your Self Sufficiency

Continuing our series on practical things you can do to increase your level of self sufficiency. I haven’t had the opportunity to write as much as I’d like over the last few weeks, however from your feedback I know you find the practical articles useful, so here goes with ten MORE practical steps. If you [...]

Getting Started - Ten Practical Steps to becoming more Self Sufficient

I thought it was time for a series of articles that give you some practical things you can do to increase your level of self sufficiency. Remember, when we talk about Self Sufficiency we are talking about a change of mindset, taking responsibility for our own, and our family’s needs. To that end here are [...]

NEEDS versus WANTS

We’ve covered a variety of subjects with the posts so far and I wanted to begin to put some context around them for you so you can see where everything fits in. Let’s start with a “back to basics” question:

What do you really need to be self sufficient?

Shelter
Food
Water

That’s it! Self Sufficiency boils down to those [...]