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Weight Loss and Wigs The Story I Never Intended to Share

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This isn’t really a homesteading post so feel free to skip it if you are at a perfect weight and your hair is thick enough for 3 people.

Today I am talking weight loss and wigs – the story I never intended to share. I worried about sharing this because I so often talk about clean eating and simple living…how would this fit in with my beliefs and what you all know about me? BUT on my walk today I felt like God was prompting me to lay it all out there because someone needed to hear it. So I put it on my private Facebook page. The response was so incredible it brought me to tears! Then a blogging friend said, please share this with your readers; I took a deep breath and typed this out!

Weight Loss and Wigs The Story I Never Intended to Share

Weight Loss and Wigs The Story I Never Intended to Share

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The Truth About Backyard Homesteaders

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It is time the truth about backyard homesteaders is out…and I’m going to come clean! Some of you think you know, but only the backyard homesteaders really know! There are too many untruths and straight-up bologna going around the net and blogs. Buckle up ya’ll, I have 12 truths about backyard farmers for you!

The Truth About Backyard Homesteaders & Farmers

The Truth About Backyard Homesteaders

Truth #1 – Backyard homesteaders know how to use the space we are given.  Sure we might not have acres…we might not even have a 1/4 acre.  But we have learned to make the most of what we have; and every space is utilized.

Truth #2 – We love a good DIY.  From making soap to building chicken coops from pallets.  We love a do-it-yourself project.

Truth #3 – Many backyard homesteaders are trying to keep their homestead on the DL (down low folks). Some are in HOAs that don’t allow vegetable gardens, much less chickens and others have city ordinances working against them….

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20 Things About Me

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20 Facts About Me - the woman behind ImperfectlyHappy.com

I don’t write a lot of super personal things on Imperfectly Happy.  It isn’t that I don’t want you to know, but I figure there are more interesting things to talk about.  lol  But as we wrap up 2015 and I’m 2 and half years into this blog I thought you might want to know a bit more about me.  So I put together this list of random things/facts about me.  So let’s start with a freebie fact…the picture on the left is the character I’ve used for the blog from the start.  She is the creation of my niece, a gifted artist.  She some of my features (before I cut all my hair off) with aspects I wanted in to create her.  The one on the right is me…earlier this year.

Alright…let’s get this party started….

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Goodbye Mom

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Goodbye Mom

My mom and me in the late 70s.

Goodbye Mom? I don’t write a lot of super personal stuff on Imperfectly Happy.  It isn’t that I am not an open person, I just figure my life isn’t as interesting as the information I have to share.  But today is different.  Today is the 30th anniversary of my mom’s death. It has been one of the hardest I can remember;  I am having trouble stopping the tears. And for whatever reason I feel compelled to write about that.

In 1985 I was a tall, confused, 13 year old with a few pimples. I was also the daughter of a woman who had been sick for 4 years. See my mom was dying of liver cirrhosis, only I didn’t really know that.  I knew she was sick; but I didn’t know she was living on borrowed time.

My mom had been a drug addict for years.  I hate saying that because from my perspective she wasn’t what most people would think of when they think heroine addict.  She was a good mom, we were loved, clean, fed; but she had a secret side too.  In 1981 she was 28 and she was cleaning her life up.  She had a good job, we weren’t living with my grandmother and life seemed to be pretty normal.  My mom had scoliosis and now she finally had insurance to pay for her back to be fixed. But that required a full body cast for months.  So the doctors felt it was necessary to be sure there were no underlying issues that could pop up after surgery….

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Living Within Your Means

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I have a few simple ways you can start living within your means today. Living with your means; many of us aren’t even familiar with this term.  By definition, means refers to a person’s income or assets; so living within one’s means is to not spend greater than your income or assets. It is a foreign concept in our modern world but it is a skill we can still acquire!
Living Within Your Means - Simple Tips to Help You Stick to Your Budget

Living Within Your Means

I’ve compiled 10 tips and questions you can go through to help us all start living within our means.  If you are like us you may be paying off some debt from times you didn’t live like this; but don’t be discouraged. It is NEVER too late to start, trust me. Living within the parameters of our budget isn’t always easy.  There are certainly temptations to spend and over spend on a pretty regular basis. But ultimately we don’t want to look like we are wealthy while we are struggling to pay the electric bill.

Tips for Living Within Your Budget…

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