Living this simple life is quite different to how I imagined it would be. When we first changed our spending habits, stopped buying stuff and began to conserve rather than consume, I believed we would live a quiet and thrifty life punctuated by the sound of us saying no to whatever cropped up. Surpise! That hasn't happened. What has happened is that we have more friends now than we have ever had, we do more, are more involved with our community and our lives have opened up and blossomed. We…
