Kingfisher Cottage part two - Becoming more self-sufficient
Finally living at Kingfisher cottage on four acres of land, we can develop our long term dream, part of which is self-sufficiency. In the next decade, we aspire to cutting or controlling as many living costs as we can. Keeping costs under control will help us to spend on things that can earn us income in the future, and give us that warm feeling of independence. We also get to eat and drink more healthily as a side product of this too! So far we have made easy changes: · Reducing waste and re-purposing Year ago we cut costs where we could in order to save enough money for this home. We have continued just about all of these – there seems no good reason to go back to old habits. We wash out all our snap lock plastic bags and re-use them…they are often pegged on the line to dry! We don’t have a dryer – all washing is hung on the line or dries on a rack inside. We keep our old cars – while they are reliable and do the job...