(Part 2) Top products from r/simpleliving
We found 23 product mentions on r/simpleliving. We ranked the 305 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. One Man's Wilderness, 50th Anniversary Edition: An Alaskan Odyssey
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Number of reviews: 1
22. Winter: Notes from Montana
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
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23. Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded
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Number of reviews: 1
Psycho Cybernetics Updated and Expanded
24. If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
25. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
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Number of reviews: 1
Harper Perennial
27. The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Great product!
28. The Thoreau You Don't Know: The Father of Nature Writers on the Importance of Cities, Finance, and Fooling Around
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
29. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (P.S.)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Great product!
30. Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future (Edge Question Series)
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Number of reviews: 1
31. Teach Your Children Well: Why Values and Coping Skills Matter More Than Grades, Trophies, or "Fat Envelopes"
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Harper Perennial
32. Meet the Frugalwoods: Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 1
33. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
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Number of reviews: 1
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
35. The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 1
Plume
36. The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
lucid fascinating mind brain
37. Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Fully Revised and Updated for 2018
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Number of reviews: 1
Penguin Books
38. The Art of Simple Living: 100 Daily Practices from a Japanese Zen Monk for a Lifetime of Calm and Joy
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Some memoirs... would probably fall under "practical."
Yes it's possible. Though the current economic climate gives me pause. Peter Jenkins did it in the early 70's and wrote two books about it, A Walk Across America covering his route from Alfred, NY to New Orleans, LA, and The Walk West, covering the rest of the route, to Florence, Oregon. A 5 year trek (mostly because he kept staying with folks he met along the way for weeks or months at a time). So it can be done.
He basically did it by taking on temporary jobs along the walk whenever he ran out of money. For him, it became less about the walk, and more about the people he met along the way. That was really inspirational for me. I did a shorter version of it, a 3-week bicycle tour through 11 mountain passes in Colorado on less than $100 total, on a $10 thrift shop bike. Best three weeks of my whole life. I wish it lasted longer. I've done long walks too though nothing as spectacular.
On my bike trip, I found even going over mountains and up all those passes was a lot easier and faster on bicycle than walking. Instead of carrying 50-100 pounds on my back I put all that on my bicycle and pushed it up--then coast down the other side.
p.s. There are portable folding bicycles, that you can fold up, strap to your back, and carry, if you wish. But if backpacking is what you most want to do--then do that, and forget the bike. It's doable. :)
Here's an amazing Book on simple living that I just started reading. Just looking at the table of contents makes me happy that I feel like sharing it with others. . Its a list of 100 things you can do to lead a simpler life, the underlying theme is inline with minimalism and strives to add(strengthen) the purpose in your life and and be happier.
the art of simple living
I'm a big fan of Not so Big House by Sarah Susanka. The book doesn't really contain actionable information -- it's more about presenting and promoting her thesis that we should spend our housing budgets on well designed, well built homes with smaller footprints rather than using the same budget to build a larger house with worse design or materials.
I personally think you should use an architect if you have the budget. The knowledge they can bring to the process isn't really something a layperson can replicate well. If you do want to try designing your own, A Pattern Language would be an interesting read. It can provide some useful rules of thumb regarding specific design elements that you might not otherwise consider.
Also you should familiarize yourself with passive solar building design. If you consider the concepts when developing a design and choosing a site you'll be able to leverage them for cheaper heating/cooling at little or no additional design cost. Building a well-insulated structure (a big part of passive solar design) also makes for a more comfortable home in terms of thermal regulation, noise management, air quality management, etc.
You don't have to be religious to read and enjoy this either: "The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything." I really liked the bit on the Examens and living simply - which is pretty much the bulk of the book.
In Praise of Shadows is a another great read on Japanese aesthetics and minimalism.
If you get a chance you might be interested in reading Winter by Rick Bass. He basically gets hooked up with living in a pretty secluded house in the middle of no where to act as care-taker. Keep the house in basic shape and the rest of your time is yours to garden (assuming it's not the middle of winter), go for hikes, read, whatever.
I highly recommend his book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, that explains in greater detail the circumstances that led to his inventions.
I loved this book :) It gave me a lot of insight into who Henry was. Currently I'm reading The Thoreau you don't know: The Father of Nature Writers on the Importance of Cities, Finance, and Fooling Around
SUCH a good book. Teach your Children Well
If y'all want to read some more of Bryson's thoughts on this, many of his travel books delve very deeply into it. My two favorites are A Walk in the Woods and The Lost Continent.
This book, "Psycho-Cybernetics" by Maxwell Maltz, talks a lot about this, and coincidentally I'm 6 hours into the audio version at the moment (which you can find if you're clever):https://www.amazon.com/Psycho-Cybernetics-Updated-Expanded-Maxwell-Maltz/dp/0399176136/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1527054666&sr=8-1&keywords=psycho-cybernetics
Extremely classic book about this exactly
MMM before there was an MMM.
http://www.amazon.com/The-4-Hour-Workweek-Anywhere-Expanded/dp/0307465357/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1381785206&sr=8-1&keywords=four+hour+work+week
I recommend Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think compiled by Edge.org - it's really long but the essays are short (2-3 pages) and some of the insights are interesting to read. In the past month I have cut back on my "boredom browsing" and have had more time to do other things (read, exercise, etc.)
I feel like your post is right on the money. Some of us are drained by people, others are charged up by people. I prefer to be alone 99% of the time, aside from time with my wife. My wife and stepdaughter and one of my daughters prefer our personal time a great deal and rarely have people over. Almost never. Many of our neighbors are the same way!
There are many writers out there who have and do live in the wilderness. “They prefer their own company.” Richard “Dick” Proenneke who lives alone in Alaska. Sue Aikens. Dolly Faulkner. Heimo Korth and his wife. They all happen to live or lived in Alaska wilderness. They just prefer to be alone the vast majority of the time.
Some of us were not built for the people world, as I discovered as I read the books (and others) below.
https://www.amazon.com/Forty-Years-Wilderness-Dolly-Faulkner-ebook/dp/B00GU6N0JQ
https://www.amazon.com/Final-Frontiersman-Family-Alaskas-Wilderness-ebook/dp/B001D0IU5S/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=HEMO+KORTH&qid=1559087292&s=digital-text&sr=1-1-catcorr
https://www.amazon.com/One-Mans-Wilderness-50th-Anniversary-ebook/dp/B07G2F6GW1/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Proenneke&qid=1559087319&s=digital-text&sr=1-1-catcorr
Sure! Two books really helped me. One is Toxic Parents. It may not apply to your life though. My parents weren't alcoholics or physically abusive, but there was emotional abuse and emotional neglect. That book really helped me to be able to work through a lot of things from my childhood that I just couldn't let go of and would constantly think about.
The Brain That Changes Itself is a book that isn't really a self-help type book. But for me, it really inspired me. It showed me that I do have the power to change. Even to change things that I thought were impossible.
Sometimes, and I don't know if this applies to your understanding specifically, there is confusion around these two concepts. I have found that this excerpt from Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism, dense as it is, helps to clear it up:
> Loneliness is not solitude. Solitude requires being alone whereas loneliness shows itself most sharply in company with others. Apart from a few stray remarks--usually framed in a paradoxical mood like Cato's statement (reported by Cicero, De Re Publica, I, 17): numquam minus solum esse quam cum solus esset, "never was he less alone than when he was alone," or, rather, "never was he less lonely than when he was in solitude"--it seems that Epictetus, the emancipated slave philosopher of Greek origin, was the first to distinguish between loneliness and solitude. His discovery, in a way, was accidental, his chief interest being neither solitude nor loneliness, but being alone (monos) in the sense of absolute independence. As Epictetus sees it (Dissertationes, Book 3, ch. 13) the lonely man (eremos) finds himself surrounded by others with whom he cannot establish contact or to whose hostility he is exposed. The solitary man, on the contrary, is alone and therefore "can be together with himself" since men have the capacity of "talking with themselves." In solitude, in other words, I am "by myself," together with my self, and therefore two-in-one, whereas in loneliness I am actually one, deserted by all others. All thinking, strictly speaking, is done in solitude and is a dialogue between me and myself; but this dialogue of the two-in-one does not lose contact with the world of my fellow-men because they are represented in the self with whom I lead the dialogue of thought. The problem of solitude is that this two-in-one needs the others in order to become one again: one unchangeable individual whose identity can never be mistaken for that of any other. For the confirmation of my identity I depend entirely upon other people; and it is the great saving grace of companionship for solitary men that it makes them "whole" again, saves them from the dialogue of thought in which one remains always equivocal, restores the identity which makes them speak with the single voice of one unexchangeable person.