The Self Sustainable Business of
Frugal Living and Microholding
Frugal
living and working from home - get out of debt, quit the rat race,
save money and buy a house without a mortgage.
Take
the Frugal Living Challenge. It's all about knowing your bottom line
and getting the most out of your hard-earned cash. Mixing greener
living with eco-friendly work ethics can help save money, energy and
the environment. The world of multimedia is at your fingertips, so
why not make the most of it to help cut costs and find what you're
really looking for in life?
Create
your own working space, work hours to suit, clear debt and learn to
live and work within your means - it really can be that simple.
FRUGALDOM:
After several years of frugal living and employing the most cost-effective
ways of earning a living from home, wherever that may be, we are now
in the fortunate (some may say unfortunate) position of having bought
a Georgian terraced cottage on a small street within a semi-rural
location of Scotland. I say semi-rural as I don't want to give the
impression that we are in any way remote, because we aren't. We have
a post box on the street and the mobile library visits once every
three weeks. We are only three miles from the nearest village, which
has a variety of small shops, a post office, garage/petrol station
and a bank that opens two days per week. There is also a bus service,
although it doesn't quite reach us. Our street is one
mile from the rocky seashore, but I can see the sea if I look down
the hill from outside my front door.
We
bought the property outright, as a 'project'. It had lain empty for
some time and had fallen into a major state of disrepair. Despite
this, it took us only two months to create a semblance of habitability,
so we are now living and working from home - debt free and mortgage
free.
Property prices in parts of Scotland are still relatively inexpensive,
if you are prepared to work from home and do without all the 'mod-cons',
like mains gas, mains drainage/sewage, public transport, mobile phone
signals or superfast broadband. We have none of those things. We can
live without them.
We
are in the process of developing this near derelict property with
its quarter acre garden land into a microholding in the hope that
we can continue to earn a home-based living while making the place
as comfortable, self-sustainable and affordable as possible. This
is a work in progress and a project that can easily be copied or repeated
by anyone who has the will to succeed.
The
process of turning the cottage and garden into both our home and our
work is called microholding
and the cash we earn from home via the Internet is known as cyberdosh.
Multimedia
seems like the ideal way to earn a living, creating content while
interacting with the outside world, learning about the economy, the
environment, greener living, energy saving and permaculture.
I live within my means and this means earning enough to sustain a
frugal, yet fun, lifestyle.
