Rural Reliance with The Canny Couple

On this week's episode, Aaron and Julia discuss how delayed gratification is a benefit to your homesteading goals and dreams. The "want it now" mentality is not always the best approach to achieving your goals.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

How good are your homestead systems? Aaron and Julia have some basic tools they use to continuously improve their homestead systems, creating a more successful homestead in the long run.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

How do you stop the pressures to influence how you take care of your family or how to spend your hard earned dollars? Julia shares the principles that guide her to maintain her family goals.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

On this week's episode, Aaron and Julia share their frugal triumphs and failures for the past month. Living a frugal lifestyle is intentional and takes time and effort, but the end results are well worth it.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Are you struggling to find a balance between homesteading, teaching, and parenting? Julia shares a few of the tips she has learned when homesteading with a small child that work well for her family.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

If you are looking for ideas and inspirations to spend less time in your garden and more time enjoying your harvest, Aaron and Julia have some great suggestions for you. Over the years, they have found ways to save time and money in their garden while their focus has shifted to creating a better garden space for future harvests.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

How have you built out your pantry? In this week's episode, Julia shares her top pantry staples and how she built her pantry to work for her family for any situation.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

What projects have Aaron and Julia been working on to get ready for Spring on the homestead? This is a year of progress and they are already seeing big improvements on their homestead.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Is it ever to early or late to start learning? Part of homesteading is constant learning and incorporating these same principals into everyday life with a toddler can help create a balanced foundation for homeschooling in later years.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

This week, Aaron and Julia talk about their recent trips to the Bushcraft, Homestead and Preparedness Expo and the Kentucky Sustainable Living Homesteading & Preparedness Festival. There is so much opportunities at these events.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Decluttering on the homestead can feel overwhelming. How do you make a decision on what to keep and get rid of when everything can seem useful in the future? Julia shares how she keeps an organized homestead and her key might surprise you.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

On this week's episode, Aaron and Julia dive into their monthly budget successes and failures. Join them as they discuss how they were able to cut costs and what they learned in this month's Homestead Frugal Tactics.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Today, Julia discusses the struggles of being a female homesteader. Finding the simple life can sometimes feel impossible, but if you stick to it, the sense of purpose you find can be astounding.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

If you are thinking about starting a homestead, Aaron and Julia share their best reasons to contemplate jumping on the homestead train. They also discuss what to consider when actually starting your own homestead.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

In this week's episode, Julia discusses her biggest homestead mistakes that cost her and her family money, time and effort. She shares the pitfalls you can avoid on your own homestead.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

This week, Aaron and Julia share how to avoid some expensive mistakes to help save money on the homestead. These are strategies they employ daily as they made these very same errors on their own homestead journey.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Food preservation is a foundation of homesteading. Julia discusses why this should be a priority for you and your family.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Aaron and Julia analyze how the Three Rivers Pantry Challenge went for January and February of 2024. A pantry challenge is always eye opening and even when successful, you can always find ways to improve upon your working food storage.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

It has been a few weeks since Julia shifted to being a SAHM, and today she shares how she is adjusting. Life has changed for the Canny Couple and the homesteading is thriving.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

In this week's episode of Rural Reliance, Aaron and Julia detail how effective their budgeting was this month, if they met their savings goals, and how they did it.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

In this week's episode, Julia discusses some simple ideas to limit the chaos in the day to day homestead life. We embrace homesteading for the allure of a simple life, but sometimes the homestead can feel anything but simple.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Aaron and Julia discuss why learning old traditions and skills can help create a more sustainable homestead. They talk about how they try to incorporate or remember the older ways on their own homestead.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

If you are looking for tips for a stress-free seed stating set-up, Julia has you covered in this weeks episode of Farm Wife, Sexy Life. By making these small tweaks in her own set-up, Julia has removed most of the headaches she personally experienced at the first part of garden season.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Garden season is almost here, and today Julia goes over her best tips to help you start off the season right. These steps will help you have a less stressful and more successful planting season.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple life, working toward debt free living. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

In this week's episode of Rural Reliance, Aaron and Julia discuss ways you can take the fundamental principals of frugality and apply them to everyday life. Turn your frugality mindset towards your day to day to help you live a more sustainable and obtainable life.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple life, working toward debt free living. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

On this week's episode, Julia chews over where she is half-way through the pantry challenge she is participating in. She discusses her successes, challenges and holes in her pantry.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple life, working toward debt free living. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

In this month's Homestead Frugal Tactics, Aaron and Julia discuss how they are maximizing their savings to kick off the new year. From savings on groceries to everyday purchase, they share with you how they reach their savings goals for January.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple life, working toward debt free living. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Julia details what her role on the homestead looks like now that she is at home full time. This big life shift is definitely taking her family and homestead in the right direction.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple life, working toward debt free living. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Frugality and budgeting have been one of Aaron and Julia's keys to success and helped them achieve big goals in a short time frame. On this episode, they discuss what their future looks like and how the changes they have made will hopefully bring more accomplishments, while keeping to the basic frugality principals they live by.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple life, working toward debt free living. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Change is a good thing, right? Year 2024 is a year of changes for Julia and her homestead. Join her as she discusses how her life has changed in Part 1 of a two part series.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple life, working toward debt free living. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

The minimalist movement is still rolling strong and Aaron and Julia look at this lifestyle change through the lens of homesteading. Is it possible to be a homesteading minimalist? Tonight, they discuss their thoughts on the topic.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple life, working toward debt free living. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Tonight, Julia discusses the importance of goals, especially individual goals. It is simple to build up yourself and your homestead all at the same time with these simple steps.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple life, working toward debt free living. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Are finances a big part of your 2024 financial goals? As frugal homesteaders, financial goals are just as important as homestead goals for Aaron and Julia. Join them as they discuss how they plan on maximizing their saving and spending in 2024 to ensure they remain debt free, setting up for future successes.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple life, working toward debt free living. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Tonight, Julia discusses how she plans to create more time and efficiencies for her homestead. Cutting time in one area creates opportunities in others, and homesteading is all about creating opportunities.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple life, working toward debt free living. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Tonight, Aaron and Julia discuss how they did on their financial goals for the homestead in December. They tell all of their successes and failures, what works and what doesn't, hoping to inspire you on your own homestead frugality journey.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple life, working toward debt free living. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Winter is here! What measures do you take as a homesteader to get ready for cold? As a wife and mom, I try to keep on top of these few things to keep our household running no matter the conditions outside.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple life, working toward debt free living. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

In tonight's episode, Aaron and Julia discuss their priorities for the homestead in 2024. Year 2023 was full of rough patches, but 2024 is all about progress by moving forward and expanding the homestead.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple life, working toward debt free living. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

On this weeks episode, Julia discusses what she sees are the differences between other moms and homestead moms. While we are all the same with the same goals, homestead moms tend to run in the opposite direction from what society tells them to do.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple life, working toward debt free living. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

On this weeks episode, Aaron and Julia discuss a few items to consider when preparing for power outages in any weather. These preps are good to have on hand for any situation, but become necessities during a blackout.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple life, working toward debt free living. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Tonight, Julia discusses how she steps out of her comfort zone to help with the family side hustles. Finding your expertise in an uncomfortable situation will help you grow and learn as you create more freedom for you and your family.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple life, working toward debt free living. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Tonight, Aaron and Julia discuss why you should consider building a side hustle and what struggles to be aware of. With our current economy, a side hustle can be a life line.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple life, working toward debt free living. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

It is hard to be a solid support system for your family when everything keeps moving around you. Tonight, Julia shares her top tips to help you be there for your family, even during your busiest seasons.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple life, working toward debt free living. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

In this month's Homestead Frugal Tactics, Aaron and Julia discuss how following simple principals has helped them saved hundred's of dollars through out one of the most expensive months of the year. While straight forward, these ideas are often overlooked when they can really help you cut cost and spend less overall.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple life, working toward debt free living. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Trying to give the best gifts but also stay on budget? Julia gives you easy tips and tricks to help you cut your costs and spending while giving the people most important to you meaningful gifts. Through much trial and error, Julia uses these same strategies to keep her and Aaron's budget on point for any holiday or gift giving season.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple life, working toward debt free living. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Aaron and Julia examine how being self-reliant is a major aspect of their frugality principles. Being frugal is more than just saving money on the homestead and being self-sufficient can greatly increase your chances of a successful thrifty lifestyle.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple life, working toward debt free living. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Busy, busy bees, how do you pace yourself when life gets crazy? Julia points out a few small things you can start doing to help ease the tensions of a swamped season, focusing on making progress where required. When she employees these tips, Julia finds her success rate and productivity soar.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple life, working toward debt free living. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.