Hey, friends, welcome back to the old-fashioned on-purpose podcast. So really the theme of a lot of the

episodes of this season is asking ourselves, what do we really want? And what lights us up?

And what are we meant to do?

And I've been sharing some of my own stories of how I have gone through periods of self-abandonment

in my life or I haven't listened to my gut and I've done things out of obligation or shoulds.

And this episode is in that same vein.

Someone brought this up to me over on Instagram and they asked,

how do I know which parts of old-fashioned living I... This episode is in that same vein. Someone brought this up to me over on Instagram and they asked,

how do I know which parts of old fashioned living I want to embrace and which parts maybe I should let go?

So I think this is a really good question.

It's something that's been on mine personally lately.

As I shared last week, you know, I'm not planting my outdoor garden this year. I'm kind of figuring out with this new season of life with my kids being busy and different businesses and being involved in the community more, what homesteading looks like for me and what skills I really want to hold on to and which ones I may put on the shelf for a while. So I want to walk you through my thought process on that. So maybe you can do an audit of your own life to figure out what pieces of this old fashioned lifestyle you really love and maybe which pieces you're doing

because you think you have to. So I think this is going to be good. And let's get started.

So before we get into the rest of it, I want to remind you, we still have some old fashioned on purpose

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in town. There's pieces for your garden, your kitchen, your pantries, your freezers, and then

the weekly spreads are designed in how I set up my life every week to keep things streamlined.

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Okay, so I think I expressed this a few episodes ago that one of the biggest mistakes we've made with homesteading. And again,

not a mistake. I think it happened naturally, but it's where we are with the movement, if you

will, is that we've turned it into sort of a purity test. Or sometimes we have that perception that it's

all or nothing. It's this big monolith. It's just this package of things that you have to do to count.

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