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    Sustainable Living

    Oct 01, 2020 4 minutes
    By Bernadette Saulenier, Monbulk, Vic.

    Frugality does not mean depriving yourself of food, comfort or pleasure. It just means thriving on less, enjoying life with a lighter footprint. It brings on more abundance in the form of contentment, and blissful moments in a beautiful garden.

    Have you ever asked yourself the simple question: how much is enough?

    Once you have put aside money for rent or mortgage, basic food and utilities, health, clothing and transport, how much do you need to feel happy?

    We have been taught to focus on what we don’t have and how to get it, rather than on what we have and how to enjoy it. In the process of making it in life, we forgot that it is not

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