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15£®Time is more precious than money for an increasing number of people who are choosing to live more with less-and liking it£®Kay and Charles Giddens£¬two lawyers£¬sold their home to start a B&B hotel£®Four years later£¬the couple dishes out banana pancake breakfast£¬cleans toilets and serves homemade chocolate chip cookies to guests in a B&B hotel surrounded by trees on a hill known for colourful sunsets£®
"Do I miss the freeways£¿Do I miss the traffic£¿Do I miss the stress£¿No£¬"says Ms£®Giddens£¬"This is a phenomenon that's fairly widespread£®A lot of people are revaluating their lives and figuring out what they want to do£®If their base is being damaged£¬what's the payoff£¿"
Simple living ranges from cutting down on weeknight activities to sharing housing£¬living closer to work£¬avoiding shopping malls£¬borrowing books from the library instead of buying them£¬and taking a cut in pay to work at a more pleasurable job£®
Vicki Robin£¬a writer£¬lives on a budget equal to a fifth of what she used to make£®"You become conscious about where your money is going and how valuable it is£¬"Ms£®Robin says£¬"You tend not to use things up£®You cook at home rather than eat out¡"
Janet Luhrs£¬a lawyer£¬quit her job after giving birth and leaving her daughter with a nanny for two weeks£®"It was not the way I wanted to raise my kids£¬"she says£¬"Simplicity is not just about saving money£» it's about me sitting down every night with my kids to a candlelit dinner with classical music£®"
Mrs£®Luhrs now edits a magazine£¬Simple Living£¬which publishes tips on how to buy recycled furniture and shoes£¬organize potluck dinners instead of expensive receptions£¬and generally how to consume less£®
Mrs£®Luhrs explains£¬"It's not about poverty£®It's about conscious living and creating the life you want£®The less stuff you buy£¬the less money goes out of the door£¬and the less money you have to earn£®"
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