A Homegrown Family: Plain and Simple on Wednesday

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Plain and Simple on Wednesday

Starting next Wednesday we will have our Plain and Simple post. Like I said on Tuesday, I would like to start inviting others to share their plain and simples, this way I can see and learn from all the lovely women around the world.

I hope you share what you are doing or learning with me on Wednesdays. Post pictures and/or just write out what you want to share. I will have a Mr. Linky so all can link to this post and we will have a collection of plain and simple ladies sharing and learning together. Those who do not have blogs can leave a comment as to what they are doing.

I originally wanted it on Tuesday, but have decided to change it to Wednesday. My friend Emily, has a wonderful carnival going on Tuesday's and I didn't want to complicate the day. If you would like to join in on her Prayerful Tuesday I am sure she would love it.

Please use the header above by using the link on the sidebar it will link your post to my site. I am excited to see what I can learn from so many wonderful women. Feel free to place the the button for Plain and Simple on your blog or my button for this blog.

have a blessed day...

Love,

Erika

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AnonymousMarch 24, 2011 at 10:57 AM
Looking forward to this my friend...

M.
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The Old-Fashioned Homemaker. . .
~Does her best, and leaves God the rest.
~Does not indulge in self-pity, but loses her life in the service of her fellow man.
~Dresses to please her Lord and family.
~Guards her health as her greatest wealth.
~Knows that an apron is a girl's best friend.
~Knows that home-making is an art and a science, and is always learning something new.
~Lets her joy bubble out in song, all day long.
~Lives in His light, not her own.
~Loves Nature, and teaches her children to respect its Creator.
~Never gives up.
~Strives to be self-sufficient.

Thomas Jefferson’s 10 Rules to Live by:
1. Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.
2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have earned it.
4. Never buy what you don’t want because it is cheap.
5. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
6. We seldom repent of having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. How much pain the evils have cost us that never happened.
9. Take things always by the smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten before you speak, if very angry, count to a hundred.

Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtues
1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
9. MODERATION. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
10. CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
11.TRANQUILLITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
12. CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
13. HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.