Tonight we have a reading of the Pagan version of The Night Before Christmas by Mia of the LFTN Mewe Group – join the group here: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
Join us each night at 6pm leading up to Christmas.
Join us for the second in this year’s series of versions of The Night Before Christmas for the Redneck version, read by The Tactical Redneck.
Join us each night at 6pm leading up to Christmas
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Today, we have the first in our Night Before Christmas series for 2023, beginning with Leos: The Intellectual Night Beofre Christmas.
Join us each night at 6pm leading up to Christmas
Today is the annual BIG REVEAL of my word of the year. Time to redouble efforts in a new direction for LFTN, for Nicole Sauce and for the community! We will also cover our usual Monday segments.
Sponsor 1: John Pugliano and the Wealthsteading Podcast, InvestableWealth.com
Sponsor 2: AgoristTaxAdvice.com
Last new Podcast of the year, Night Before Christmas, Motivation week
Livestream Schedule
Tuesday – not sure if we will have a livestream
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
- New Freezer – Luckily no losses, Also YoLink
- Bone Broth Rotation and what we do with the bones
- Putting the home back together and the pantry reset
Weekly Shopping Report: None today
Frugality Tip from Margo
It’s holiday baking time!!!!! But not everyone has time, or the funds to make all the cookies. Host a cookie exchange, maybe do it with a potluck. Dinner and a variety of cookies for the price of one batch and one dish. Everyone brings a batch of cookies, and goes home with a variety. Super fun and saves you time and money.
Happy baking y’all.
~Margo
Operation Independence: Coffee Season, an Update
Main topic of the Show: Word of the Year
Today is the last new show of the year and as I wander off into a time of reflection, rejuvenation, and investment in my family relationships, it is also time to revel my word of the year.
What the word of the year is and why they are helpful
How it integrates with my3things
Past ones
- Grow
- Balance
- Focus
- Breakthrough
Quick summary of what I learned.
What I thought it would be DL
Words I considered.
HOW I GOT TO MY WORD
What I hope it will bring me
Sharper results
More of less
Steadier hand, communications, balance
Purge
The word:
When to start and wrap up, you can, you can, you can
Make it a great week!
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One legend explaining the origin of pirogi claims that St. Hyacinth brought the dumpling from Kiev during a time of famine in the thirteenth century. So when a neighbor suggested pirogi for the Holiday table, it wasn’t a matter of “if” but of what to fill them with.
We hope you’ll take this recipe into your household and add comments to tell us all what fillings you’ve developed and loved.
Today we talk about projects on the homestead, sheep, coyotes, squirrels, homegrown meals and more.
Sponsor 1: The Wealthsteading Podcast (InvestableWealth.com)
Sponsor 2: Agorist Tax Advice (AgoristTaxAdvice.vcom/LFTN)
Winter is here — brr
Branding talk
Long term picture is coming together, repairing things all the way
Forage
- Field Hay
- Jerusalem Artichoke\
- Ferns – looking into what kind (Sheep are eating it)
- Watercress got beaten back
Livestock
- Duck Jail has finally happened
- Sheep need minerals – staying in again
- Sheep eating more than expected which is great for clearing
- Hawk Stories
- Rabbits – Poop is adding Up
- LGDS, Guns, and Coyotes
- Time to process more roosters
Grow
- Planning to get the indoor lettuce grow operation going in January
- Still need to plant garlic
Harvest Meals
- Taco Salad
- Easy Pork Loin
- Workshop Leftover Lamb Stew With Radishes
Holler Neighbors/Community
- Secret Santa
- Holler Neighbors and DAS PROJECT
- Squirrel Issue at the Duplex and tapping the network
- Dan starting a welding/repair business with a friend
Infrastructure
- Floor Update
- One more stretch of hard fencing
Finances
- Cow update likely for the next show
- Spending $$ on woodworking tools to work on building things from her (Furniture, etc)
Make it a great week!
GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift!
Community
- Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
- Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup
- Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b
Advisory Board
- The Booze Whisperer
- The Tactical Redneck
- Chef Brett
- Samantha the Savings Ninja
Resources
Today, as promised, we will talk about what is changing as we move into next year, the why, as well as our usual Monday segments.
Featured Event: LFTN Spring Workshop – April 25-27, 2024
Sponsor 1: DiscountMylarBags.com
Sponsor 2: EMPShield.com Coupon Code LFTN
Livestream Schedule
Tuesday Live, 12:30PM Central, Nicole Sauce and John Willis welcome Porterhouse!
Friday Homestead Happenings, 9:30am Central
Sunday: Monetizing Sunshine – Join us for an INTERVENTION with Willow to help her monetize what she does best – spreading Sunshine. I will be joined by a mastermind panel: Toolman tim Cook, Brian Aleksivich, Kerry Brown and
TORNADO UPDATE
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
- We fit 2.5 cows in the freezer by playing freezer tetris – yolink
- Pulled a PILE OF MEAT OUT for this week to stay on plan despite the ongoing construction chaos
- Crockpot roast: onion, garlic, cumin, 1 jar tomato sauce, salt and pepper. Add carrots 4 hours before finish or if you fumble that ball, precook them and add them in
Weekly Shopping Report
12/11/2023
We took our usual trip on Saturday. It was a rather gloomy day, but not truly yucky, and we stayed dry. Traffic was light.
Dollar Tree was first. The coolers (food and drink) are all in decent shape, as though perhaps an effort is being made. The store has become a LOT busier over the past few weeks, and three cashiers were open. Amidst the junk, there are some good finds here. Feel free to listen to Jinne on her “Homestead Corner” YouTube channel; she often does budget Dollar Tree prepper hauls.
Home Depot was second. FYI, they will shake your own paint cans for you, and I don’t think there’s a charge. The tag was missing in the store, but looking online it looks like a 2x4x8 has gone up 7 cents to $3.25.
Aldi was last. We found everything we wanted, but the chocolate is dwindling again. We got the last small piece of Atlantic Salmon, but the cashier said they were expecting a truck. There were some price adjustments. Staple prices were: milk: $3.02, eggs: $1.66, heavy cream: $4.69, OJ: $3.29, butter: $2.99 (-), bacon: $4.25, potatoes: $3.99 (+), sugar: $3.09, four: $1.99, 80% ground beef: $4.19.
A gallon of untainted regular gasoline is $3.699.
I made a quick second trip to Walgreen’s on Sunday to restock vitamin C; somehow our last bottle was nearly empty. FYI, they typically have BOGO deals on vitamins and supplements, or buy one at full price, and the second is half price. The C was BOGO, so we now have a couple years’ worth, for around $21. There were holes here and there for certain brands or sizes of various vitamins and supplements, but overall the selection looked complete.
Frugality Tip: none this week
Operation Independence
Poverty Mindset, Project Fatigue, and the color of my floor
Main topic of the Show: 2024 Changes for LFTN
No – I am not pregnant LOL
Remember my epiphany from this year’s word: Breakthrough? Do Less
Healthier Nicole: fitness, family, food, time, Home
With that in mind and having tapped into some of the data for the podcast, your comments and interactions on social media, email requests and more, I realized that 2024 has to bring some changes so here they are:
LFTN, the podcast and show
- Tuesday Lives will Become a Stand Alone Podcast
- 3 shows a week on a schedule, Monday 2pm, Wednesday 2pm, Friday. 9:30am
- Tactical will join me weekly – sometimes one or the other will be solo
- Focus and topics: building freedom as an agorist, homesteading life and how to, community, creating success
- Weekly Mail and marketing/clerical help
- Increase Playfulness – or rather return to it, New shorts series
- Clarity on affiliate promotions
THE HOMESTEAD
Refocusing on the things we love most
Building the event center where Tactical lives
Acquiring more land
Collaboration with Dawn Gorham, Homegrown Cooking: Cooking from snout to tail, video based, membership, etc.
SRF and LFTN Spring Workshop (EVENT PLANNER?)
Fewer speaking engagements – why
THE BOOK – an update
Project Accelerators and Mastermind
Holler Roast Coffee – to the moon! (SELL IT?)
Membership
Membership schedule for the year – 12 webinars, not monthly
New value ads, youtube subscriptions
Rental properties (SELL IT?)
Make it a great week!
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Resources
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Today we talk about meat, meat finances, balancing all the things and the phrase “when we catch up on large projects on the homestead
Sponsor 1: StrongRootsResources.com
Sponsor 2: DiscountMylarBags.com
Forage
- Same as last week: tubers, roots, and winter hardy things
A word on SOCIAL
Livestock
- Everyone has stayed in so far, sheep wise with the high volume of field hay
- Working them through 3-4 times
- Rabbits are doing well
- THE HAWK
Grow
- Confession about garlic
Harvest Meals
- Lamb stew in the crock pot
- Chinese and Mexican food harvested from a local restaurant
Holler Neighbors/Community
- Trying to keep up while doing this project has gotten particularly hard
- Christmas Concert this weekend
Infrastructure
- Need a new fence charger and not sure which to get
Finances
- Whole cow was $1900 (which is $158 a month)
Make it a great week!
GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift!
Community
- Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
- Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup
- Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b
Advisory Board
- The Booze Whisperer
- The Tactical Redneck
- Chef Brett
- Samantha the Savings Ninja
Resources
Today we talk about reducing drama in your life, Gen X language and childhoods, The Clown Circus, and energy generation with Jack Spirko and John Willis.
Featured Event: Freedom Cell Event in Medina Ohio: https://www.yorkmeadowfarm.com/medina-freedom-cell-network-december-2023
Sponsor 1: InvestableWealth.com
Sponsor 2: HollerRoast.com
Show Resources
Main content of the show
Make it a great week!
GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.
Community
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- IG: @nicolesauce
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LivingFreeInTN
Resources
Today, we dive more deeply into why having a home that works for you is so important to overall success.
Featured Event: Dec 9, Mastersingers Christmas Concert, Cookeville TN: https://mastersingersinc.com/product/christmas/
Sponsor 1: AgoristTaxAdvice.com
Sponsor 2: HollerRoast.com
Livestream Schedule
Tuesday, 9:30 Live with Jack Spirko and John Willis
Friday, 9:30 Live Homestead Happenings
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
- 10 pound meatloaf
- Awesome venison shin stew LOL
- Waiting on plan despite the chaos went well but took work (The stir fry bail out)
- Getting set for more cold AND to move back into my home this week
- There will be a post Christmas Pantry Audit
- 2 incoming cows this week and the ice cream freezer
Weekly Shopping Report: None posted
Frugality Tip: None Sent
Operation Independence
- 90% of my focus is on Holler Roast Right Now
- A work on podcast schedule: Dec 19 is the last show for 2023 aside from the Night Before Christmas series
Main topic of the Show:
Usually when I talk about this topic, I am explaining how to transform your home from something that costs you money into something that brings YOU money – or at least pays for itself. A cornerstone of homesteading is finding ways to create value from your home no matter if you have 20 acres and a flock of sheep or if you live on a small urban lot or apartment, there are ways to glean value from your home.
But today, we have a different perspective. Remember how I said it is the many small choices you make each day that matter much more than the ones that seem huge?
>Roaster story vs. spending an extra hour each day communicating about what Holler Roast has to offer for the holidays
>Building a root cellar vs making your meal plan each day or week BEFORE you are hungry
Which brings me to today’s true purpose: Your home provides a solid foundation for your success when done right, and it can hinder your progress if done poorly. #funfacts
Look at power couples: often one addresses the domestic foundation either through personal attention or outsourcing so that the other is freed to focus on financial success – but both are successful at what they do.
Each day, we need some things to happen and this list can be different for everyone, but there are themes:
- Proper sleep and activity
- Nutritious food and hydration
- Clean clothing, grooming, etc
- Systems for finding information, managing things that happen
And for the solopreneur: Uninterrupted time to accomplish important tasks (I would say this is necessary for everyone, really) which means nOt hAvinG tO Put oUt fYres aLL tHe thYme.)
Why I am thinking about this topic:
- I had things set pretty much
Why is this a thing?
- CEO Story: Leaving on trips to close deals – the extreme example
- Home chef for Scott – the intermediate example
- Your domestic situation vastly impacts your day. It sets wether you are tired, healthy, put together, worried and so much more – so while it may seem counter intuitive, puttin attention to your home and how it supports your priorities is rarely discussed but very important.
SOE Land: the brilliance of the Employee Lunch
Thoughts on a MESSY vs a CLEANY and how to transform your home into something that works for you (Choose standards you are OK with vs museum standards – or embrace your museumness)
Things you can do to address this – my initial list while I put my life back together
- Follow One Course Until Successful
- Bill and filing system
- Laundry mountain
- The one messy room
- Backlog balance
- Remember to eat on plan
- Etc
- Journaling to identify what is most important – it may be personal habits, it may be a spatial issue
- You make space for what is important to you – are you making space for success or failure
- Phone a friend
>Land on something that includes OMG THE CLUTTER
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Make it a great week!
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