On this week's episode of Rural Reliance, Aaron and Julia share how they handled their 2024 goals and how they are approaching 2025 differently. With a laser focus and determination, you can reach your homestead or frugal objectives as well.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Visit us at https://linktr.ee/thecannycouple or email us with questions/suggestions at [email protected]

The Canny Couple

PO Box 464

Duffield, VA 24244

Trends come and go, but traditional homesteading is here to stay. In today's episode, Aaron and Julia share what they do a bit differently on their homestead and how it works best for their family.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Visit us at https://linktr.ee/thecannycouple or email us with questions/suggestions at [email protected]

The Canny Couple

PO Box 464

Duffield, VA 24244

Did you meet your financial goals for November? Today, Aaron and Julia share what went right and wrong with their November budget and how they go into the winter months with a clear financial plan.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Visit us at https://linktr.ee/thecannycouple or email us with questions/suggestions at [email protected]

The Canny Couple

PO Box 464

Duffield, VA 24244

As a mom and perfectionist, Julia understands that feeling of wanting to control as much around her day to day life as possible. But this is an unrealistic and unreasonable expectation we put on ourselves. Today, she shares her strategies to embrace and handle the chaos that comes with life.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Visit us at https://linktr.ee/thecannycouple or email us with questions/suggestions at [email protected]

The Canny Couple

PO Box 464

Duffield, VA 24244

Frugality is about more than saving money, it is also about spending money on the items or experiences that bring you joy. Julia shares her own personal struggles with how she handles spending money on larger purchases without feeling regrets afterward.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Visit us at https://linktr.ee/thecannycouple or email us with questions/suggestions at [email protected]

The Canny Couple

PO Box 464

Duffield, VA 24244

Aaron and Julia have shared how they have grown in their frugal homesteading journey over the years. Today, they discuss how to really merge homesteading and frugality to build an effective homestead with cost efficiencies in mind.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Visit us at https://linktr.ee/thecannycouple or email us with questions/suggestions at [email protected]

The Canny Couple

PO Box 464

Duffield, VA 24244

The holiday season is busy and expensive enough without adding decorations to your growing list of purchases. Today, Julia shares her top tip, and a little hard love, on how she saves the most money when creating a holiday atmosphere in her home.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Visit us at https://linktr.ee/thecannycouple or email us with questions/suggestions at [email protected]

The Canny Couple

PO Box 464

Duffield, VA 24244

Dreams and goals on the homestead, or in life, can get expensive if you are not looking at the complete picture. Today, Aaron and Julia discuss what they do when they are looking to make a change or addition to their growing homestead to ensure that it is a good fit and that it actually makes financial sense.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Visit us at https://linktr.ee/thecannycouple or email us with questions/suggestions at [email protected]

The Canny Couple

PO Box 464

Duffield, VA 24244

The days for big deals are almost upon us and if you are not careful, you can end up spending way more than you anticipated. On this week's episode of Rural Reliance, Aaron and Julia share their tried and true tips for maximizing their savings for shopping these big deal days.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Visit us at https://linktr.ee/thecannycouple or email us with questions/suggestions at [email protected]

The Canny Couple

PO Box 464

Duffield, VA 24244

Everyone's homestead dream is a little bit different, and Julia is no exception to that rule. On this week's episode, she discusses what she wants from her homestead journey and how she hopes to get there.

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The Canny Couple is a small homestead family in rural Southwest Virginia. We work every day on being more self-reliant by living a frugal homestead lifestyle. We live a simple, debt-free life. We hope to achieve our goal of self-sufficiency by reducing our costs, merging frugality, homesteading, traditional skills, and modern enhancements into our everyday life.

We hope you will join us as we continue to forge our homestead, where we work hard, live simple and enjoy life.

Visit us at https://linktr.ee/thecannycouple or email us with questions/suggestions at [email protected]

The Canny Couple

PO Box 464

Duffield, VA 24244