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How to Choose Your Building Lot

You know the saying "Location, location, location!” Well, in fact there's a lot more to look at when purchasing land for your new home. How on earth are you to determine if one patch of trees is...

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Beer Olympics: A Grown-up Beer Tasting Game

What do you do on rainy days or in cooler weather at the cottage? You bring your games inside of course! That’s exactly what we did last fall when we had the sister & brother-in-law up one evening...

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How to Sell Your Cottage

How is selling a cottage different from selling a house? You can read my post that goes into more depth about the differences between a cottage and a house. Knowing that, it makes sense that there...

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Should We Renovate the Cottage or Build New For Retirement?

Time ticks on and we’re inching closer to retirement. The conversations about where we’re going to live and how we’re going to fund any projects to do that became more frequent. Here's how we...

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link to The Unscented Company – Clean Doesn’t Have To Smell

The Unscented Company – Clean Doesn’t Have To Smell

I can’t really recall if I was looking for an ingredient for a DIY body product or for an exciting new baking ingredient. What I stumbled upon though has left me with a major crush on The Unscented...

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3 Eco-Friendly Household Cleaning Products That Will Save You Time & Money

I could go into a great big story about all the money I’ve spent trying to avoid the grocery store cleaning aisle chemicals and even on the ineffective DIY concoctions but I won’t – this time....

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Who is The Cottage Wife?

Hi! I'm Carol - The Cottage Wife. My husband Brian and I had a cottage on the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario, Canada for over 10 years. It turns out that we love the area so much we've built our forever (retirement) home here. I thought it would be fun to share some of our adventures with you. One of the things we really want to focus on is making as light an impact on the land as we can, while still living a modern life. We'll see how that goes!

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