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Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared on Living on the Cheap. When I think of the word “simplify,” I am reminded of Henry David Thoreau’s famous directive to “Simplify, simplify!” Thoreau carried his belief in simplifying to what most of us would consider an extreme in today’s world. He chose to live alone in a cabin in the woods, off the grid (not that there was much of a grid back in…