Submitted by: RJ
Thrift vs. Greed – just some thoughts…
Thrift conserves for the future.
Greed acquires for the profit.
Thrift makes things.
Greed takes things. Continue reading
Posted in frugal living, voluntary simplicity
Feel like you’re trying to dig out from under a mountain of debt without a shovel? Tired of working your tail off just to break even? Is the high cost of living taking all the joy out of life? Unless you’re one of the top two percent of wealthiest Americans, all of the above should sound painfully familiar.
While they’re trying to decide between the ski lodge in Telluride and the Tuscan villa, for the rest of us, it’s an endless litany of corporate lay-offs, stagnant wages, crushing credit card debt, skyrocketing medical costs, exorbitant utility bills, the high cost of higher education…. And they call this “the good life.”
Is there a better way to live? Continue reading
Posted in books, frugal living, voluntary simplicity
A Simple Choice: A practical guide for saving your time, money and sanity
by Deborah Taylor-Hough
This book of mine was written more than 10 years ago but is just as timely now with the current economic situation.
Prior to writing A Simple Choice, I spent nearly a year interviewing real people about what living simply meant to them and how they were practically applying simple living principles to their lives. So not only was this book written from my own experiences, it was also borne from the experiences and insights of 100+ others. Continue reading
“Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits.” –Burke
Definitions
If I want to know what a word means, I usually run to my dictionary or do a quick search online. Keeping true to my normal mode of operation, here’s what I found in my first search for the meaning of “frugality.” According to Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) , frugality is “the quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; — opposed to extravagance.” Continue reading
With the holidays right around the corner, we often hear the familiar refrains of our favorite Christmas carols and seasonal music. But too many of us tend to sing different words to the familiar tune of Jingle Bells: Continue reading
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