Meet the Frugalwoods : achieving financial independence through simple living
by Thames, Elizabeth Willard (Author)
Summary
"In 2014, Liz Thames and her husband, Nate, were conventional young urban professionals working nine-to-five jobs. But the rat race had worn them down, and they dreamed of becoming modern-day homesteaders in rural Vermont. Determined to retire as early as possible in order to start living each day--... Full description
- College grad seeks meaningful, gainful employment, fails
- My year of food stamps and billionaires
- The tumblers of adulthood
- A different kind of grindstone
- That one time we bought a house
- Our watershed coffee shop conversation: a dream is hatched
- Our first month of extreme frugality
- Less makeup, more confidence
- What is financial independence anyway?
- Turns out, frugality is about more than money. Much more.
- Fighting back against the baby-industrial complex
- That one time we bought a homestead
- Birth: something that never goes according to plan
- The busiest four months of our lives
- Our third way
- Smoothing out the happiness curve.