The deeply personal story of why awardwinning personal finance blogger Elizabeth Willard Thames abandoned a successful career in the city and embraced extreme frugality in order to create a more meaningful, purposedriven life and retire to a homestead in the woods at age thirtytwo with her husband and daughter.In 2014, Elizabeth and Nate Thames were conventional 95 young urban professionals. But the couple had a dream to become modernday homesteaders in rural Vermont. Determined to retire as early as possible in order to start living each dayas opposed to wishing time away working for the weekendsthey enacted a plan to save an enormous amount of money well over seventy percent of their joint take home pay. Dubbing themselves the Frugalwoods, Elizabeth began documenting their unconventional frugality and the resulting wholesale lifestyle transformation on their eponymous blog.In less than three years, Elizabeth and Nate reached their goal. Today, they are financially independent and living out their dream on a sixtysixacre homestead in the woods of rural Vermont with their young daughter. While frugality makes their lifestyle possible, its also what brings them peace and genuine happiness. They dont stress out about impressing people with their material possessions, buying the latest gadgets, or keeping up with any Joneses. In the process, Elizabeth discovered the selfconfidence and liberation that stems from disavowing our cultures promise that we can buy our way to "the...

Binding: Paperback;256 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; Classification: BM; Weight: 312 g; Dimensions: 137 x 203 x 14

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