Meet The Frugalwoods: Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living

  • Autor: Elizabeth Willard Thames
  • Narrador: Ann Marie Gideon
  • Editora: HarperCollins USA
  • Duração: 5:40:24
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Sinopse

The deeply personal story of why award-winning personal finance blogger Elizabeth Willard Thames abandoned a successful career in the city and embraced extreme frugality in order to create a more meaningful, purpose-driven life and retire to a homestead in the woods at age thirty-two with her husband and daughter.

In 2014, Elizabeth and Nate Thames were conventional 9-5 young urban professionals. But the couple had a dream to become modern-day homesteaders in rural Vermont. Determined to retire as early as possible in order to start living each day—as opposed to wishing time away working for the weekends—they 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 sixty-six-acre homestead in the woods of rural Vermont with their young daughter. While frugality makes their lifestyle possible, it’s also what brings them peace and genuine happiness. They don’t 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 self-confidence and liberation that stems from disavowing our culture’s promise that we can buy our way to "the good life." Elizabeth unlocked the freedom of a life no longer beholden to the clarion call to consume ever-more products at ever-higher sums.

Meet the Frugalwoods is the intriguing story of how Elizabeth and Nate realized that the mainstream path wasn’t for them, crafted a lifestyle of sustainable frugality, and reached financial independence at age thirty-two. While not everyone wants to live in the woods, or quit their jobs, many of us want to have more control over our time and money and lead more meaningful, simplified lives. Following their advice, you too can live your best life.

Capítulos

  • 001 Meet the Frugalwoods

    Duração: 14s
  • 002 Introduction

    Duração: 09min
  • 003 Chapter 01

    Duração: 19min
  • 004 Chapter 02

    Duração: 28min
  • 005 Chapter 03

    Duração: 30min
  • 006 Chapter 04

    Duração: 15min
  • 007 Chapter 05

    Duração: 21min
  • 008 Chapter 06

    Duração: 11min
  • 009 Chapter 07

    Duração: 35min
  • 010 Chapter 08

    Duração: 20min
  • 011 Chapter 09

    Duração: 16min
  • 012 Chapter 10

    Duração: 22min
  • 013 Chapter 11

    Duração: 21min
  • 014 Chapter 12

    Duração: 18min
  • 015 Chapter 13

    Duração: 15min
  • 016 Chapter 14

    Duração: 19min
  • 017 Chapter 15

    Duração: 20min
  • 018 Chapter 16

    Duração: 12min
  • 019 Credits

    Duração: 31s