I just published this tonight. It is available in ebook now and paperback by tomorrow. It is a frugal lifestyle book, my favorite to write.

It’s about our life and how we manage to live on the husbands minimum wage salary and my small royalties from the books I have published, raise two boys, a small dog and own a 123 year old house. Minimum wage in California is high, but so is everything else here: groceries, gas, and taxes. Us Californian’s usually pay more in everything than other states. Except the East Coast.

Frugality is a way of life and it is adopted to raise the quality of a persons life or family’s life. It should never be an obsession or lead to poverty consciousness. It shouldn’t be a way to live cheap and opressed, denying the joys of life. It is a way to get out of debt, pay off a mortgage, and then go on and live life, have experiences, travel, pay for college. Frugality helps us pay bills easily and sleep well at night.

So many talk about struggling right now and I have no doubt they are, but is there a way to live without the struggle? Without suffering when a recession hits. Without going crazy with coupons or prepping.

We live well despite our small income and there is no magic formula. It is in how we eat, how we drive and what we drive, how we shop, how we live day to day, even how we think.

I share my life and home through this book and I’m a little proud of myself right this moment as I added photos to this book. I know they showed up in the paperback, I’m too afraid to look at the ebook just yet.

If you decide to check it out, I hope it is of comfort, cozy and inspiring.