Saturday, July 23, 2005
Living More With Less
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Tommy and I are, admittedly, avid Tour de France viewers. We are greatly enjoying the final time trial this morning. Lance is a hometown boy for us.
I have dug into a book kindly given to me by a woman at our church. I was complaining about our inability to pay off debt so she brought me "Living More With Less"! I am grateful! We needed the motivation. It is a bit old (1980) but still contains a relevant challenge to live intelligently, respectfully and aware as well as a wealth of practical ideas. The author, Longacre, is a devout Christian and includes many scriptures as reflection upon the material offered. Written by Mennonites, a few of the suggestions are extreme (but creative, like making sandals out of old tires) but many of them are inspiring and useful.
Over the next few days, I will be posting the best ideas and information I find, as a way of both sharing with others and consolidating it for myself before I have to give the book back. I would also be interested in suggestions on similar books which might have more updated information. The author died soon after the book was written, so this particular volume has never been updated.
I have dug into a book kindly given to me by a woman at our church. I was complaining about our inability to pay off debt so she brought me "Living More With Less"! I am grateful! We needed the motivation. It is a bit old (1980) but still contains a relevant challenge to live intelligently, respectfully and aware as well as a wealth of practical ideas. The author, Longacre, is a devout Christian and includes many scriptures as reflection upon the material offered. Written by Mennonites, a few of the suggestions are extreme (but creative, like making sandals out of old tires) but many of them are inspiring and useful.
Over the next few days, I will be posting the best ideas and information I find, as a way of both sharing with others and consolidating it for myself before I have to give the book back. I would also be interested in suggestions on similar books which might have more updated information. The author died soon after the book was written, so this particular volume has never been updated.
3 Comments:
At 7/24/2005 10:08 AM,
Anita said…
My best friend listens to Clark Howard a lot. She is the most frugal and most generous person I know! But, I think it takes a lot of work to live like that. http://clarkhoward.com/ Clark Howard has lots of consumer advice about spending less money. Not in the sense of making your own shoes :) but as in buying 1 or 2 yo used cars is more practical than buying a new car.
Also, we have spent a lot of time looking at budgeting and like Larry Burkett's advice. His ministry is now Crown Financial Ministries. http://www.crown.org/
At 7/24/2005 7:31 PM,
texashimalaya said…
Anita - I love Clark Howard! I actually had a great "clark howard" story the other week. A Kerby salesman came to my house, spent over two hours selling this vacuum (which I really wanted because I know mine doesn't work well) and he wore me down. I knew Tommy wouldn't want me to buy it, but it was such a great vacuum. I signed the paperwork, wrote down my checking number and everything, for an $1800 vacuum! The salesman turned around to do something in his bag, and since I always have the computer up and running on the kitchen table, I quickly went to clarkhoward.com and looked up "Kerby". It said that they are WAY overpriced, by $16000, so I quickly tore up my paperwork and showed the bewildered salesman out the door!
At 7/24/2005 8:38 PM,
Anita said…
Too funny! :)
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