Meet the Frugalwoods: Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living Audiobook (Free)

The deeply personal story of how award-winning personal finance blogger Elizabeth Willard Thames abandoned an effective career in the city and embraced frugality to create a even more meaningful, purpose-driven existence, and retire to a homestead in the Vermont woods at age thirty-two with her hubby and daughter.

In 2014, Elizabeth and Nate Thames were conventional 9-5 young urban professionals. But the couple had a desire to be modern-day homesteaders in rural Vermont. Determined to retire as about Meet up with the Frugalwoods: Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living early as it can be in order to start living each day-as opposed to wishing time apart doing work for the weekends-they enacted an idea to save an enormous sum of money: more than seventy percent of their joint take home pay out. Dubbing themselves the Frugalwoods, Elizabeth started documenting their unconventional frugality and the resulting wholesale lifestyle change on the eponymous blog.

In under 3 years, Elizabeth and Nate reached their goal. Today, they are financially 3rd party and living out their dream on the sixty-six-acre homestead in the woods of rural Vermont with their young little girl. While frugality makes their lifestyle possible, it’s also what brings them peacefulness and genuine pleasure. They don’t tension out about impressing people with their material possessions, buying the latest gadgets, or keeping up with any Joneses. Along the way, Elizabeth uncovered the self-confidence and liberation that stems from disavowing our culture’s guarantee that we can buy our way to ‘the great lifestyle.’ Elizabeth unlocked the freedom of a life no more beholden to the clarion call to take ever-more products at ever-higher amounts.

Meet the Frugalwoods may be 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 stop their jobs, many of us want to have even more control over our money and time and lead even more significant, simplified lives. Pursuing their assistance, you too can live your very best life.