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Meet the Frugalwoods, achieving financial independence through simple living, Elizabeth Willard Thames

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Meet the Frugalwoods

Elizabeth Willard Thames

achieving financial independence through simple living

The deeply personal story of how award-winning personal finance blogger Elizabeth Willard Thames abandoned a successful career in the city and embraced frugality to create a more meaningful, purpose-driven life, and retire to a homestead in the Vermont 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. 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

Machine generated contents note: 1.College Grad Seeks Meaningful, Gainful Employment. Fails -- 2.My Year of Food Stamps and Billionaires -- 3.The Tumblers of Adulthood -- 4.A Different Kind of Grindstone -- 5.That One Time We Bought a House -- 6.Our Watershed Coffee Shop Conversation: A Dream Is Hatched -- 7.Our First Month of Extreme Frugality -- 8.Less Makeup, More Confidence -- 9.What Is Financial Independence Anyway? -- 10.Turns Out, Frugality Is About More Than Money. Much More -- 11.Fighting Back Against the Baby-Industrial Complex -- 12.That One Time We Bought a Homestead -- 13.Birth: Something That Never Goes According to Plan -- 14.The Busiest Four Months of Our Lives -- 15.Our Third Way -- 16.Smoothing Out the Happiness Curve

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