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You can download the PDF or read this online. This page gives you all the sections, including the intro about living through the Depression and how people saved.
http://www.couponsherpa.com/eco-frugal-life-guide/chapter/depressionites-the-original-greenies/
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I've heard stories from family too about walking miles and miles just to reach the home of a relative that had food. Count your blessings. :)
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Stories like that make me feel petty when I think about what we complain about. We don't appreciate how well off we are these days. Thanks frazzledmom!
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Stories like that make me feel petty when I think about what we complain about. We don't appreciate how well off we are these days. Thanks frazzledmom!
That is so true, Kay. The kids are even worse than us too. Thanks for the book, frazzledmom.
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Thank you frazzledmom. :) I found it to be a good read from what I've read so far. Although I don't think I'll resort to being a Freegan, ever. I'm content to be frugal.
Just as the name implies, the Freegans like free stuff so much so that they've resolved to opt out of the economy. Embracing radical environmentalism, Freegans are dedicated to anticapitalist, non-consumerism subsistence living. Just how fanatical are they? If they have a choice between paying $2 for a loaf of bread or eating the bakery's leftovers from the trash, they'll gladly dumpster dive. This way of living either grosses you out or excites you, depending on how cheap, er, frugal, you are.
http://www.couponsherpa.com/eco-frugal-life-guide/chapter/our-daily-bread/
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Unless I'm homeless, starving and living on the streets, I have no intentions of dumpster diving. It would need to be a life or death reason, not a lifestyle choice!
My grandma used to use the butter paper to grease a pan. That might have been frugal back then. Today butter's too expensive to do even that! Thank you frazzledmom. :)