The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide to Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More - Softcover

Raser-Rowland, Annie; Grubb, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0994392818 ISBN 13: 9780994392817

Publisher: Melliodora Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

It sounds too good to be true. You can save money and the world, inoculate yourself against many of the ills of modern life, and enjoy everything more on both the sensual and profound levels? Preposterous!

Yet here is a toolkit to help you do just that. A tweak here, a twiddle there; every strategy in The Art Of Frugal Hedonism has been designed to help you target the most important habits of mind and action needed for living frugally but hedonistically. Apply a couple, and you’ll definitely have a few extra dollars in your pocket and enjoy more sunsets. Apply the lot, and you’ll wake up one day and realise that you’re happier, wealthier, fitter, and more in lust with life than you’d ever thought possible.

About this title

About the Author

Annie Raser-Rowland is a horticulturalist and artist, and works at CERES nursery in Melbourne, giving people advice on how to grow lots of tomatoes. She is the co-author (with Adam Grubb) of The Weed Forager’s Handbook: A Guide to Edible and Medicinal Weeds in Australia (Hyland House, 2012), which has sold over 15,000 copies. Their weekly spending, on everything except housing, is less than a quarter of the Australian average.

Adam Grubb runs an urban permaculture design and education business called Very Edible Gardens, co-hosts RRR radio’s Greening the Apocalypse, and also co-founded EnergyBulletin.net (now Resilience.org) and the Permablitz movement. He is the co-author (with Annie Raser-Rowland) of The Weed Forager’s Handbook: A Guide to Edible and Medicinal Weeds in Australia (Hyland House, 2012).

Review

“Liberate yourself from the work-to-spend cycle and become a frugal hedonist! This is the inspired message in this life-changing gem of a book. In an age that is obsessed with consumer trinkets and oblivious to waste, the philosophy of frugal hedonism provides a welcome and necessary antidote. The simplicity of this message is profound. Be frugal and be free.”--Samuel Alexander, co-director of the Simplicity Institute

“An invaluable harvest of tips oozing with hedonistic wit and wonder. Packed with ideas about why and how we are to live with less to ensure we have a hell of a lot more.”--Meg Ulman, co-author of The Art of Free Travel

“What a terrific idea, a book showing how frugal living can be pleasurable. Not the kind of smug pleasure of the drop-out or the feeling of moral superiority that comes with driving a Prius (yes, that’s me), but real actual sensual pleasure... The free-est and most contented people pretty much follow the advice in The Art of Frugal Hedonism.”--Clive Hamilton, author of Growth Fetish and co-author of Affluenza (from the foreword)

“Total page turner... I just ate it up”--Davina Adamson

Edition details

• Publisher: Melliodora Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0994392818
• ISBN 13: 9780994392817
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256