To live more simply is to live more purposefully and with a minimum of needless distractions.

 -Duane Elgin

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Books

• Your Money or Your Life
  By Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin
  New York, Viking, 1992.
• Getting a Life
  By Jacqueline Blix and David Heitmiller
  New York, Viking, 1997
• The Circle of Simplicity
  By Cecil Andrews
  New York, HarperCollins, 1997
• The Simple Living Guide
  By Janet Luhrs
  New York, Broadway Books, 1997
• The Overspent American
  By Juliet Schor
  New York, Basic Books, 1998
• The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
  By Juliet Schor
  New York, HarperCollins, 1992
• The Simple Life
  Edited by Larry Roth
  New York, Berekley Books, 1998
• Simplify Your Life
  By Elaine St. James
  New York, Hyperion, 1994
• Speed Cleaning
  By Jeff Campbell
  New York, Dell Books, 1991
• Living Well on Practically Nothing
  By Edward H. Romney
  Colorado, Paladin Press, 2001
• Rubbish: The Archaeology of Garbage
  By William Rathje and Cullen Murphy
  Arizona, University of Arizona Press, 2001
• Debt Proof Living: The Complete Guide to Living Financially Free
  By Mary Hunt
  Tennessee, Broadman & Holman, 1999
• Simple Living: One Couple's Search for a Better Life
  By Frank Levering and Wanda Urbanska
  New York, Penguin Books, 1992
• Choosing Simplicity: Real People Finding Peace and Fulfillment in a Complex World
  By Linda Breen Pierce
  California, Gallagher Press, 2000
• Simplicity Lessons: A 12-Step Guide to Living Simply
  By Linda Breen Pierce
  California, Gallagher Press, 2003
• A Simple Choice, by Deborah Taylor-Hough (editor, Simple Times Email Newsletter)
  A practical guide to saving your time, money and sanity. Chapters include:  Finding focus for your life, financial health, practical kitchen ideas, simplified housekeeping, family fun, and lots more.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
-W.H. Auden

• The Dollar Stretcher (www.thedollarstretcher.com) - A great all around site and e-mail newsletters with tips on just about everything to do with saving money.
   
• Simple Living (www.simpleliving.com) - What some consider to be the holy text of simple living. Janet Luhrs is one of the frontrunners in the simple living movement. Her site includes simple living tips and information on how you can subscribe to her newsletter Simple Living.
   
• Cheapskate Monthly (www.cheapskatemonthly.com) - Mary Hunt's website and newsletter that shows you step-by-step how to escape from consumer debt. Includes various calculators including the famous Rapid Debt Reducer Calculator, essential for getting out of debt quickly and almost painlessly.
   

• PBS Affluenza Website (www.pbs.org/kcts/affluenza) - PBS's site dedicated to simple living and escaping from the epidemic of Affluenza - or the rampant need to engage in consumerism that leaves one emotionally and spiritually empty.
   

• Budget Stretcher (www.homemoneyhelp.com) - Find everything you need to better manage your money including those hard to find Budget Forms and Worksheets, Free. óHighly recommended site!

• CheapAzz (www.cheapazz.net) - The goal of CheapAzz.net is to network legitimate resources of frugal and smart living into one reliable and easy to use site complete with tips, articles, resources, and forum. óHighly recommended site!

• Deborah Taylor-Hough's Simple Times - (http://hometown.aol.com/dsimple/) - A great website packed with interesting information on simple living, frugality, Family Fun, and Recipes, just to name a few.  You can also subscribe to Deborah's newsletter Simple Times.  óHighly recommended site!
   
• Motley Fool (www.motleyfool.com) - A website to educate, enrich, and amuse individual investors around the world. Also has some great calculators and a great budget download.

• Bankrate.com (www.bankrate.com) - A website that has many useful articles on money, investing, saving, and other tools.  Also offers a Frugal U newsletter.
   

• The Frugal Shopper - (www.thefrugalshopper.com) -
  Make the most of your shopping dollar with frugal and fun ways to save
  money. Get the best deals for the best prices, thrifty living resources,
  and money-saving tips.
  
  

• Budget101.com (www.budget101.com) - Your #1 Penny Pinching Resource- including hundreds of mix recipes, copycat recipes, gift ideas, articles and more for those trying to survive on a budget! Come take a peak today!
   

• The Shoe String.com (www.theshoestring.com) - Tightwads of the world, unite! Unique and interesting website with articles on various areas of frugal living. óHighly recommended site!
  
  
   

• Thrifty Fun (www.thriftyfun.com) - great website loaded with interesting tips and articles on simple and frugal living.
   

• Yard Sale Queen (www.yardsalequeen.com) - unique website devoted to the art and science of yard/garage sailing. Interesting tips and articles for both buyers and sellers.
  
  

• Stressless Country (www.stresslesscountry.com/) - Simplicity - a simple life, a lifestyle change! Our journey to simplicity, a simple life - our learning's, our thoughts, our challenges and our achievements.

• Fru-Gals (www.fru-gals.net) - a fun site aimed at providing support, motivation and inspiration in the fine art of frugal living, saving money, thrift, how to live within a budget, and voluntary simplicity, both for women and men (fru-gals and fru-guys!). 
   

• The Penny-Wise Journal (www.pennywisejournal.com) - a mix of articles, news, blogs, and other great simple and frugal living information. about your typical American family. Mom, dad, three kids, two cats and a mountain of consumer debt. 

Other

• Newport, Kentucky's Hometown USA Community - Community information including population statistics and demographics, businesses, real estate, travel, maps, events, history, trivia, classified ads, forums and more.

A book is a garden, an orchid, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
 -Charles Baudelaire