 |  228779 | Oct 16, 2005 2:26pm | | Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and With (Almost) No Money is an interesting look at a frugal survivalist. I'm certainly not recommending anything this extreme - a little too Sixties gone wild down a dirt path for me. But there are some good ideas. |
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Sponsor |  orderfire | Oct 18, 2005 12:54pm | | Kinda reminds me of the Foxfire books, in the sense that it revives old arts/skills/methods of wringing sustenence from bare earth and teaches how to manage with practically nothing. |
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| | 228779 | Oct 19, 2005 4:29am | | Yeah, it does remind me of those books. In fact, I was going to mention that in my review, but I couldn't quite remember if the title was Foxfire or Firefox or . . . And because I was feeling rather lazy (and then forgot), I didn't mention the series. Thanks for reminding me of the title! |
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Sponsor | | blakelylaw | Oct 24, 2005 6:12pm | | Speaking of - I've been looking for the Foxfire books for some time. Anyone know where I can find them without going the eBay route? |
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| | 228779 | Oct 25, 2005 7:12am | | I assume you want to keep the books, not just read them? I assume you've tried the used bookstore route? |
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Sponsor | | twochris | Nov 6, 2005 4:09pm | This book reminds me of a Canadian book I read a couple of years ago called "Free Parking: A 2nd Look at Financial Planning" by Alan Dickson. I am not sure how useful the book would be to non-Canadians because some of it dealt with RRSP's which are a tax shelter for money that you can put into savings, pay no tax on that income, or tax on the interest saved until you draw from it.
Basically though it showed how much it actually costs to work, and how sometimes earning more money can actually cost you. His whole point was learn how to use the tax system to your advantage and do not work or earn more than you need to. In Canada we have a system of tax credits that are income dependant. If you earn more, you lose this monthly tax credit. Dickson recommends keeping yourself in the lowest tax bracket, pay no tax, and earn the most possible tax credits. Some of it was extreme but it made me think about the whole "you have to pack a million away in investments before you retire to survive" idea that you hear all the time now in investment circles. Of course much of his writing was based on many of the ideas in the Possum Living book. Do we really need all that "stuff" to be happy? |
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