Frugal Luxuries Simple Pleasures to Enhance Your Life and Comfort Your Soul [Paperback]

Tracey McBride created the newsletterFrugal Timesin 1993 and has since delighted thousands by elevating the skill of living frugally to an art form.  Now Tracey's commonsense techniques for making "every day a feast" and her wisdom on how to cultivate abundance are gathered in one volume.

Tracey shows us how to savor the intangible gifts we receive when we create a nurturing home, share luscious yet low-cost meals with family and friends, master our budgets, learn to combine style and thriftiness, and cultivate our dreams and imaginations without spending a cent.

Filled with ingenious, heartwarming, and practical advice,Frugal Luxurieshelps us remember what is truly of value in our lives--our time, our loved ones, and our inner sense of prosperity.  Combining the spiritual nourishment ofSimple Abundancewith the practicality ofThe Tightwad Gazette, Frugal Luxuriesis destined to become the classic on how to live every day with a sense of abundance, beauty, and luxury.The Luxury of Frugality
"Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be."
--Samuel Johnson

Many people confuse luxury with opulence.  To understand luxury you must look at the true sense of the word.  The American Heritage Dictionary  definesluxuryas "something...conducive to pleasure and comfort," so--to indulge in luxury, you need only to focus on what brings you pleasure and comfort.  Does luxury have to mean diamonds and servants?  Or can it be a plump down comforter on a cold night or a bowl of wild blueberries picked at the peak of that fruit's brief season?  Practicing frugality allows you to organize your life and thinking in such a way as to control your own happiness.  One way this is done is by allowing yourself to delight in ordinary things and occurrences.  

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