Bookstore: Simple & Frugal Living

Cheap Talk with the Frugal Friends: Over 600 Tips, Tricks, and Creative Ideas for Saving Money - Angie Zalewski, Deana Ricks.  Ever scratch your head at the end of the month and wonder where all the money went?  Well, move over, Big Spender, you're headed for a "frugal-conversion"!  This book is spreading the message of thrift and  how to s-t-r-e-t-c-h the family dollar!

The Complete Tightwad Gazette: Promoting Thrift As a Viable Alternative Lifestyle - Amy Dacyczyn. Though tightwad seems like a derogatory term, this book wants to assure you that it's okay to be a penny-pincher.  You'll find literally thousands of ideas for saving money, from the simple or practical to the difficult or bizarre.

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Not Just Beans: 50 Years of Frugal Family Favorites - Tawra Jean Kellam, David G. Cooper (Illustrator).  Household cleaners, frugal recipes, homemade crafts, and more! Offers easy, money saving recipes and even some Jar Mix recipes for gift baskets. It is perfect for the cook who has to get good food on the table while staying within a budget.

Baking Soda: Over 500 Fabulous, Fun and Frugal Uses You've Probably Never Thought of  - Vicki Lansky, Martha Campbell (Illustrator). A useful and informative book about the innumerable uses for good old baking soda, saving tons of money, and in the process not harming the environment.

The Frugal Gardener: How to Have More Garden for Less Money - Catriona Tudor Erler.  A fantastic collection of suggestions for economical gardening strategies, covering everything from pruning-shear purchases to making the most of your plants. In this case, "economical" also translates to "environmentally sound," as Erler's recipes for do-it-yourself pest control rely on items like dish soap, garlic, and hot peppers.
 

Pretty for Pennies: Frugal Bath and Beauty Guide - Tawra Jean Kellam.
Pretty for Pennies includes make-it-yourself directions for elegant, all-natural bath and beauty products. This 32 page booklet contains 33 recipes for items like foot massage oil, chocolate lip balm and almond lotion. It also contains 69 frugal tips that you can use.
 

Frugal Families: Making the Most of Your Hard-Earned Money - Jonni McCoy.
Frugal Families packs advice, resources, creative ideas, and encouragement into every chapter so readers can easily find the information that meets their specific needs. Now in its second edition, this book has been rewritten to include new and updated material.

The Simple Living Guide: A Sourcebook for Less Stressful, More Joyful Living - Janet Luhrs.  Whether you are looking at small solutions for cutting down the stress in your life or taking the big leap toward the simpler life, this book can be your guide. It also brings together strategies, inspiration, resources, and real-life profiles of people who have slowed down, overcome obstacles, and created richer lives.

The Joy of Simple Living: Over 1,500 Simple Ways to Make Your Life Easy and Content -- At Home and at Work - Jeffrey P. Davidson.  This book provides more than 1,500 easy, specific tips and techniques for cutting back, paring down, and breathing easier--at home and at work--without sacrificing the quality of life one deserves

Complete Idiot's Guide to Simple Living - Georgene Lockwood.  Be strong and read the Ten Principles of Simple Living, which include Consume less; Love people, not things; Put people before things; and Live from your vision. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Simple Living is about evaluating your consumer-choked life and learning to live happily with what you need--not what you think you need or just plain want.

Living the Simple Life: A Guide to Scaling Down & Enjoying More -  Elaine St. James.  This book fuses both sides of the author's liberating philosophy into a powerful synergy of thought-provoking methods for leading a life of well-being and inner peace through simplicity.

Healthy Living in a Toxic World: Simple Ways to Protect Yourself & Your Family from Hidden Health Risks - Cynthia E. Fincher. Did you know that many of the household products sitting under your kitchen sink can cause headaches, fatigue, memory loss, irritability, depression, insomnia, vision problems, joint pain, nausea, and loss of coordination?  How can you protect yourself?  Find out!

The Busy Mom's Guide to Simple Living:  Creative Ideas And Practical Ways for Making the Most Out of What You Have - Jackie Wellwood. This book offers creative and practical ideas for freeing your time and resources, establishing the priorities God wants you to have, and making more room in your life for what really matters.

Little House on the Freeway  - Tim Kimmel, Gary Smalley.  In a warm and, at times, humorous style the author offers sound, practical counsel on how to restore calmness and rest to marriage, family life, workplace and relationship with God.

Tis a Gift to Be Simple: Embracing the Freedom of Living With Less - Barbara Degrote-Sorensen, David Allen Sorensen.  Suggestions are given for telling the difference between needs and wants, using time and money wisely, relaxing more, enjoying family and friends, eating healthier food, conserving the earth's resources, and sorting through priorities.

Six Weeks to a Simpler Lifestyle  - Barbara Degrote-Sorensen, David Allen Sorensen (Contributor).  Do you feel overworked and overextended? Does your life feel overloaded? Are you tired of being too busy? Six weeks to a Simpler Lifestyle is a practical guide to move you gently but deliberately toward a simpler, more satisfying life.