Totally Frugal

Totally Frugal

TotallyFrugal.com is a community of like-minded individuals who believe there is more to life than accumulating wealth for the purpose of buying material goods and services. We believe that the main factors that contribute to a happy and successful life are health, family and ecology.  We strive to live debt-free and to make the most of every dollar we spend.

The TotallyFrugal.com community members share their ideas, successes and failures with each other to further our understanding of frugality and simplicity.  Through these experiences we learn and grow in ways that measurably improve our lives.  We hope you will stay around long enough to experience our warmth, strength and knowledge of all topics relating to frugality and simple living.

The Frugal Movement and Voluntary Simplicity

Frugality is often incorrectly likened to cheapness or stinginess.  Frugality is really about using restraint in the acquisition of goods and services, instead focusing on deeper, meaningful goals.  There are many ways to practice frugality from reducing waste, to seeking efficiency, to changing expensive routines.  Sometimes frugality is about not spending money, while other times it's about buying the best quality item available.  Frugality is different for each individual and it's up to you to determine how frugality can improve your life.

Voluntary simplicity or simple living is about simplifying your life by reducing consumption.  It has much in common with frugality and many core concepts are the same.   Practicing simplicity often leads individuals to have to spend less time working and thus have more free time to pursue other areas of interest such as family and art.

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