Review: Wear it out, use it up,make it do, do without.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 2, 2014
explains why frugality, the antithesis of our consumer spending supported economy, is healthier for our nation in a less is better way.  less footprint on the environment, less use of nonrenewable resources,  less deficit in the balance of payments, etc.  Put into action, the information in the book, will help us organize what the great recession taught us.  the audience is thoughtful people who want to live more frugally and people who must live more frugally.  Madison Avenue advertising agencies would do well to understand what I hope is a ground swell of restraint in personal spending.  Forty years ago, Dubois and Montague and others, pointed out that per capita income and benefits from spending that income are not in a linear relationship after $500 (1960 dollares) and the benefit of spending more and more becomes negative to one/s welfare at $1500 (1960 dollars)  The author's thesis of living on $8000 a year is a restatement of that research.