Subtitle: Exploring Extreme Frugality. Zero Cost Living (ZCL)takes frugality to the extreme making ordinary frugality seem like extravagance. ZCL shows you how you can: <br>- live in seeming poverty with ease and comfort.<br>- live for months years or a lifetime while spending little or no money - without becomng an ascetic monk, welfare case, or refugee in the widerness,<br>- achieve economic independence without having a fortune.<br>- live without runnning up debt, taking advantage of others, wasting natural resources or ruining our abused environment.<br>- cushion and insulate your life from the economic chaos that the national and global economy has unleashed.<br>- build your own 'personal economy', your 'P.E.' - analogous to the way your personal computer, your 'P.C.' evolved from mainframe computers.<br> ZCL guides you to a different path, a 'road not taken' taking you in steps from homeless destitution to homesteading or seasteading to comfortable living.<br> Zero Cost Living is a general guide to the individual topics explored in the book - pointing the reader to over a hundred books and web sites that fill in the details.