Frugal Living Made Easy

It's Time for a Frugal Pursuit of Happiness on YOUR Terms

This thrifty know-how and the resultant empowerment to prudently manage time, money, energy, health, space, and waste - is the surest enabler in an effective "pursuit of happiness" which often ultimately ends in financial independance and growing felicity (ease of happiness).

Hence, the name of this website...

"Frugal Living" + "Felicity" = "Frugalicity"

But living a life of frugality is also the most practical manifestation of imagination, self-sufficiency, ingenuity, and time-tested wisdom. So herein you will find much pertaining to those topics as well.

Unfortunately, frugality has become largely a lost art form in today's industrialized cultures.

The idea of achieving financial independance by living frugally has been steadily marketed away over the last several decades in a billion commercials aimed at "raising our standard of living" and "stimulating discretionary spending".

Brainwashed daily by a barage of subliminal advertising (both cutural and electronic) and awash in a plethora of "cheap money" made liberally available to finance the orgy of consumerism, many are doomed to live out their entire lives like hampsters going nowhere on the debt-to-income treadmill.

For many, the "American Dream" has been clandestinely transposed into the American Nightmare.

Millions of Americans now have no hope of ever achieving a comfortable retirement (or retirement at all for that matter).

But no matter where you are on the Social Security Administration's "earning years" timeline, hope still springs eternal for most.

Yes, no matter what your FICO score, you too may one day be loaned (thanks to "mortgage backed securities" and "collaterallized debt obligations") the "freedom" to finance the construction of an obscenely over-built house which runneth over with extraneously mindless "stuff".

The Jones next door will surely be green with envy.

So much for "tiny boxes".

But minds and times they are a changin' and the answer is blowing in the wind. Savings is on the rise and people are escaping from this present and future mess by remembering and learning from the past.

As such, Frugalicity.com intends to be your time machine to the good old days when simple living was the norm.

We'll travel back in time and resurrect a great deal of time-tested good old-fashioned wisdom from bygone eras - when "disposable items" and "disposable incomes" were concepts and terms completely non-existent in society's lexicon.

It's a journey worth taking, for there is pride and independance to be reaped from "the fat of the land", and indeed opportunity often shakes the callused hand.

So let's take a leisurely stroll down that old country road less traveled. By so doing we'll break forever free of the herd mentalities which drive the masses toward conspicuous consumption and lifelong debt.

Once it is understood that materialism and status symbols do not confer happiness and that keeping up with the Joneses is a losing game, more and more people come to yearn for a simpler life and dream about escaping from the rat race.

I'd like to congratulate you for your initiative and welcome you to Frugalicity.com. We will definately make your visit worth your while.

As you probably already know, leaving the herd definately has its benefits and pays lifelong dividends. In that regard, our time-tested, budget saving, and good old-fashioned secrets and tips to frugal living will go far in making your life even easier and more fullfilling.

For those like you who have ever come to the realization that, "there has to be a better way", we created this site to share with you thousands of frugal tips guaranteed to easily save time, money, energy, health, and space.

Consider this website a one-stop-shop for the nuts and bolts wisdom needed for your frugal pursuit of happiness made easy. We hope you will check back often and maybe even share some tips of your own.

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But BEWARE...Twitter can be very addictive, especially once you realize how much money you can save with all the thrifty wisdom being shared by us frugal-minded Twitterers.