Recommend an Old Style Book?

Bambywamby

I have The Readers Digest Good House Keeping Book from the late 1980s. The money section is out of date but the OS housekeeping, cooking, cleaning, making gifts etc is fabulous.

competitionscafe

Just a note that the Book People have 'The New Complete Book Of Self-Sufficiency' by John Seymour for £6.99 (rrp:£20) and if you search mse you will also find a free delivery code.

https://www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10051&storeId=10001&productId=45584&langId=100&fromPage=associated&purchaseLocation=AssociatedItemPurchase_ESpot%2FEmail_OriginalItem_46537&categoryId=&parent_category_rn=

They also have 'Falling Cloudberries' reduced to £7.99 (rrp:£25) which is a fantastic book and would make a great gift too, plus they have 'The Organic Meat Cookbook' for £4.99 which I haven't read but looks interesting.

https://www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/paperCatalogPage_10001_10051_100_25001_35531_37
https://www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=100&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&productId=46537

Gryfon

Also there's a deal here at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/More-less-Doris-Janzen-Longacre/dp/083619103X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b/202-3825701-3983069

Shouldn't really look as I'm a sucker for books and can't afford them!

Peem

Ohhhh Gryfon!

you really shouldn't have!

Can you hear them dropping into my shopping basket?

Austin_Allegro

I'll second 'How to Survive Without A Salary' by Charles Long.

It's all about being a 'conserver' rather than a 'consumer'.

The basic idea is that by living frugally you can afford to give up full time work and earn a living by casual work. It is not so much frugal hints and tips, it is more anecdotes and theories on how to consume less. Some of the stories are very funny, such as when he decided to save money by washing in a thunderstorm and got struck by lightning...

Mr Long is a bit more tongue-in-cheek about the whole thing than Mrs Dacyzyn (author of the Tightwad Gazette). Unlike the Gazette, the book doesn't assume we all live in country houses in Maine!

However, it is a Canadian book and I get the impression that the frugal life is a lot easier in the US/Canada where the cost of living is much cheaper than 'rip off Britain'. One of the central premises ,for example, is that one should own one's own home outright before giving up one's salary - well that's me and most people in Britain stuffed for a start then! :rotfl:

Gryfon

Peem wrote:

Ohhhh Gryfon!

you really shouldn't have!

Can you hear them dropping into my shopping basket?

Enjoy them for me!!!

Peem

'S okay

I resisted.

Get thee behind me cookery books and amazon.;)

But I have taken Squeaky up on the Bero baking book.

thriftlady_2

Has anyone else read this one ?http://www.amazon.co.uk/Self-Reliance-Recipe-New-Millennium/dp/1856230155/sr=8-1/qid=1162836719/ref=sr_1_1/202-4560088-2422211?ie=UTF8&s=books

It's quite extreme but a really interesting read;)

hornetgirl

For a more literary but inspirational read, Walden by Henry David Thoreau also deserves a place on the OS reading list.

thriftlady_2

hornetgirl wrote:

For a more literary but inspirational read, Walden by Henry David Thoreau also deserves a place on the OS reading list.

Oh, yes that's one I've been meaning to read for ages. There's also the book by US homesteaders Scott and Helen Nearing
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Life-Nearings-Self-Sufficient-Living/dp/0805209700/sr=1-1/qid=1162838083/ref=sr_1_1/202-4560088-2422211?ie=UTF8&s=books