This week I picked up a couple of new books at the library because we are kicking the credit card habit and living within our means and our means are pretty small. One income and seven people is a practice in severe dollar stretching. Yet, it can be done because we are doing it!
The first pick is Making It: Radical Home Ec. For A Post-Consumer World by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen. The book is divided up into sections; daily needs, weekly needs, monthly needs , seasonal needs and infrastructure (solar cookers, dry toliets, honey extractors). I'm hoping to find ways to reduce expenditures and if an alternative to shampoo does the job then I'm sold.
My next pick is The Key: How To Write Da** Good Fiction Using The Power Of Myth by James N. Frey. As we need money, I need to start producing writing that provides income. My first love is fiction so why not harness the power of myth in my novel?
My third pick is a book I already own. The 2013 Writer's Market Guide. I am using it to find and enter writing contests and to get my articles, poetry and short stories to the right people and hopefully published.
Of course my writing has to come after everything and everyone else on the homestead so it is a challenge. But of course, one I welcome. Why not throw one more plate up in the air.
On an ending note... my daughter found out that it costs $175 to participate in our local Homeschool Performing Arts play this year. Our funds are too tight to contribute to this but she has started a fundraising campaign using Go Fund Me. If you feel led to help her out you can go here and contribute. Every dollar helps.
Have an awesome day!
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