Live Small and Prosper Part 1: Living on less has its rewards

“Times are tough, but could the new frugality make us healthier and happier than we’ve been in years?” [MacLean’s magazine]

Good question. According to the article, Kelly Hollingsworth would say “Yes”.

Kelly had it all. She pulled down a handsome salary managing a hedge fund and “lived a life of excess seemingly ripped from the script for Sex and the City” in the US Virgin Islands and then New York City.

In 2006 she lost her job and moved back to her hometown in Idaho where her rich, hectic way of life was reversed.

“But as Hollingsworth adjusted to her new, slower lifestyle, she began to appreciate its subtler pleasures. Such as time.”

Kelly says, “You start connecting to the basic things we all find pleasure in, like making homemade soup.”


[A book review by the bookworm]

With more time on her hands she wrote her first book, Soup in the City [link to Chapter 1, book reviews, more], a call for happy, frugal living.

The economic crisis will produce thousands of large and small success stories, as people come unglued from the market first economy and begin to live in a more sustainable and enjoyable manner.

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What have you heard or read that relates to ‘there is success after excess’?

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