{"id":82212,"date":"2018-03-08T18:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/extreme-frugality-allowed-me-to-retire-at-32-and-regain-control-of-my-life\/"},"modified":"2018-03-08T19:04:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T12:04:51","slug":"extreme-frugality-allowed-me-to-retire-at-32-and-regain-control-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/extreme-frugality-allowed-me-to-retire-at-32-and-regain-control-of-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme frugality allowed me to retire at 32 \u2013 and regain control of my life"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nElizabeth Willard Thames abandoned a successful career in the city and embraced frugality to create a more meaningful life. It enabled her to retire at 32 with her family to a homestead in the Vermont woodsAs I write this, I\u2019m sitting on the back porch of the rural Vermont homestead I share with my husband and our daughter, gazing out on the 66 acres of forest, fruit trees, gardens, ponds, and streams that we feel incredibly lucky to call our own.Just a few years ago, this seemed like an impossible feat. My husband and I were struggling to conceive a baby and attempting to chart a path out of our frenzied 9-5 grind in urban Cambridge, Massachusetts. We wanted to achieve financial independence, quit the cubicle jobs that made us so unhappy, and create a simpler life of purpose in a rural setting. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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