Getting a Life is a web site maintained by David Heitmiller and Jacqueline Blix, authors of Getting a Life: Strategies For Simple Living Based On The Revolutionary Program For Financial Freedom, Your Money Or Your Life. It includes essays on simplicity and sustainability, news and information on their work, and book reviews.

Consumer Credit Counseling Service (CCCS) is a nonprofit organization that offers educational and planning services to people who are struggling with debt. Member agencies are credited by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling. You can obtain confidential counseling online, via the telephone, or from one of its 1,300 community-based offices.

The New Road Map Foundation is a not-for-profit, all volunteer organization that provides numerous resources, including books, audio tapes, study guides and pamphlets, relating to financial integrity, simple living, and preserving the earth's resources.

The Dollar Stretcher features a free, weekly email newsletter packed with useful articles on living simply and frugally. The web site includes archives of past articles.

Frugal Fun offers articles to help you save you money and enjoy more of life at less cost. Also includes articles on building a business on a budget.

The Frugal Life offers a free email newsletter and a community forum in which people can ask questions and share their experiences of living simply and frugally.

A Frugal, Simple Life is a web site maintained by Deborah Taylor-Hough, author of Frozen Assets and A Simple Choice. In addition to many frugal living tips on the web site, Deborah publishes a free email newsletter, Simple Times.

Cheap Talk with the Frugal Friends: Over 600 Tips, Tricks, and Creative Ideas for Saving Money by Angie Zalewski and Deana Ricks (Lancaster, PA: Starburst Publishers, 2001). Includes money-saving tips in areas of groceries, recycling, garage sales, sports, children, pets, travel, entertaining, gifts, clothes and beauty, automobiles, and more.

The Complete Tightwad Gazette: Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle by Amy Dacyczn (New York: Random House, 1999). Consolidates material from the author's former newsletter and books. Includes detailed, practical, and thoroughly researched ideas for ways to live frugally.

Getting a Life: Strategies for Simple Living Based on the Revolutionary Program for Financial Freedom from Your Money or Your Life by Jacqueline Blix and David Heitmiller (New York: Viking Penguin, Revised 1999). Features detailed life stories of people who have used the nine-step program in Your Money or Your Life to live with greater financial intelligence, financial integrity, and in some cases, financial independence.

The Golden Ghetto: The Psychology of Affluence by Jessie O'Neill (Milwaukee, WI: The Affluenza Project, 1997). Psychotherapist who grew up with wealth explores the challenging and potentially dysfunctional aspects of living with wealth. Provides an inside view of the myths that more is better and that wealth brings happiness.

How to Survive Without a Salary: Learning to Live the Conserver Lifestyle by Charles Long (Toronto: Warwick Publishing, Revised 1996). Discusses the conserver lifestyle - reducing expenses, saving, and earning casual income. Promotes value of earning casual income rather than work in a salaried job.

Miserly Moms: Living on One Income in a Two-Income Economy by Jonni McCoy (Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House, 3rd edition, 2001). Practical guide by stay-at-home mom on how to reduce family living expenses. Emphasis on food costs, planning, and recipes.

Shattering the Two-Income Myth: Daily Secrets for Living Well on One Income by Andy Dappen (Mountlake Terrace, WA: Brier Books, 1997). Thoughtful summary of why and how we evolved into a two-income society, as well as practical advice on how to live on one income.

Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: Errant Economists, Shameful Spenders, and a Plan to Stop Them All by Brian Czech (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). Challenges North America's love affair with economic growth. Offers a thorough yet accessible review of economic theory, including the traditional theory of neoclassical economics and the new paradigm of ecological economics. Proposes a steady state economy as an alternative to unlimited growth.

Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin (New York: Penguin Books, Revised 1999). Bestselling classic of the voluntary simplicity movement. Presents a nine-step program to reach financial independence. Discusses how to live a high quality of life with fewer materialistic trappings and help save the earth at the same time.

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