How to survive without a salary
by Charles Long · first published 1981
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There's a book called "How to survive without a salary" by Charles Long. It may be out of print, but I would recommend you read that. There's also a series of books called "The Tightwad Gazette" with a similar theme of learning to spend less. Successfully…
on “Ask HN: I have $1M cash in my bank. How can I stretch it so I can retire?” ↗…than in the past and cars are typically the second largest expense in a household budget and they've gotten crazy expensive as well. Having said that, I will recommend the (possibly out of print) book How to survive without a salary by Charles Long in support of your crazy plan. ;) * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy
on “Experts once predicted that Americans would face excess leisure time (2015)” ↗If I have to pick just one, it would be "How to survive without a salary" by Charles Long. In short, it helped me escape the American Rat Race. Most of my life, I was middle class, but I side stepped the typical thing of running faster to stay in place. The poverty I have…
on “Ask HN: What book impacted your life the most and how?” ↗…Homemaking isn't exactly a profession that gets a lot of respect or pays particularly well and the retirement plan tends to suck. I have been doing freelance work in recent years. I will recommend the book "How to survive without a salary" by Charles Long. If you can pay off all your debts, pay cash for a cheap house somewhere with low taxes, raise a garden, etc, you can get off the hamster wheel and do as you choose to a large degree.…
on “Ask HN: What to do if you hate working for someone else and arent an entrepreneur?” ↗My favorite book of this ilk is "How to survive without a salary" by Charles Long. For understanding where the money goes, tracking every penny for 30 days is a good exercise.
on “Tech workers who are engineering a mid-30s retirement” ↗Read "How to survive without a salary" by Charles Long. Join some of the FIRE (financial independence, retire early) reddits. Look into arranging the kind of life you want/need.
on “Ask HN: I simply hate working. What do I do?” ↗creditors call ... on a schedule I personally would consider "aggressive". Let me suggest you go to a library and pick up a copy of "How to get out of debt, stay out of debt, and live prosperously." Also "How to survive without a salary" is an excellent book. You might also enjoy reading this: http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2014/02/money-and-ma... Best of luck.
on “Ask HN: How to value small side projects? Can you sell them?” ↗…are actually loads of people who report otherwise. There are myriad books by people who chose to walk away from the rat race and report gleefully that life is better now because they made that choice. "How to survive without a salary" by Charles Long is one such book. He paid cash for a house in the country so he could grow his own food and have low taxes and damn little need for actual cash. There are many such stories. That doesn't…
on “Emotional debt in startups” ↗…maybe not that particular tie.) Of course, this is style obsolescence, a variant of planned obsolescence, and its a big driver of product sales in our culture." I am humorously reminded of a passage in "How to Survive Without a Salary" where Charles Long talks about wearing the same wool winter coat for many years. Every few years, he would get complimented on his wonderful coat. On the years in between, he was plied with lots of…
on “The Width of Men’s Ties and Waste in IT” ↗