The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide to Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More by Annie Raser-Rowland
Annie Raser-Rowland . Unknown Year . English
It sounds too good to be true. You can save money and the world, inoculate yourself against many of the ills of modern life, and enjoy everything more on both the sensual and profound levels? Preposterous! Yet here is a toolkit to help you do just that. A tweak here, a twiddle there; every strategy in The Art Of Frugal Hedonism has been designed to help you target the most important habits of mind and action needed for living frugally but hedonistically. Apply a couple, and you’ll definitely have a few extra dollars in your pocket and enjoy more sunsets. Apply the lot, and you’ll wake up one day and realise that you’re happier, wealthier, fitter, and more in lust with life than you’d ever thought possible.
Categories: Leadership & Strategy
About the Author
After being born in a snowstorm in Boulder, Colorado, and raised in the baking summers of Western Australia, Annie ran away to Melbourne in search of Art. She found it; grew cynical about it; became a professional horticulturalist, an amateur ecologist, and a passionate long-distance hiker. Journeys up many volcanoes and across several deserts ensued. At some point she became cynical about life without art, and started writing. Her interest in human relationships to landscape led to teaching workshops on foraging, which led to co-authoring The Weed Forager’s Handbook: A Guide to Edible and Medicinal Weeds in Australia and the children's book Let’s Eat Weeds: A Kids’ Guide to Foraging. Lust for life and extreme scepticism about consumption as a route to contentment led to writing The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide To Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More. These days, Annie has run away back to Western Australia, where she’s working on her sunburn, her backstroke, and how to think better thoughts about the Anthropocene. She has recently published the novel Once (shortlisted for the 2025 Western Australian Premier’s Book Award). A second novel and a book about human-animal interactions are taking shape, and are providing endless joy and anguish.
