Hello from Enes Smith. I want to share with you my strategies for living for almost free, so you can do the same things in your life. I live in Central Oregon, on the beautiful slopes of the Cascade Mountain range. I have worn many hats in my life – a long time writer of suspense and police procedural novels, detective, college instructor, and for the last seven years, my total housing expenses have been $50.00 a month.
For much of my adult live, I lived what I thought was the American dream. I owned a home on a golf course in a beautiful resort area, drove a BMW and Mercedes, and owned an SUV for winter travel. When my daughter moved into her own apartment, I told friends that I was going to live for free, or almost free.
Their responses were uniform:
“Can’t be done,” I was told.
“Doesn’t exist.” Sometimes people would look at me as if I were crazy. What would I want to do that for? That’s not the American way.
I found a way to get off of the treadmill that many of us have been on, a way to find time to do the things I want and need to do: Time to write, to travel, to catch my breath and enjoy life, to adopt a more healthy lifestyle, to become more self-sufficient. What would you do with your time and money if you didn’t have a large mortgage or rent payment?
My book, available in paperback and on Kindle, has thoughtful ideas for you to produce the thing that we seem to run out of – time.
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