This book will help you be determined to save, to spend less, to stretch, to use the hints that follow, and then to start developing your own ideas. You will not only succeed in lowering your cost of living but you will also start a new adventure and contribute to conservation in the process. Quite the opposite of being dreary, meeting the challenge of living on less can provide enormous satisfaction—an unexpected bonus. Few of us will ever meet and conquer momentous challenges. Few will ever stop a bank robbery, shoot the rapids of the Amazon, or climb Mount Everest. But the determined can gain their own kind of satisfaction by conquering challenges that chop away at ever-declining purchase power.