New Titles How I Lived a Year on Just a Pound a Day. KATH KELLY
How I Lived a Year on Just a Pound a Day. KATH KELLY
(Published by Redcliffe Press )
With the recession biting and green issues constantly in the news, publication of this entertaining but always practical guide to sensible living could not be more timely.Incredible but true – the story of how one woman lived for a whole year on just a pound a day.Kath Kelly was broke.That was OK, as all her friends were, too.But she had an important event to budget for, just a year away.One drunken night, she made a rash decision: to live on just a pound a day for the next twelve months.In 12 month-by-month chapters, she tells how a mission to cut her spending to the bone showed her another side of herself and of human nature.Through a year like no year she had spent before, she discovered how greed and waste was messing up people – to say nothing of the planet – and came to see how much fun can be had on a few pennies a day.
A comprehensive directory of organisations and websites provides invaluable leads for all of us – whether we want to follow Kath all the way or just pick up tips on how to save money and live more sensibly.