| Edition |
Tin House Books edition. |
| Description |
218 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
We quite the rat race -- The cost of living -- Income -- We rassle with our consciences -- Meat -- Fish -- Gardening -- Grain -- Groceries -- Preserving food -- Nutrition -- The "necessities of life" -- Housing -- Heating -- Electricity -- Clothing -- Transportation -- Law -- Health and medicine -- Daily living. |
| Summary |
Freed guides readers on how to buy and maintain a home, dress well, stay healthy, save money, and be lazy, proud, miserly, and honest, all while enjoying leisure and keeping up a middle-class façade. Possum Living instructs on practical matters, including how to grow and can food, raise and slaughter rabbits, catch and cook fish and turtles, and distill your own moonshine. |
| Subject |
Life skills -- United States.
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Unemployed -- United States -- Life skills guides.
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Cost and standard of living -- United States.
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Housing, Rural -- United States -- Finance.
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Home economics -- Accounting.
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| ISBN |
9780982053935: $12.95 |
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0982053932 |
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