Voluntary Poverty: How to Simplify Your Life

Name of facilitator:

James Park

E-mail:

PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU

Phone:

612-871-7275

Course description:

VOLUNTARY POVERTY:
HOW TO SIMPLIFY YOUR LIFE

Would you like to meet other people who live simply?
This seminar has become a gathering place
for people already committed to voluntary simplicity.

What ideas do you have for saving money?

This seminar will be an opportunity to share our experiences
of living on much less than most people think is essential.
Can we be happy earning and spending less than $10,000 per year?

How do you obtain the small amount of money you need to survive?
How do you manage to spend so much less than other people?
Can any of your techniques be used by others?

Here is the comprehensive course description for this class:
Voluntary Poverty: How to Simplify Your Life,
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/D-VP.html

Here you will find more details about the life-style of the facilitator,
who lives at 75% of the federal poverty level.
You will also learn more about our Facebook Page,
which is called "Simple Living in the Twin Cities".
(There is also more about our Facebook Page
at the bottom of this course description.)

This workshop will be just one meeting of two hours.
This should be enough to share ideas for living cheaply.

If you would like to know how I save money on electricity, for example
(paying only $21 per month), go to:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/CY-ELEC.html

If you would like to read some books on simplifying your life,
go to the Simplicity Bibliography:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/%7Eparkx032/B-SIMP.html

TIME:

The February meeting of this seminar
was attended by about 12 people.
We are likely to have another gathering soon.
So click to join the e-mailing list if you are interested in voluntary simplicity.

DATE:

To be arranged.

PLACE:

To be arranged.

CLASS SIZE:

Minimum 10 Maximum 30

Additional Facilitator Info:

When I have offered similar presentations before,
they have been well attended.
Lots of people are looking for ways to save money,
especially now that we are in recession.

More about the facilitator: James Park

I have been living cheaply ever since I retired in 1968 and sold my one and only car.
1968 was also the last year for which I owed any income tax.
Since then I have facilitated about 200 different adult education groups.
Most of these seminars were in the Minnesota Free University.
Learn more about my career in
Adult Alternative Education including several other possible classes.

I have published my spending for 2007 and 2008 on the Internet:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/%7Eparkx032/SPJP0708.html.

And here is a suggested list of categories for spending:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/SPEND.html.

revised 3-8-2010