"We are lovers of beauty without extravagance" - Thucydides I read this amazingly simple and heartwarming quote from a book this weekend. The book is Frugal Luxuries - Simple Pleasures to Enhance Your Life and Comfort Your Soul by Tracey McBride and I really, really, really, can't say enough good things about it. The idea behind the book is to show us how being frugal and simple in our taste is really an art form. It has nothing to do with being miserly or being a cheapskate and everything to … [Read more...]