Build A More Resilient FutureIt's our paradox for the 21st century. The richer we've grown in material goods, the less we seem able to cope. We have access to borrowed money, but we can't save $500 for an emergency. Many families are one paycheck from financial disaster, yet the culture discourages us from saving money. We're told to spend more, even to go into debt for a new car, an oversized home, or a college education. We're bankrupting our future to pay interest on our past spending. We've become slaves to debt."Suburban Stockade" is Teresa Peschel's manifesto memoir about her quest to drop out of the rat race, embrace her peasant ancestry, and prepare her family for an uncertain future. She describes how our emphasis on a consumer economy and cheap goods blinded us to the personal and moral costs of economic growth. To pursue material wealth, we're taught to ignore the value of family, friends, and community, and the pleasures of a comfortable home and good food. Peschel describes how to win by paying down debts, saving money, buying a home we can age in, and keeping ourselves secure. Although not a how-to book, Peschel describes how she cut expenses through simple tasks such as insulating her home, hanging laundry, searching for mongo and obtainium, and effective grocery shopping. Peschel dares you to build your suburban stockade by not playing the game where the rules are set by corporations and economists and rigged by politicians and the media.
Build A More Resilient FutureIt's our paradox for the 21st century. The richer we've grown in material goods, the less we seem able to cope. We have access to borrowed money, but we can't save $500 for an emergency. Many families are one paycheck from financial disaster, yet the culture discourages us from saving money. We're told to spend more, even to go into debt for a new car, an oversized home, or a college education. We're bankrupting our future to pay interest on our past spending. We've become slaves to debt."Suburban Stockade" is Teresa Peschel's manifesto memoir about her quest to drop out of the rat race, embrace her peasant ancestry, and prepare her family for an uncertain future. She describes how our emphasis on a consumer economy and cheap goods blinded us to the personal and moral costs of economic growth. To pursue material wealth, we're taught to ignore the value of family, friends, and community, and the pleasures of a comfortable home and good food. Peschel describes how to win by paying down debts, saving money, buying a home we can age in, and keeping ourselves secure. Although not a how-to book, Peschel describes how she cut expenses through simple tasks such as insulating her home, hanging laundry, searching for mongo and obtainium, and effective grocery shopping. Peschel dares you to build your suburban stockade by not playing the game where the rules are set by corporations and economists and rigged by politicians and the media.
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