Living on a Shoestring: A Survival Guide for Coping with Finances, Furnishings, Recipes, Rents, and Roommates, Etc.

This book, in 199 pages helped me survive an income of about $2500 annually in the early 1980's. The advice is directed at those at the poverty line and is as timely today as it was then. How to shop, what to buy, what to eat,how to budget, where to live, roommate issues, landlord issues, how to clean cheaply, it is all in this one volume. There is a 136 page cookbook of some of the best frugal recipes you will ever find, and they are mostly nutritionally balanced. This book should be in its 20th printing by now, but it simply did not catch on.