When it comes to making New Year’s resolutions, we all know how difficult it can be to get them started, much less keep them going throughout the year. While resolutions are fresh in people’s minds, the library is a resource they can use to kick off the New Year right.
A major resolution that seems to be a by-product of the holiday season is saving money. Buying books and movies gets expensive, and even renting can add up. Take a trip to your TBPL library branch where you'll find all of the latest books and movies available free of charge. Your TBPL card will also allow you to check out e-books, magazines, CDs, audio-books, use library computers and the Internet, access special electronic collections and more.
If you want to make more cost saving changes in other areas of your life from cooking and shopping to vacations, finance and decorating, TBPL offers materials to help you achieve and maintain your goals for happier living. Here’s just a small sampling of what you’ll find in library or online:
The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less by John Robbins. How do you define the good life? For many, success is measured not by health and happiness but by financial wealth. But such a worldview overlooks the important things in life: personal contentment, family time, spirituality, and the health of the planet and those living on it. A preoccupation with money and possessions is not only unhealthy, it can also drain the true joy from life. Robbins, heir to the Baskin Robbins family, walked away from a fortune only to lose most of his own money in Bernie Madoff's ponzi scheme uses his own personal experience, redefining our notions of a successful life and lending credibility to his own claims of enlightenment.
The Thrifty Cook: 200 Best Ever Meals on a Budget by Lucy Doncaster. This inspiring cookbook reveals how to create amazingly low-cost family meals that are still tasty, varied and nutritious. Using great-value ingredients and a little common sense, a delicious two-course meal can cost you less than a shop-bought sandwich, even including the accompaniments. Don’t think it’s doable? Think again, and borrow this book!
The Frugal Senior: Hundreds of Creative Ways to Stretch a Dollar! by Rich Gray. Covers everything from handling rising energy costs to recycling old clothing, simplifying garden maintenance, reducing the costs of gift-giving, and more. All the common expenses of daily living are dealt with here, with solutions to throwaway habits and rising costs focusing on re-use and refinement.
Savvy Chic: The Art of More for Less by Anna Johnson. Anna Johnson is not a tea-bag squeezer, a penny-pincher, or inherently thrifty in any way—but she knows how to enjoy the finer things in life . . . for much, much less! In Savvy Chic, she shares her secrets on how to dress, decorate, entertain, and travel in high style without breaking the piggy bank.
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy by Thomas Stanley. Creating wealth is sort of like dieting, everybody wants the end result but the discipline to achieve that result is usually lacking. "You aren't what you drive," Stanley mercilessly says and shows how wealth takes sacrifice, discipline, and hard work, qualities that are positively discouraged by our high-consumption society.
And on one final note, on behalf of all of us at the Thunder Bay Public Library, I wish you all happy holidays and a most prosperous New Year!
Arlene Danyleyko
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