Air Courier Association
In exchange for outrageously low airfares, and a ton of other benefits, you carry shipping documents on a major airline to the destination of your choice. When the plane lands, you hand the documents to an air freight company representative and start your vacation.

The Caretaker Gazette
You can enjoy rent-free living as a property caretaker in desirable locations. Estates, mansions, farms, ranches, resort homes, hunting and fishing lodges, private islands, and any other kind of property imaginable are listed in The GAZETTE.

Frugal Corner
Originally inspired by the Tightwad Gazette, the aim of this site is to provide and continually expand the informational resources needed to be successful at pursuing frugality.

Garbage Picker's Home Page
Have you ever gone down a road on a garbage day and seen something potentially interesting and then stopped to investigate? Well, if you answered "yes" then, buckeroo, you are a garbage picker!

Overcoming Consumerism 
Consumerism is a pattern of behavior that helps to destroy our environment, personal financial health, the common good of individuals and human institutions.

Simple Life Style
The commitment to live simply in voluntary poverty is made with hope that this choice will free the spirit to focus more on people, and less on material possessions. Living more simply can be an alternative to consumerism.

Voluntary Simplicity Resource Guide
This list of over 150 books evolved from Linda Breen Pierce's research on simple living.

WWOOF International
WWOOF organizations compile a list of organic Host farms that (from time to time) welcome volunteer help. When you join a WWOOF organization, you will be put in contact with these Host farms. It is then up to you to contact the Host farms that interest you and make your own arrangements with them.

For more resources on this subject and other alternatives to Western mainstream culture visit
Zenzibar Alternative Culture

If any of the above are dead links please e-mail me.

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