“Life must be a mixture of frugality and luxury.” -- Marilyn Whelan
Caviar Living is a hand guide of home-spun lessons from a life well lived. Marilyn Whelan shares her wisdom from how to connect with your community to how to play your mortgage like a game.
With short snappy chapters Whelan gives us tips and tidbits on:
· Fun ways to teach your kids and grandkids about money
· How to keep a clutter-free house – and why!
· Creative ways to get a tax break
· How to stretch a dollar on everything from real estate to creative vacations
Part budget guide, part spiritual manual, and a whole lotta charm, Caviar Living is a lifetime of lessons wrapped up in this 98-pages of fun.
One
of my favorite adventures was a month
I
spent volunteering for the National Park Service
at
Andersonville, GA. Andersonville was
the
site of the largest prisoner of war camp in
the
South for Union soldiers during the Civil
War.
It is now a national park that includes a
museum
devoted to POWs from all of America’s
wars.
I was a greeter in the museum, helping
visitors
look up their ancestors, and I sometimes
helped
in the gift shop. My two days off
per
week were spent touring the area. While
I
was there, I stayed in a small cottage in the
77
cemetery.
I was the only one on the grounds
at
night. It gave me lots of time to reflect, and I
took
several projects with me to work on. There
was
no television reception in the area, nor did
I
have Internet access.
My
second-favorite volunteer location was
with
Pueblo Ingles. This is a for-profit agency
that
helps Spanish executives perfect their English.
For
the Spaniards, it is a very expensive
program
paid for by their employers. The program
does
not accept participants who speak
only
Spanish, because the goal is for them to
totally
immerse themselves in English. Once
you
are accepted into the program as a volunteer,
you
work with program personnel to select
a
date. If you’re coming with friends, they
work
with you to offer a week to your party as
a
group.
Marilyn Whelan has worked as a reporter, a district supervisor in a first time youthful offenders program, and President of Shoppers Critique International. Her want is to die with something remaining on her bucket list, because when something is crossed off, something else is added. Marilyn currently lives in Clearwater, Florida, where she is Granny to seven, and Great Granny to three. She loves to travel and plays Mah Jongg twice a week.
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