Do you find you have less and less time to do the things you enjoy? Do you worry that your lifestyle is damaging the planet? Do you find that no matter how hard you work you never seem any better off financially? Do you wonder how you will cope in times of economic down turn? Do you wonder whether you will ever be really happy? Something about how we live our lives is going drastically wrong, but what? This book explores the hidden process that drives our ever increasing material consumption and explains the true price of this lifestyle - ever increasing debt. Using average income and expenditure figures it proposes a simple, practical alternative that will allow anyone, regardless of income, to free themselves from debt and dramatically improve their standard of living.