If you wish to retain access to at least a small part of Frugality Cottage, there are several ways to do so.
What, if anything, do you consider to be special about Frugality Cottage, and why?
Answering that question will provide you with possible merit when seeking to enter here in future.
How do you usually attempt to access peace?
Authenticity is most healthily expressed through interpersonal compatibility.
Differing personalities are often incompatible in their expectations of situations, and in their appreciation of peace.
If you do not seek more peace in your life, why not?
If you do not help other people to find more peace in their lives, why not?
Perhaps you express your authentic self easier online than in other contexts.
What have you been learning about the cottage and peace in your explorations here?
Are you sure you have a peaceful investment strategy?
Truly useful cultural capital does not require much economic capital or social capital or even talent. It requires the determination to identify, develop and maintain an authentic identity, respectfully and responsibly.
How, then, is your acquired cultural capital consistent with your personality, your personal needs, and your preferred cultural identity?
What do you know about personality psychology?
Perhaps you would prefer to regard authenticity as being similar to the rediscovery and recovery a long-lost landscape and even a long-lost landscape garden.
Perhaps you would prefer to regard authenticity as a restored and restorative dwelling place.
If you are mainly seeking to satisfy your curiosity at present, how will you know when it has been satisfied?
How do you tell whether any investment, investor, patronage or patron is genuinely devoted towards a worthy cause or not?
How do you try to ascertain whether investors and/or patrons are hypocrites?
Who is a good investor and who is not, in your view, and how do you know?
Perhaps you associate abundance with wastefulness and extravagance.
How can you be sure you are not wasting your time here?
How do you usually express your authenticity if not through your
patronage experiences, whether as a supplier of patronage or as a
recipient?
Do you usually take information at face value or do you seek evidence?
Perhaps you are usually too busy to seek evidence.
Perhaps you often fail to assess whether evidence is authentic or not.
What do you currently know about necessary journeys and unnecessary ones, and how do you know it?
What do you currently know about necessary expenditure and unnecessary purchases, and how did you acquire that knowledge?
Do you think there is ever any point in investing in the past?
Why do you do so little to support economic systems based on intelligent frugality instead of greed?
How do you know your investments in fun do not encourage and possibly even exacerbate corruption?
Do you have a relatively high standard of living?
If so, how was it acquired?
Regardless of your standard of living, how are you currently investing in appropriately high standards?
How well are you investing in quality of life, and how do you know?
How often do you think about the relationship between knowledge and quality of life?
What is wonderful about you, really and truly, and who is qualified to verify that claim?
How do you usually explore imaginations, including your own?
How do you usually explore motivations, including your own?
What has motivated you to experience this episode of Authentic Living?
How do you know you have been truly wonderful and kind on a daily basis over the past few months?
What do you believe to be appropriate cultural practices, and how do you promote and protect them?
How do you prevent inappropriate cultural practices?
What do you produce, and why, and when?
What do you know about childhood development in humans?
How do you reflect upon your own development as a person?
How do you distinguish between development and decline, if at all?
How do you distinguish between the development and decline of people, places, purposes and possibilities?
Any permanent or semi-permanent dwelling, other than a cave or rock shelter, is probably unsuitable for a well-informed life on the move from one food source to another.
Building and maintaining a permanent or semi-permanent dwelling would probably be a waste of time and other resources when local food and/or water supplies are absent.
How do you usually try to understand people's needs and wants, including your own?
How do you assess the quality of your ongoing investments in relation to
heritage, in both its natural and cultural varieties?
How do you know whether you can afford to pay a premium price for a premium product or high quality experience?
How do you know when a place is special?
How do you know when a resources is valuable?
How do you know when an opportunity is wonderful?
How do you examine moral values in relation to economic values?
Where and how do you usually learn about value, and from whom?
What do you value, and why?
Who do you value, and how?
Perhaps you do not reflect upon such questions particularly deeply, even when thinking about the meaning of authentic living.
What do you already know about your authentic expressions of wisdom, and how did you gain that knowledge?
How consistent or otherwise are your expressions of wisdom?
How carefully do you define the meaning of free products, free services, free access and free societies?
How carefully do you assess the intentions of the suppliers of free access to a place, a resource and/or an opportunity?When feeling unwell, adequate calmness and rest are absolutely necessary for a relatively natural recovery, along with suitable nutrition and well-informed kindness.
How have you invested in certainty at various times in your life?
How authentic is your approach to caution?
How authentic are your expressions of respect?
How authentic is your approach to money?
When do you know that claims of economic conservatism are inauthentic?
When do you know that claims of economic conservatism are cruel?
How do you prefer to seek help in answering your questions?
How do you identify unkind people and other nuisances and seek to exclude them from your life as reasonably as possible?
How do you identify the wonderful in people and seek to include those individuals in your experiences of life as reasonably as possible?
Have you reached the age of 40 and possibly lived beyond it?
If so, do you regard yourself as fortunate?
If you have not yet reached the age of 40, how do you imagine your life when you reach that immensely important age?
Regardless of your current age, if you already have an authentic identity, it will be consistent with your natural characteristics rather than the expectations formerly imposed upon you through other people's cultural practices.
The wise expression of authenticity is conveyed through carefully considered moral choices.
Each week, since the beginning of the year, you have had a chance to experience the outline of each episode in this important series.
The responsibility for filling out that outline into something more substantial has been your own, in accordance with all reasonable and relevant laws and courtesies.
How have you been investing in thorough assessments this year?
How do you usually assess needs in relation to investing?
How do you usually assess trustworthiness in relation to investing?
How do you tell the difference between a door, a lock and a handle?
How do you tell the difference between a key, a guide and a product of nature?
Have you been wondering what to do about your most disastrous investments in travel, tourism and the mass media?
Have you been wondering what to do about your other disastrous investments, speculations and gambles?
Have you made any appreciative comments on any of the investment notes carefully produced and presented in the library here for your philanthropic benefit?
How do you know your expectations here are neither unrealistic nor cruel?
Good investments always require clear distinctions between one thing or person and another.
Have you ever contributed to the destruction of a much-loved world by
increasing the likelihood of catastrophic events immensely detrimental
to it?
Have you ever knocked down a much-loved cottage, or even an entire village, in order to build an airport runway, or a holiday resort, or a grand hotel, or a car park,or to participate in the latest trends in landscaping, road building, power generation, mining, shopping developments, sporting facilities and/or water storage?
How do you usually assess the effectiveness of your investments?
How do you invest in understanding your emotions?
Do you consider yourself to have high standards?
If you have direct investments in businesses, what is most worthy about those businesses, and your investments in them?
How well have you offloaded your unethical investments and other unethical sources of income?
Are you a successful investor in socially and environmentally responsible practices?
Do you know how to tell the difference between a patron and an investor?
You will probably already be aware that there is no point in raising funds for unworthy pursuits.
How do you usually assess worthiness?
Investments are not necessarily associated with competition.
There are many different ways to assess value.
Do you consider your acquisition of knowledge to be a pleasure or a burden?
How do you usually measure relative intelligence?
How do you usually measure adequate thoughtfulness?
How do you attempt to combine such measures?Have you recently taken a virtual tour around Frugality Cottage and its ethereal garden?
Are you adequately acquainted with the EverTime?
Do you consider authentic living to be mostly related to time or place or purpose?
Perhaps you associate authenticity with history.
Perhaps you would prefer your life to be an accurate re-enactment of a particular time in history, possibly from a specific socioeconomic, political, cultural and/or geographical perspective.
Is your acquaintance with history mainly a reflection of epistemology, ethics, aesthetics or metaphysics?
How do you prefer to acknowledge, and reflect upon, episodes of authenticity within your own mind and in your experiences of the world?
When have you experienced episodes of authentic living in your life experiences?
When have you experienced authentic interpersonal relationships, and how do you know?
Perhaps you prefer staying indoors.
Do you usually associate authenticity with tragedy or comedy or neither?
When, if ever, have you attempted to restore the authentic you?
How do you know your curiosity about anything is adequately connected to your intelligence?
How do you usually think about curiosity in relation to authenticity?
Perhaps you have rarely reflected upon such questions, at any time, in any place.
Perhaps you would prefer to think of authenticity as making your physical existence to be the place and time for authentic experiences of timeless wisdom, possibly through the harmonious interplay of beauty, understanding and magnificence.
If you are new here, please catch up with this series as soon as you can.
Here are the outlines of the earliest episodes: