Living with almost no possessions can teach true frugality

Evidence

This has been a day of minor events, as well as a busy one. I was so busy that I never sat down from 10:30 till 1:30. I had washed my one change of raiment, and though I never iron my clothes, I like to bleach them till they are as white as snow, and they were whitening on the line when some furious gusts came down from Long’s Peak, against which I could not stand, and when I did get out all my clothes were blown into strips from an inch to four inches in width, literally destroyed! One learns how very little is necessary either for comfort or happiness. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 500

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Connects to the reader’s interest in the daily material life of women in the West — a concrete instance of making do with a single change of clothing.
• XREF: connects to: True wealth is a single empty space rather than accumulated possessions — Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, 493