<p>How to live on 5 cents a day ?</p><p>How to survive financial ruin without losing your house ?</p><p>How to keep to a bare bones budget and still have money left over to buy books ?</p><p>Tough questions! They were tough questions when Sarah Elizabeth Harper Monmouth penned her quirky memoir.</p><p>She lived on a run-down small farm in New Hampshire when her investments imploded.</p><p>She awoke one morning to find herself poor--an old roof above her “dearer than life” but “not a dollar of money left.” For months she was “paralyzed with cold clammy terror . . . stunned and knew not what to do.” Then her “mind stepped to the front with a bold standard displayed.” She said to herself</p><p>“Understand once for all that I rule and make your plans accordingly.”</p><p>Lizzie Monmouth’s tale will make you stop and count your blessings...</p><p>How Lizzie Monmouth surmounted her poverty is an equally fascinating tale.</p>