My Frugal Life - "I longed for a simpler lifestyle." When I was in my early 50s, I began to question the lifestyle my husband and I were living. I longed for a simpler lifestyle: I knew I wanted less stress, I knew I was tired of working for someone else, and I felt there had to be a way to achieve my goal of quitting the corporate world for good. Quitting was going to be easy, but the more difficult task was finding the ways I could maintain my goal once I did quit. in Public bookmarkswith 50sbeganearlyhusbandlifestylelivinglongedsimpler