A journalist and author, Carter realized his family of six was living far beyond its means in rural Rockport, Maine, and decided they should try to live on $550 per month after mortgage payments. Among their new domestic policies are farming their front yard, raising chickens, eating roadkill, forgoing vacations and meals out, making their own birthday gifts, plugging trees for maple syrup, reusing coffee filters and bartering with neighbors.

Carter's book about the meager living will be titled A Year of Living within Our Means, although as I mentioned above, the film still lacks a proper title. (I'm assuming Carter's children would name it "I Hate My Cheap, Roadkill-Eating Father!") No director has signed on yet; Double Feature Films’ Stacey Sher and Michael Shamberg are producing.

Syracuse and Addario wrote the 2007 animated comedy Surf's Up, and recently worked on the Billy Crystal dramedy Us and Them.

Would you be able to live the way Carter decided to?

Source: Risky Business Blog