This is an essay about the basic rules for living by low living standard, as it is in Bulgaria. The material is quite motley in its character, but isn’t abstract at all, and is based on checked by the author methods and techniques. The narration begins with general advices for reasonable way of life (which have mostly philosophical character) and the main strategies for survival, then continues with concrete recommendations for subsistence in urban conditions, and ends with some special skills; there is also traditional poetic appendix translated in English. The approximate circle of readers is about a quarter of our population.   Keywords: reasonable way of life, economies, philosophy, jogging, wines, mushrooms, Bulgarian survival, in English.