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Why not Spend Smart and improve your financial future? The typical household struggles today to get ahead, to create a little breathing room. Conventional wisdom no longer applies as it once did. Though we all hope to make more money, we have learned that...Making lots of money is NOT the same as getting ahead!
You have more control over your spending than your income, so why not put time and energy into the area you control more? Dollars are leaking our of your life each month, like water from a bucket with holes in it. Spend Smart will help you plug these holes in your financial life and put extra money into your pocket each month. There many books about investing. Spend Smart is not an investing book - Spend Smart is the book that will help you reach the point where you have the extra money each month to begin investing or extra money to use as you choose!
Books: Paperback
Get your spending under control and create a budget that will get you on the road to financial freedom. In an age of information overload, many simply don't have the time, knowledge or organizational skills to create a simple, functional system for managing personal finances. Now in its fourth edition, The Budget Kit: The Common Cents Money Management Workbook is a best-selling classic that has helped hundreds of thousands of people across America develop effective budgets and gain financial freedom. Even if you are using a financial software program, you will find the concepts in The Budget Kit to be essential to your understanding of budgeting.
Available in Paperbaack and Digital Download
There is something here for everyone - the most amazing item is the author's list of tips for saving over $10,000 in one year - without clipping coupons or depriving your family of nutritious food. She's an savvy shopper, a practiced cook, a clever house keeper and a creative mother who knows how to entertain her kids while teaching them excellent life skills.
Books: Paperback
With The Money Tracker, you'll learn where ALL your money goes. Inspirational success stories will encourage you to track your spending money and jot down your thoughts and reflections on why you spend. With these insights you'll better understand your behavior toward money, and the seasons behind your purchase. Using this hand-on journal for just minutes a day you'll gain control over your spending like never before, and turn your dollars into riches for your future.
Available in Hardcover
Michelle Singletary is a syndicated columnist for The Washington Post whose popular personal finance column appears in more than 120 newspapers. She’s also a mother of three children who understands what it’s like to live on a budget. In a plainspoken, sassy, no-nonsense voice, Michelle provides answers to the financial issues that confront almost every household: how to teach children the value of money; how to address money issues in a relationship or marriage; household saving tips; getting the best loans; and much more.
Books: Paperback
Jean Chatzky, one of America’s most popular personal finance experts, writes in down- to- earth, woman-next-door language about how to get started right away, without giving up the things that truly give you pleasure. She offers practical, accessible strategies to help readers find the money to pay off their bills, lower their interest rates, and improve their credit scores. Featuring real-life examples of people featured on her Today show series, Pay It Down can transform debtors into future millionaires.
Books: Hardcover
Most money management systems were created by accountants for accountants. This system is different because it's visual, it's not intimidating, and it makes managing your money something you actually look forward to! It will help you clear away the confusion and clutter around your money -- making way for greater prosperity.
Books: Paperback
The hardest part of attaining personal financial freedom is getting started. Ilyce R. Glink makes it a snap. The smart, simple strategies presented in 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Improve Your Personal Finances let you take immediate control of your money.
Clark Howard advises the financially challenged on how to get great deals, stay out of debt, and create a financially sound future. He sticks with his bread-and-butter advice on purchasing cars and homes, prudently investing for retirement, and saving money on travel, insurance, and long-distance calling.
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Whether you're surviving on one income, saving for retirement, or struggling to make ends meet, you'll profit from Cheap Talk with the Frugal Friends.
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Save thousands of dollars while living well with The Best of Living Cheap News, a collection of the very best money-saving articles, tips, and advice from the Living Cheap News newsletter. Since its debut in 1992, the newsletter has provided its readers with hundreds of proven, practical ways to enjoy a comfortable lifestyle for a fraction of what one would think possible.
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Though tightwad seems like a derogatory term, author Amy Dacyczyn wants to assure you that it's okay to be a penny-pincher. This self-styled "Frugal Zealot" wrote and published The Tightwad Gazette for over six years to spread the frugal gospel. Each issue contained tips from her personal experience and from her many readers. The wealth of information contained in all these issues has been compiled into one volume for the first time. You'll find literally thousands of ideas for saving money, from the simple or practical to the difficult or bizarre. Review by Amazon.com
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Jonni McCoy and her family are proof that you live on one income. The McCoys made a successful transition from two incomes to one while living in one of the most expensive parts of America: the San Francisco Bay Area.
Her Miserly Guidelines will help you save thousands of dollars a year on everything from groceries to electricity to insurance and household cleaners—as well as reveal the hidden costs of holding a job and common money wasters. Her practical, proven cost-saving techniques, strategies, tips, and recipes will help you live frugally without feeling deprived.
Books: Paperback
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A financial adviser and former credit-card junkie presents her secrets for regaining control, repaying debt quickly, avoiding common mistakes, and managing self-employment, bankruptcy, and credit problems.
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From Sabotage to Success: How to Overcome Self-Defeating Behavior and Reach Your True Potential This book's self-directed, step-by-step approach grew out of the author's own recovery from self-defeating behavior. Her real-life examples, exercises, and action plans help you zero in on the self-defeating behaviors that can undermine your life.
Books: Paperback
If the holidays bring you a little something you don't want--debt!--stop worrying! The most famous cheapskate in the world, Mary Hunt, is here to help. With wisdom, wit and fabulous money-saving secrets, she delivers family fun without spending a fortune. So put away your credit card and feel the joy of the season without money headaches.
Books: Paperback