Feel like you’re trying to dig out from under a mountain of debt without a shovel? Tired of working your tail off just to break even? Is the high cost of living taking all the joy out of life? Unless you’re one of the top two percent of wealthiest Americans, all of the above should sound painfully familiar. While they’re trying to decide between the ski lodge in Telluride and the Tuscan villa, for the rest of us, it’s an endless litany of corporate lay-offs, stagnant wag (more…)
Get smart about spending and saving — and ride out a recession! Looking for practical ways to make every dollar count? This savvy guide gives you expert tips for tightening your belt and saving cash in every area of your life — from your house and car to dining and entertaining to banking and managing debt. You get realistic solutions for making smarter choices and living well in this time of economic turmoil — without extraordinary sacrifice! Bump up your take-ho (more…)
Use It Up! Is a one-stop, A-Z resource for practical and proven ideas to cut down on waste, plus easy recipes for common kitchen leftovers. Clear the clutter in your refrigerator as you discover innovative and delicious ways to use that very last spoonful. Save time and money when you shop for your groceries. Includes pocket pages for notes, reminders, shopping lists, coupons, and your own money-saving ideas. 8″ x 10″, 20 pages and 2 pockets.
Review
“We have always known that delicious and nutritious meals can be prepared at home for less than a family spends off the value menu at the local fast food stop.The Frugal Foodie not only features tasty recipes that stretch the food dollar but also includes fun and useful tips for kids projects, beauty remedies and edible gifts.”– Rima Barkett and Claudia Pruett, authors of Cooking Dinner: Simple Italian Family Recipes Everyone Can Make.”Shirk and Star will have you whipp (more…)
Living Well on Practically Nothing: Revised and Updated Edition is for people who need to live on a lot less money. If you have been fired, demoted, retired, divorced, widowed, bankrupted or swindled – or you just want to quit your job and remain financially self-reliant – this book is for you. In it are hundreds of tips, secrets and necessary skills for living well on little money. Chapters include: Save Up to $37,000 a Year and Live on $12,000 a Year; Low-Cost Computers for Fu (more…)
From Publishers Weekly
Departing from the get rich mantra of many personal finance books, Yeager, once dubbed the Ultimate Cheapskate by NBC’s Today Show, instead advises readers to shift their priorities and live well on less in this sensible guide to frugal living. Yeager himself retired from a career as a nonprofit executive at age 46 by saving on expenses large (he and his wife renovated their home themselves and exercise and eat well to cut down on medical costs) and small ( (more…)
From Booklist
There’s no doubt that today’s families can use some help in balancing the household finances, and the Economides family, headed by a former ad sales exec and his homemaker wife, deliver the goods here. To an extreme. As founders of the HomeEconomiser newsletter, the couple offers plenty of helpful tips on shopping and menu planning, saving, reducing debt, and cutting back on utilities. Most of Middle America, however, will probably find their habits overly harsh. Ta (more…)
This book is phenomenal! Is your business improving? Is your church growing? What does it mean to have a big front door and a big back door? How can I prosper in good times and in bad times? Enjoy the practical and down to earth teaching in this book.
About the Author
One night, whilst still a medical student, the Lord anointed Dag Heward-Mills as he waited on Him in a remote town of Ghana. He was supernaturally anointed and heard the words from now on yo (more…)
Best-selling author Marjorie Harris offers a timely and entertaining guide to living the richly frugal life. From tips on how to haggle to becoming a frugal fashionista, maintaining your home on a budget, and thrifty gardening, travel, and entertainment, Harris provides essential guidelines to living a quality life on less. Written in her trademark witty, engaging, and accessible style, Thrifty is packed with simple and savvy tips drawn from Harris’ own fulfilled, thrifty experi (more…)
Frugality in business is back in style. Frugality Mentality is a short (and free) eBook intended primarily for small business owners, professionals (doctors, dentists, lawyers, etc.) who run their own practice and smaller non-profits. The eBook sets up the case for running a truly frugal business as a primary way to increase profits!The author of Frugality Mentality has a long career working in and owning small businesses and offers a super practical approach – no MBA stuff he (more…)