The Spender's Guide to Debt-Free Living: How a Spending Fast Helped Me Get from Broke to Badass in Record Time
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (917 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01BLV6D6G |
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| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Spender's Guide to Debt-Free Living takes listeners through a detailed, step-by-step plan on how to do a spending fast and get out of debt, including: Creating a personalized debt-free life pledge Understanding where your money is going when you're in debt and where it will come from to pay it off Learning why putting money into a savings account before (or while) paying off debt may not be the best idea for you Finding additional income sources and generating side gigs Reintegrating spending into your life once you're out of debt so that you stay out of debt Filled with do-it-yourself ideas, insight from experts, and tons of motivational tips and real-life practical advice, The Spender's Guide to Debt-Free Living proves that you don't have to win the lottery or get a new job to change your life.. Anna's journey inspired people and showed them that they too could change the way they dealt with their own money woes. Amazingly, Anna was able to eliminate all $23,605.10 of her debt in only 15 months! She was interviewed in Forbes, Self, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, and the Chicago Tribune. On a whim, Anna decided to go on a spending fast - an idea she heard in passing but knew little about. Creating her own method, she learned what worked and what didn't and wrote about it on her blog, AndThenWeSaved. In 2009, young photographer Anna Newell Jones was rapidly suffocating under the weight of too much debt. She knew her debt wa
A Must Read for Serious People Who Want to be Debt Free I just finished reading Anna's book and i really liked it. Not everything relates to me or my debt, but there are tons of tips and ideas in the book that i can use. For example, at the very end she gives you a list of 150 things to do besides spend money including washing your car, write someone a letter, bake cookies, lie in the grass and watch the clouds, pet your cat/dog, go on a hike, Netflix binge, dance, go for a bike ride, etc. I even added a few of my own when i made my own pe. "The thing I love the most is how she doesn't set hard and" according to Amy Markham. I've followed Anna's blog for a long time. I've also read about every other book about money and debt free living out there, including The Total Money Makeover. However, something about Anna's methods and the way she explains them completely changed my way of thinking about debt, saving, and spending the way other books haven't. The thing I love the most is how she doesn't set hard and fast rules for you to live by. She encourages you to set your own rules so that you don't fail. THAT. I’m paying off my debt! The book has really helped me to get focused and make great moves toward tackling my debt. The format is great and didn’t feel like I was reading a boring text book. For some reason, Anna Newell Jones just spoke my language. I could relate to her and her story and it helped me realize that I really can do it too. Self-help books really aren’t my thing, but I’m so glad I read this. It really kicked me in the butt. Since I’ve read this book, instead of ADDING to