The Complete Cheapskate: How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out, and Break Free from Money Worries Forever

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Macmillan, 2003 - 256 páginas

In need of a Money Makeover?

Let America's most popular cheapskate show you how to go from financial chaos to freedom and security--painlessly and in less time than you ever imagined.

Mary Hunt has helped thousands live a debt-free life with her popular newsletter, "The Cheapskate Monthly." In The Complete Cheapskate, Mary puts all the very best money advice she has in one place. Becoming a classy, dignified cheapskate is not all that difficult, and Mary shows how with her user-friendly principles of saving, restraint, and living debt-free.

This book will teach you how to:
- Create--and stick to--a monthly spending plan
- Live well off 80% of your income
- Climb out--and stay out--of debt's hole
- Stretch every dollar to its absolute maximum
- Manage savings and investments
- Lower bills on clothes, food, and gifts without lowering living standards
- Live within a financial plan that includes a margin for fun and spontaneity

With hundreds of tips on cutting expenses, The Complete Cheapskate is the indispensable guide for people ready to regain control of their finances, relieve the stress money has created, and prepare for their future.

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Been There Done That My Story How I Went from Spendthrift to Cheapskate
1
Are You a Good Money Makeover Candidate? Diligence Not Miracles Brings Results
11
Developing Healthy Money Attitudes Progress Begins with Transforming Your Heart and Mind
21
The Debt Mess How You Got Here and How to Begin Getting Out
27
The Principle of Giving Expose Yourself to Supernatural Intervention
45
The Principle of Saving Part of Everything You Earn Is Yours to Keep
52
The Principle of Living DebtFree How to Develop Your Rapid DebtRepayment Plan
62
The Principle of Preparation How to Develop Your Freedom Account
71
The Principle of Restraint How to Live Within Your Means
91
Difficult Situations What to Do with LessthanTidy Circumstances
116
Cheap Shots Hundreds of Ways to Cut Expenses
128
Its Never Too Late Begin Turning Things Around Today
164
The Best of Cheapskate Monthly Articles
168
Fifty Fabulous Ideas from Folks like You
220
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Mary Hunt is the creator and publisher of "The Cheapskate Monthly," a newsletter that has provided help and advice since 1992 to overspenders and those burdened with debt. Author of several books on living debt-free and a popular speaker, she has appeared on such shows as Good Morning America and The Oprah Winfrey Show, and she has been featured in USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, Newsday, and The Wall Street Journal. She lives with her husband in Orange County, California.

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