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Leah Ingram, aka The Confident Spender, has been showing people how to be smart with their money for more than a decade, helping thousands of people, regardless of their age or income, feel good about their finances. A regular contributor to Parade.com, her work has also appeared in AARP The mostrar más Magazine, Good Housekeeping, and many other publications. Ingram is the author of 15 books and holds a degree in journalism from New York University. For more information, visit www.LeahIngram.com mostrar menos

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Suddenly Frugal Lessons and Key Takeaways
Drink water more often. This cuts down on costs for juice and ginger ale and seltzer water. If you do buy ginger ale or seltzer water then make sure you get money back and use it strategically.
Pack lunch and bring to work or school every time you go.
Shop with a list that brings you a good investment on returns whether in cash or time.

Biggest Takeaway

Spend on finding deals that cost less money than spending money on expensive items bought on a whim.

Quote in Summary:

“Remember spending without a plan is foolish. Plan your spending and save your spending.”
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Kaianna.Isaure | otra reseña | Dec 12, 2022 |
While this books had really good tips on hand, most of the stuff was not really new.

Positive:
* 15 minute challenges were interesting and got you motivated
* How to make cash out of your items: some tips were useful, more useful probably for readers in the US

Negative:
* The cash-backs after every chapter were just ridiculous. I know it was meant so that you could write it in front of the title "X money worth cash!!" But really: Not everybody has Tiffany earrings sitting in their jewelry boxes.
* Author wrote her own perspective on things, making the tips plainly useless if you are not 100% in the same position
* The first chapter was downright insulting it is so stupid: Really, the 25 uses of shoeboxes?? I thought about giving up the whole book then but got myself through that chapter and afterwards it got better, but it's not a good start.

Somewhere in between:
* I cannot decide if the "toss-keep-sell" overviews are good or bad. I mean, people should know when to tolls, keep or sell an item, right?

Still 5 starts for the couple of useful tips that were in there and for being somewhat motivational to go through all the stuff, cluttering out the apartment.
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Geektesse | 3 reseñas más. | Dec 10, 2017 |
This book should be titled 'Confessions of a mentally ill hoarder.' I mean no disrespect to the author but of all the decluttering books I've ever read it contains some of the most bizarre assertions and advice. Did you know that you can hang things from hooks? If you happen to have antiques or Tiffany jewellery lying around you could sell it. And my absolute favourite: A house is not a home without a piano. I repeat: A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME WITHOUT A PIANO. IN A BOOK ABOUT DECLUTTERING. The less bizarre, same old basic well-worn advice that you'd expect to find is as useful as ever: 'Reduce, reuse and recycle. Or sell it if you can.' I'd have liked more on the ins-and-outs of selling your stuff. But there's very little of use here. It reads like someone who used to be a ridiculous hoarder finally found the religion of decluttering and decided to present their own hodge-podge of experiences as advice for other people. There's also something amusingly American upper-middle class about it. Who else would have a mud room, spare antique furniture and forgotten pairs of skis? The politest way I can put this is we live in very different worlds.… (más)
 
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graffiti.living | 3 reseñas más. | Oct 22, 2017 |
Pointless. So basic as to be laughable. The biggest discovery in this book? Shoeboxes! Woo! Put your pens in shoeboxes! Put your mail in shoeboxes! Put your... you get the idea.

There is nothing new here, nothing you haven't read a hundred times before, nothing you don't already know.

Glad I picked this up at the library instead of buying it.
 
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satyridae | 3 reseñas más. | Apr 5, 2013 |

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