- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Alpha; 1 edition (Jan 29 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 002863389X
- ISBN-13: 978-0028633893
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 11.2 x 0.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 132 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,536,630 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
The book that shows how to make the most of your money?now updated.
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
Living on a budget is essential for the vast majority of Americans. This new edition lays out the basics of budgeting, clearly and inexpensively. Readers will discover how to follow a budget, how to make the necessary big purchases, the financial dangers of leasing a car, and how to get their budget on paper and in workable categories.
-Most new jobs created in recent years are at a much lower salary than those lost in the preceding years
-Especially useful for the recent college grad, the recently divorced, the new parent, and others going through a lifestyle change that requires financial adjustments
-A low-priced pocket edition for the budget-conscious
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Does opening your credit card bill cause you to break out in hives? Are you always running out of money before your next paycheck? Don't you wish someone could just help you establish a budget, and make you stick to it? Well, don't go on another shopping spree just yet! The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Living on a Budget will have you paying off credit cards, setting up a budget, and sticking to it in no time. In this Pocket Idiot's Guide, you get:
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"Living on a budget": The very phrase conjures up grim visions of taking the bus to work, suffering through endless meals of beans and rice, and carefully reusing your vacuum cleaner bags. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Do Your Budget A Favor, Get A Different Book,
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This review is from: The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Living on a Budget, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
This book isn't expensive and it isn't without merit, but I recommend you look elsewhere. With all due respect to the authors, this book is rather gimmicky. The flow of the book is choppy and at several points the authors drop the ball by treating various subject with a degree of shallowness that is disappointing even for such a small pocket book. One example is the treatment of credit cards. They repeat the common mantras about credit cards, but the coverage of situations not to use credits cards is repetitive and there is no discussion whatsoever of point-systems that many credit cards offer--an amazing way for a person on a budget to expand their purchasing power.I close the cover of this book feeling that I've just hung up the phone with a chatty telemarketer, impressed with their jovial presentation but feeling hardly educated by the interchange.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Realistic, Simple Budget Help,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Living on a Budget (Paperback)
This books sets out very simple ideas, strategies and help for any person interested in watching their money. It is a simple planning book for budgeting that any [body] could use. Humor and straight-forwardness are the backbone of the book's help in money problem areas. It is a MUST READ!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Realistic Budgeting!,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Living on a Budget (Paperback)
I am horrid at managing my money, and I found this book very helpful. First of all, it is very short and to the point, which is great for those of us with a limited attention span when it comes to financial issues! Second, I like that they recommended budgeting a lump sum for personal "pocket" money and other similar categories, rather that suggesting I track every soda or pack of gum I buy during the month.
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