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10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget |  | Author: The Writers of Wise Bread
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 34388
Media: Paperback
Edition: Original
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 160239704X
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.024
EAN: 9781602397040
ASIN: 160239704X
Publication Date: May 12, 2009
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Product Description
Tips for living the good life—in a bad economy—from WiseBread.com. Filled with savvy tips on how to live, eat, shop, and have fun on a small budget, 10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget is a compilation of the juiciest tips from the #1 personal finance blog WiseBread.com, including: - 9 Ways to See the World For Free
- 12 Ways to Live Rent or Mortgage Free
- 6 Steps to Eliminating Your Debt Painlessly
- 7 Ways to Score Free Food
- Bulk Buying 101
- 10 Killer Ways to Feel Like a Million Bucks
- 6 Horrible Financial Products to Avoid
- 7 Beauty Secrets that Cost Almost Nothing
- 50 Ways to Get the Most Out of Health Care
- 12 Fabulous Frugal Party Ideas
Too many frugal living books focus on the negative, throwing around words such as "sacrifice" and "responsibility" like there was a fire sale at the Boring Store. But the writers at Wise Bread believe the key to financial wellness isn't a ramen-eating, vacation-skipping, fun-depriving life. Far from it. The best way to ensure that readers will stick to a budget is to help them create a lifestyle that is as much fun as it is practical. 40 color
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 Here's a good start to save money... September 6, 2010
Wolf Hanschen
The book seems to have some good insight. Rather than spend the $10 to buy the book, however, just go to Google books and read it there for free.
Lots of Helpful Hints August 11, 2010
S. Fanello
I was hesitant to purchase this, but it truly has lots of tips/advice that is useful. I really liked all the websites it provided in the back for savings/blogs/finance etc. So I say definetly worth the money unlike a lot of savings books I've read. :)
 Many useful suggestions August 10, 2010
maryOTR (Houston, TX USA)
Even though I have taken the Dave Ramsey course, I found more ideas for being frugal in this book.
A pick any general lending library needs February 13, 2010
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget offers insight of financial consultants, homemakers, journalists, career counselors and more who contribute to a community of bloggers committed to helping readers live large on small budgets. From frugal ways to care for allergies to wrapping gifts using everyday household materials, this packs in many keys to success and is a pick any general lending library needs.
 What a waste of paper... January 26, 2010
G. Lukin (Reno, NV)
85 out of 111 found this review helpful
Technically, my one-star rating is incorrect: when a book has no useful content whatsoever, it should be zero stars. Alas, such option is unavailable, so I'll have to make do with this...
I had high hopes for this book - I really did. It's written by a group of personal finance experts and it's got nothing but rave reviews on Amazon (I hope I won't be the sole dissenter) - what could possibly go wrong? Like most other projects put together by a committee, it feels raw and incomplete. To give you a basic idea, this is the kind of book that would have been useful 20 years ago, before the advent of the Internet. Every single tip listed in this book can be found with Google in less than a minute. Because of the space constraint (10,001 tips and only 346 pages), most of the tips get just one brief paragraph.
I'm a dedicated bachelor, I don't plan on getting married or having kids, I don't like to cook (other than the easiest dishes - pasta and boiled eggs), I have neither a car nor a garage, my landlord does all the "home improvement" in my house for free, and I don't buy into this pointless, feel-good "green living" fad. Because of all of the above, none of the tips in this book apply to me. Evidently, "living large" means keeping old rags all over your house instead of using paper towels, and giving your friend a measuring cup or a coloring book with crayons on his or her birthday. (I'm not making this up!) The sections on investing and money managing were marginally interesting, but like I said, one can find the same information (and more of it!) online in less than a minute.
Finally, the book is rather poorly edited. There is an overabundance of typos ("a tore-up baseball cap"), downright ridiculous errors that should have been caught by proofreaders ("$11 dollars"), constantly-changing pronouns (using either "he" or "she" throughout a section when referring to a person who is presumably not a hermaphrodite) and poor editing (references to wrong page numbers, etc.).
To summarize, the book has no original tips, it's over-hyped, can be replaced by Google (it saves time *and* money! haha) and, to be honest, is somewhat of an insult to one's intelligence. I wouldn't recommend it to anybody except for the people who spent their whole lives in coma and don't have access to Google, or those strange individuals who want to know what Linsey Knerl (one of the writers) wears to bed, where she hides her money (spoiler alert: in her tampon box - and no, I am not making this up), and how cold her toilet seat is in the morning. I refuse to believe that people who produced this rubbish got paid for their efforts (and I'm using the word "efforts" very, very loosely). Learn from my mistake and don't buy this book. If you're dead-set on reading it, get it from a library - but don't spend your hard-earned money.
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