Read any finance book and it will tell you to spend less and save more. But a financial planner telling a shopaholic to simply save more money is like a marathon runner telling a morbidly obese person to just exercise more. Where do you start? How do you go from finding refuge in retail therapy to being able to walk past your favourite shop with your savings intact? Stressed, time-poor and addicted to the buzz of a newly purchased item, Neradine Tisaj had a definite shopping problem. But when she decided to try to save, no one could offer her advice that related to her lifestyle. One planner told her to find a husband and live off the one salary. Another told her to stay in each Saturday night and eat boiled eggs. Determined to both enjoy life and save money, Neradine devised a plan to find a way back to conscious, healthy spending without forgoing a busy social life. Packed with truly helpful tips and cheeky anecdotes, How to Give up Shopping is for anyone who would like to save but also live. After all, man (and woman) does not live on boiled egg alone.
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Neradine Tisaj works in the high-pressure, high-consumption world of television. She realised how out of balance her life had become when a meditation teacher asked what gave her joy in her life and she responded, My Prada handbag. She would answer differently now.
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful
By A. Fishburne
Format:Paperback
I devoured this pretty little book.
It reads like a letter from your best friend - the tone is chatty, honest and friendly which makes it immensely readable.
The advice is direct and manageable. It's not always comfortable reading however, as to get out of a shopping addiction, you do need to stop shopping, which isn't easy! But the process becomes a lot more manageable with this book full of tips and suggestions that encourage readers to explore their creative sides and seek their thrills in other places than the shopping mall - all with the aim of discovering a richer and more meaningful life experience.
As someone with what I think of as a 'mild' shopping problem (never been in debt, but can't let a day pass without buying something) I found this book incredibly reassuring. Here was a successful, intelligent, witty woman who had successfully dealt with the same issues I have been struggling with. Reading her story made me feel a lot less alone as well as a lot less crazy and shallow! It becomes clear in the later parts of the book that she does overcome her shopping problems and her perspective shifts - charity, thrift and relationships all become focuses of her life and she discovers what is truly important.
I would like to say thank you for an honest book so full of sense and join with the previous reviewer in wishing the author every good thing in life.
It reads like a letter from your best friend - the tone is chatty, honest and friendly which makes it immensely readable.
The advice is direct and manageable. It's not always comfortable reading however, as to get out of a shopping addiction, you do need to stop shopping, which isn't easy! But the process becomes a lot more manageable with this book full of tips and suggestions that encourage readers to explore their creative sides and seek their thrills in other places than the shopping mall - all with the aim of discovering a richer and more meaningful life experience.
As someone with what I think of as a 'mild' shopping problem (never been in debt, but can't let a day pass without buying something) I found this book incredibly reassuring. Here was a successful, intelligent, witty woman who had successfully dealt with the same issues I have been struggling with. Reading her story made me feel a lot less alone as well as a lot less crazy and shallow! It becomes clear in the later parts of the book that she does overcome her shopping problems and her perspective shifts - charity, thrift and relationships all become focuses of her life and she discovers what is truly important.
I would like to say thank you for an honest book so full of sense and join with the previous reviewer in wishing the author every good thing in life.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Amanda
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
To be honest, much of this book is common sense. I was reading it with some hope that it might have some advice that I hadn't previously considered but to be honest, it didn't really tell me anything I didn't already know.
Having said that, it's a dinky little book and as another review said, the writer does have a chatty tone which makes it very readable.
Recommended but dont expect miracles!
Having said that, it's a dinky little book and as another review said, the writer does have a chatty tone which makes it very readable.
Recommended but dont expect miracles!
By D. Maslen
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book will help cut down on spending and sdtart organising my finances properly. Glad I found it and hope to put it to good use.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars
its just ok
Im a shopoholic, and Im really looking for a way to get out of my situation. Though I am not in debt or owe hundreds of pounds, I want to improve my life, I dont have space in my... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mari Weston
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not worth the money
I was shocked at how thin and small the book was when it arrived. The advice is commonsense, there was nothing i didn;t already know. Read more
Published 14 months ago by wanderinjules
4.0 out of 5 stars
Non-patronising book if you shop too much!
Written by a real 'shopaholic' who found her way out the other side, this is kind and non-patronising read for anyone else who is thinking they shop too much, and is maybe... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Miss Fusspot
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good book, but better for a wake up call
I think I bought this book too late! I was in debt crisis 1 year ago and went through all the emotional turmoil that comes with facing a spending problem and clawing your way out... Read more
Published on 15 Mar 2011 by Andree Latibeaudiere
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