- Paperback: 225 pages
- Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc.; Reprint edition (April 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0345381300
- ISBN-13: 978-0345381309
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 631,767 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Unresolved money problems can lead to enormous stress and destroy relationships, careers, and lives. "The Money Drunk" offers new perspectives on the real roots of money problems, showing how to dismantle negative family and societal programming about money and how to undo the destructive patterns that sabotage financial success.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book has helped me greatly - and several others who borrowed it from me as well.
For years I was mystified by my money habits. I earn good money and I am neither greedy nor materialistic. Yet I constantly find myself maxed-out on credit. The people who benefited from all this spending were always others - never myself.
This book helped me to see where my problem lay and to understand how my up-bringing and past traumas with money have given me a blind spot when it comes to having and keeping money. We are supposed to be adults with money sense - yet I never learned that in school and certainly never learned it at home.
As well as helping me get an insight into where my money habits are letting me down, this book gives a tough program (based on proven addiction recovery techniques) to help me tackle this problem.
I am not yet out of debt - but thanks to the steps in this book I am on the path and feeling hope and confidence that, this time, I can do it.
For years I was mystified by my money habits. I earn good money and I am neither greedy nor materialistic. Yet I constantly find myself maxed-out on credit. The people who benefited from all this spending were always others - never myself.
This book helped me to see where my problem lay and to understand how my up-bringing and past traumas with money have given me a blind spot when it comes to having and keeping money. We are supposed to be adults with money sense - yet I never learned that in school and certainly never learned it at home.
As well as helping me get an insight into where my money habits are letting me down, this book gives a tough program (based on proven addiction recovery techniques) to help me tackle this problem.
I am not yet out of debt - but thanks to the steps in this book I am on the path and feeling hope and confidence that, this time, I can do it.
5 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is a really good guide - makes you challenge your thoughts and gives good sound advice on how to make some changes. Highly recommended.
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52 of 52 people found the following review helpful
Got me out of debt!
2 Aug 2000
Format:Paperback
I was given this book by my mother when I said at one point that no matter how much I made I seemed to owe even more. My husband and I owed so many thousands of dollars on high-interest credit cards that I thought 25 years would pass and we would still not be out of debt. It is now three years later and not only are we out of debt, but we have a good start on retirement savings, an emergency cushion in the bank, and we are about to buy our first house -- all things that I never thought we'd be able to do. This book first describes different types of money "addictions" (you will absolutely see yourself here), and then gives you an easy-to-follow step-by-step program to get you started on your way to being fiscally responsible. I followed the program diligently and found the exercises very helpful in keeping focused, not just on my spending but on how to use our money to make Life Changes....not just home improvements. I really can't recommend this book highly enough -- it truly saved my life.
48 of 49 people found the following review helpful
Outstanding Look at Money Addictions and Their Cure
26 Jun 2000
Format:Paperback
This book is based on a seminar series designed to work with those who have obsessions and addictions about money that are harmful. Unlike most books that address the psychological roots of money problems, this one develops a detailed recovery plan over 13 weeks that builds on programs for overcoming other addictions like alcoholism. Even if you don't have a full-scale addiction to money, you can use this program to diagnose and improve the places where you are misfocused in your thinking about and use of money.
One of the many valuable insights that I took away from this book was that money addictions are often associated with other addictions like alcoholism and excessive gambling. Many people will solve those addictions with great difficulty, but still find their lives missing something due to their money addictions.
One of the strengths of this book is found in the many diagnostic lists that can help you assess whether you are having or have had problems with money addiction. I certainly found myself in several chapters, and that provided useful insights to me.
Here are some of the categories to watch out for: Compulsive spending (getting an emotional rush from buying things); Big deal chasing (fantasies providing encouragement for irresponsible use of time and financial resources, and the related problems of workaholism to get more money and avoid intimacy with one's family and friends); Maintenance money focus (doing work just for the money); Poverty addiction (seeing sainthood in having little money and less spending); and Co-dependency (where your relationships are based on providing money for someone with a money addiction).
The 13 week recovery program is marvelous. I was very impressed. It starts with undoing your stalled thinking about money, and bit by bit helps you establish new and better habits about money.
The program builds a lot on measuring how you are spending and getting money, focuses you on stopping the worst of your bad habits (like taking on more debt), and gradually refocuses you on important human issues like self-esteem, compassion, peace, spirituality, and reintroducing hope into your life. This stallbusting approach is one that should work for anyone who has hit bottom and truly wants to reform. This is a book that everyone should read and use to evaluate themselves. It should also be shared with children. Money addiction is often passed down from parents to children through sharing bad habits learned in the home. If a friend shares with you that they are in a bad way financially and need help, give them a copy of the book. It will probably do them more good than giving them money that they won't be able to repay.
Live a higher quality of life from learning the lessons of this book!
38 of 38 people found the following review helpful
Jumping in with both feet
7 Sep 2000
Format:Paperback
There are many books that will help you become financially stable. This book is different from the rest. Money Drunk gives you an overview of the addictive personalities that money can bring out even if you have not taken a drink. It is a step by step process that over the years has worked for many people.
Relating the step by step process to money speaks only to the format of the book. The Solution is a 90-day program that will bring you on your feet in no time.
A strategy discussed in the book for balancing the budget is to divide your income into 3 parts, 1/3 for the past, 1/3 for the present, and 1/3 for the future. This is a strategy that I am still evaluating and experimenting with.
Julia Cameron's approach is gentle and reassuring. A great book for jumping into financial management with both feet.
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