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The New Spend Less Revolution: 365 Tips for a Better Quality of Life While Actually Spending Less (Paperback)

by Rebecca Ash (Author)
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  • Paperback: 250 pages
  • Publisher: Harriman House Publishing (30 May 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1897597851
  • ISBN-13: 978-1897597859
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.4 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 270,529 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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This book is about how you can live on less, spend less, and yet be far richer and happier for it. That is not to say that this is a book about going without, living the life of an ascetic monk or never succumbing to the desire to buy a Paul Smith shirt or a plasma TV. In fact, this book is about how you can actually have and enjoy more in your life than you have today while dramatically reducing the financial expenditure it takes to achieve it. By spending less you really can have more. Right now, you may be feeling weighed down by the endless expenses and financial worries that can dominate our lives. We enjoy a larger abundance of material goods and wealth than we have ever had before. Yet worrying about money is still the single biggest cause of stress - a condition that affects over a million people in the UK and accounts for 1 in 4 visits to a doctor's surgery. The good news, however, is that you can choose to resist the imperative to grow richer and richer, heavier and heavier, yet increasingly hassled and dissatisfied. You do not have to succumb to the pressure to forever earn more, spend more and pay more for everything. You can substitute the clutter of excessive possessions and expenses with a new and elegant simplicity that allows you to appreciate the power of less. By taking on a new attitude to money and possessions, you can go from feeling as if you are leaking money every time you leave the house to feeling immensely wealthy, from feeling unsure about whether you can make ends meet to having the pleasure of always having spare money and savings in the bank. In some ways, this is calling for only a small shift in the way you live, yet it is a small shift that can have an enormous impact on your life. Most of the 101 tips in this book can help save you the odd GBP20, GBP50 or GBP200 a year. Some could help make you GBP50,000 richer right away. Others could serve as a complete breakthrough in helping you rethink, reorder or re-prioritise your life.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Some fair points, but some very opinionated advice, 13 Mar 2007
The book is in three stages, the problem, the solution and the tactics.
I find "The Problem" goes on and on about things, and is somewhat depressing. I like things written concisely if possibly, rather than being written at length.
The solution offers 7 great mottos. However, again they are discussed at some length, but not excessive.
As for the tactics, I have to say I strongly disagree with some of them. There is definite advice against personal pensions in the book - I am not sure how the author considers herself qualified to offer such advice.
And another tip is to get a job with the government. Again, I am not sure if the author has ever worked for the government herself. From my experience, having worked for the government, I feel that this tip could trigger a very heated debate.
I also observe there is a piece of information with respect to interest paid on a mortgage over 25 years. While I would not be allowed to say it is incorrect, I would advise the reader to do their own calculation and see if they agree with it.
With the strong opinions without justification, and my disagreement with the mathematics of the author, I cannot take this book seriously.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars A disappointing read, 2 Mar 2009
I was incredibly disappointed in this book. Being a "born-again" budgetter I was really looking forward to reading this for a bit of renewed motivation. Some fair points in the earlier sections although I felt it went on a bit. I thought the "tactics" section was weak - if you visit web-sites like Money Saving Expert there's very little new. Even if you don't - using Charity Shops is hardly a revolutionary idea? Also I felt there was a bit of a contradiction in talking about carbon footprints in one section then suggesting taking a long haul flight to get cheap hand-made suits in the next.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great for a longer term budgeter, 12 Nov 2007
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I liked this book because it looked at things on a much longer term than other books i have read of this type. It reminds you to take a step back once in a while and question why you spend on what you do. Its reminds you that the simple, free (or cheaper) things in life often bring the greater pleasure. I did, at times, find this book a bit soft and fluffy but on the whole I enjoyed it and have changed the things I consider when spending. This book sells an ideology of a simple, more content life and warns of the dangers of over consuption.
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Written in rather an eccentric style for this type of book, it is like discussing things with a friend. Recommended
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