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

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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Capstone (17 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1906465142
  • ISBN-13: 978-1906465148
  • Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 21.6 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 172,148 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"This work provides a year′s worth of money–saving, life–improving tips...about how you can actually have and enjoy more" (Dorset Society, January 2009)


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Turn your fortunes around with a year’s worth of money–saving, life–improving tips!

You don’t have to live like a recluse or deny yourself life’s luxuries.  By spending less, you really can have more. It’s not just about saving the odd penny when you’re doing your grocery shopping – it’s about rediscovering the truly valuable things in life.  Discover the power of less and create more time in your life to find the kind of happiness that money just can’t buy.

From simple tactics such as never shopping on an empty stomach, to lesser–known tricks like importing goods to pay for your holiday, every tip will save you between £5 and £50,000.

You will find 365 practical tips in the following areas to help you live on less, spend less, and be far richer and happier for it!

  1. Shopping
  2. Your house and your home
  3. More ways of saving or making money whenever you buy or sell property  
  4. Your personal finances and savings
  5. Cut the cost of necessary household expenses
  6. Food and drink
  7. Cutting out unnecessary, excessive expenditure
  8. Kids, schools and universities
  9. Cars and travel
  10. Leisure, pleasure and going on holiday
  11. The kind of happiness that money just can′t buy
  12. Creating more time in your life
  13. Your ′job′ or your ′work′
  14. Moving overseas

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1.0 out of 5 stars The Spend Less Handbook: 365 Tips for a Better Quality of Life While Actually Spending Less, 3 Jan 2009
I found this book to be rather dull, patronising and very one sided, the information and advice offered can be found easily on the Internet for FFFRREEEE.

The authors view on private and public schools was simplistic and very one way street she says that she doesn't have an opinion on private v public but then goes on to say that 'if you want your child to have a posh accent and be cultured send them to elocution lessons and teach them Helen of Troy yourself. Also her solution to living in an area with bad schools is to sell up and move to a better area...there you go problem solved job done.

Some of the information was good and spot on but much of it from a bygone age that as much as we would like it not to be is bygone. Life was simple then when there was less of everything and the world was so such a different place.

For me this book is written for people with OK to good money who want to have that bit more and not be so money flabby and not for people with hardly any really stretched or really struggling who want to do more then treading water. It doesn't do what it says on the tin on the cover

Horses for courses I returned it and got my money back and saved my cash I will stick to the library and frugal and Zen money websites.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Genuinely good tips in a format that works, 4 Nov 2008
By Lola Cordoso (Brighton) - See all my reviews
There's a lot of these "beat the credit crunch titles" out there at the moment and some are more novelty than others - this isn't! It's got a fun cover and it's written in a light-hearted but factual way and it is far far far from gimmicky. All sorts of tips for purchases large and small as well as lifestyle tactics to keep you firmly and sustainably in the black
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book., 7 April 2009
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I really enjoyed this book. It really does make you think before buying more stuff. I read some of it to my eighteen year old son and he said it made good sense what she had to say.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Right on the money
Well, as I read this book it laid out all MY thoughtless, automatic behaviours which have been taking my cash for decades. Read more
Published 4 months ago by E. C. Cormode

1.0 out of 5 stars Patronising and pointless
One of the tips in this book is "try Top Shop for clothes, they have some surprisingly good quality stuff"! Read more
Published 7 months ago by Piglet

5.0 out of 5 stars Food for thought
I really found this book thought-provoking. The money-saving tips are so-so, but the commentary on how society encourages us to spend unnecessarily was really worthwhile. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Mim

2.0 out of 5 stars Flippant frippery for those who are wealthy enough to make lifestyle choices.
My partner bought this because of the credit crunch and because I might be made redundent soon. If you are looking for serious advice on how to survive the current crisis, then I... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Ms. A. J. Dunlop

1.0 out of 5 stars Spend Less - don't buy this book
Silly, vapid, patronising, trite - the credit crunch & recession seem to have spawned a rash of useless books which state the blindingly obvious and this is possibly the most... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Marand

3.0 out of 5 stars Dissapointed
Although this is a good book it is really just a second edition of the new spend less revolution which I had bought two years ago. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Mark Gahagan

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