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Summary: Everyone can relate to MsSpent!
Review: ...I don't make enough money to invest in more than my 401k, but she made me realize I can be happy with what I have and still enjoy life! I especially liked her chapter about 'when your means are not enough' because in the world I live in... they aren't! Thank you MsSpent!
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Summary: This "Conscious Spending" Guide is Terrific!
Review: Deborah Knuckey's "Ms Spent Money Guide" offers a very practical model for spending (and living) consciously, to take full advantage of your financial resources. I think her paradigm is extraordinarily helpful. We all think we know how we are spending our money, but few of us ever step back (beyond a Quicken report) to analyze truly whether the way we are spending our money is enriching our lives the way we would like. Ms. Knuckey's "consious spending" model is easy to understand and to apply day-to-day. The book is also very fun to read--she has a terrific sense of humor, and her logic is quite simple to follow. (Ms. Knuckey was delightful in her appearance on Oprah this week--she's very down-to-earth, and her book shows it). I highly recommend this book for anyone like me who isn't an abusive shopper/spender, but nevertheless hasn't paid enough attention to what I've bought over the years (thus resulting in some items in the garage, the basement and the closet that I never possibly would have bought if I had been spending "consciously"). Reading this book quickly and keeping Ms. Spent's model in the back of my mind has already started to help me avoid spending mistakes.
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Summary: This "Conscious Spending" Guide is Terrific!
Review: Deborah Knuckey's "Ms Spent Money Guide" offers a very practical model for spending (and living) consciously, to take full advantage of your financial resources. I think her paradigm is extraordinarily helpful. We all think we know how we are spending our money, but few of us ever step back (beyond a Quicken report) to analyze truly whether the way we are spending our money is enriching our lives the way we would like. Ms. Knuckey's "consious spending" model is easy to understand and to apply day-to-day. The book is also very fun to read--she has a terrific sense of humor, and her logic is quite simple to follow. (Ms. Knuckey was delightful in her appearance on Oprah this week--she's very down-to-earth, and her book shows it). I highly recommend this book for anyone like me who isn't an abusive shopper/spender, but nevertheless hasn't paid enough attention to what I've bought over the years (thus resulting in some items in the garage, the basement and the closet that I never possibly would have bought if I had been spending "consciously"). Reading this book quickly and keeping Ms. Spent's model in the back of my mind has already started to help me avoid spending mistakes.
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Summary: Enlightening
Review: Everyone should read this book to get a better handle on their finances. It is very easy read with realistic techniques to managing your money.
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Summary: Financial book for people who dislike money issues
Review: Having read several personal finance books over the past couple of years,(mostly on the recommendations of friends and often best sellers), and finding most to be either a chore to wade through or filled with fluff and little substance, ("couldn't he have made all of his points in one brief chapter?"), it was refreshing to read the Ms. Spent Money Guide, (although I thought it might be specificly for women - it wasn't). This was the most useful, well structured and I would say enlightened volume I've read to date...plus it was actually a pleasure to read!
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Summary: Great way to rethink your money
Review: I have the hardback edition of this book and love it - it still sits on my desk and I refer to it a fair bit. I like the way the author realizes that the eky to managing spending is more psychological than logical - and she gives easy to follow solid advice about how to get out of your own way and get into good habits.My advice: if you want to get more for your money - Buy it!
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Summary: Ms. Spent Is Right On The Money!!
Review: I recently saw Deborah Knuckey on Oprah, and her appearance was fantastic! In fact, that is why I bought her book. Everything she said was quite true,and the best part about her book is that it is not a budget book or a "scrimp and save" type plan. She encourages people to align their money with their values. If buying lunch everyday is what makes you happy, then do it. But, if the $5.00 per day you spend is taking away from something you would rather enjoy - like a vacation at the end of the year - then try to find out where you can put your money to make yourself personally satisfied. I also enjoyed the fact that Knuckey never tells you precisely what to do with your money. She simply encourages you to realize and understand exactly where it all goes. I know I spend money, and then at the end of the week, I wonder exactly what I did with it. Knuckey encourages you to be proactive and fully understand that you spend your own money and should track it accordingly. Her advice about retirement plans also helped me. I am in my twenties, and I have never given much thought to my life at the age of 65, but now I realize that I can retire a millionare by investing one hundred dollars or less somewhere else, instead of buying things I don't necessarily want or need. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to become a conscious spender and try to make their money work for them, while remaining happy and enjoying life at the same time. Thanks for the advice Ms. Spent!
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Summary: Great way to rethink your money
Review: Many book are interesting to read, and then you forget all about them. Not "The MsSpent Money Guide," which I refer to over and over again. It is a book that has changed my life. Most of us feel helpless before ubiquitous money problems. Deborah Knuckey's book teaches you that you can be in charge of your financial welfare, that you are the architect of your future, and that you can be as well off moneywise as you want to be. She says, "Why spend so much of your life working if you don't use your earning in a way that makes you ahppy? Even if you love your job, most work is siimply not that much fun that we'd do it purely for the joy of it. So take the payment for your work and put it to your own best use." Knuckey believes that each of us has different life values, and it is foolish to go along with everyone else's. What mattters, she writes, is that your spending fit your own needs and not that of the Joneses. Some people like fine clothes, others could care less what they wear. Some of us enjoy eating in fine restaurants, others prefer cooking at home.Whatever it is that you enjoy, that is what you should be spending your money on. What matters is not how much money you have, but that it is invested in what will make you happy. Deborah Knuckey will teach you haow to do it. Don't miss reading this book, if you want to enjoy life to the fullest.
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Summary: Motivation to NOT MsSpend
Review: This book fills the gap in the personal finance market because it recognizes something that others haven't seen: the reason so many of us manage our money poorly is that it sounds too hard to manage it well. Yes, I know I should spend less, and yes, I know I should save more - but why don't I, and how can I change? I found this book had some good ideas about how to motivate myself to WANT to make the changes that I have known for years that I SHOULD make. Though some people can control their spending through pure logic (like the writers of the pretty nasty sounding reviews below - no wonder they did not put their full name to the reviews!), it has never worked for me. Deborah Knuckey also has some good tips and ideas that make sense and are presented in a fresh and light way. Too many books impose such tough restrictions that I end up reading them and going on a shopping splurge because I feel so bad about myself afterwards. I feel like someone finally understands that this is not easy and cutting down on all spending is a recipe for failure. This is the perfect starter book if you are trying to get your spending under control. Now that I am beginning to save more, I may revisit some of the books on investing I have owned for years but never read.
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Summary: Motivation to NOT MsSpend
Review: This book fills the gap in the personal finance market because it recognizes something that others haven't seen: the reason so many of us manage our money poorly is that it sounds too hard to manage it well. Yes, I know I should spend less, and yes, I know I should save more - but why don't I, and how can I change? I found this book had some good ideas about how to motivate myself to WANT to make the changes that I have known for years that I SHOULD make. Though some people can control their spending through pure logic (like the writers of the pretty nasty sounding reviews below - no wonder they did not put their full name to the reviews!), it has never worked for me. Deborah Knuckey also has some good tips and ideas that make sense and are presented in a fresh and light way. Too many books impose such tough restrictions that I end up reading them and going on a shopping splurge because I feel so bad about myself afterwards. I feel like someone finally understands that this is not easy and cutting down on all spending is a recipe for failure. This is the perfect starter book if you are trying to get your spending under control. Now that I am beginning to save more, I may revisit some of the books on investing I have owned for years but never read.
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