The Spenders Guide to DebtFree Livi..., Anna Newell Jones
The Spenders Guide to DebtFree Livi..., Anna Newell Jones
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The Spender's Guide to Debt-Free Living
How a Spending Fast Helped Me Get from Broke to Badass in Record Time

Author: Anna Newell Jones

Narrator: Carly Robins

Unabridged: 7 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/26/2016

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Popular blogger Anna Newell Jones of AndThenWeSaved.com delivers this self-help manifesto that reveals how a ""spending fast"" will help you get on the road to living debt-free.In 2009, young photographer Anna Newell Jones was rapidly suffocating under the weight of too much debt. An inveterate “spender,” she was in way over her head, to the tune of almost $24,000. She knew her debt was only going to get worse if she didn’t take action, but she didn’t know where to look for help. On a whim, Anna decided to go on a spending fast—an idea she heard in passing but knew little about. Creating her own method, she learned what worked and what didn’t and wrote about it on her blog, AndThenWeSaved.com. Amazingly, Anna was able to eliminate all $23,605.10 of her debt in only 15 months! She was interviewed in Forbes, Self, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, and the Chicago Tribune.Anna’s journey inspired people and showed them that they too could change the way they dealt with their own money woes. The Spender’s Guide To Debt-Free Living takes readers through a detailed step-by-step plan on how to do a Spending Fast and get out of debt, including: Creating a personalized Debt-Free Life Pledge. Understanding where your money is going when you’re in debt, and where it will come from to pay it off. Learning why putting money into a savings account before (or while) paying off debt may not be the best idea for you. Finding additional income sources and generating side gigs. Re-integrating spending into your life once you’re out of debt, so that you stay out of debt.Filled with do-it-yourself ideas, insight from experts, and tons of motivational tips and real-life practical advice, The Spender’s Guide to Debt-Free Living proves that you don’t have to win the lottery or get a new job to change your life.

About Anna Newell Jones

Anna Newell Jones is the creator of AndThenWeSaved.com, a blog that offers scrappy, down-to-earth advice on getting out of debt. She is relentlessly committed to showing how getting out of debt and living a debt-free life doesn and her husband own Newell Jones + Jones Photography and live in Denver, Colorado, with their young son.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Beth on May 04, 2016

As a twenty-something with student loan debt and a yes-I've-heard-everything-there-is-to-hear-about-budgets attitude, this book was a refreshing and convicting read. THE GOOD: The plan as a whole, even though most people probably won't go to the extreme of completely needs-only spending as she did. It......more

Goodreads review by Jen on October 19, 2016

Impractical advice for reasonable living. As a business manager, I believe her feast or famine perspective is exactly the kind of unhealthy thought pattern which gets people into serious debt in the first place. Also, the catastrophizing around student loans (income based repayment, guys. There's ve......more

Goodreads review by Inder on July 18, 2018

I wish I could give this book 3.5 stars. What I really like about it is that the author actually *gets* natural spenders. So many books about frugality are written by, ahem, naturally frugal (and maybe uptight and judgmental? just sayin') people. I don't need to read those books, I already know I ne......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on June 24, 2018

IF you have a fairly strong understanding of how home finances work, BUT you still find yourself living outside your means, AND you've been meaning to get on top of it, but it was Christmas, and then you got married, and then you had to attend your best friend's destination wedding, and there's been......more

Goodreads review by Kris on February 18, 2019

The writing style of this book is appealing - not judgmental or condescending. I didn’t relate to a lot of it because I am not much of a spender (except on books!). It is very all or nothing, which could work for some people, but I feel like that type of mentality will go right back to overspending.......more