Product Description

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #62110 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Review
"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)

Customer Reviews

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

Genuinely good tips in a format that works
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

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. I've found it's encouraged me to re-think why I make purchases, and it's given me the confidence to feel that I can say no to the constant keeping up with the Joneses.