Published: Oct. 31, 2011
Words: 24042 (approximate)
Language: English

Ebook short description

The tips, tricks and methods used to live on less than $500 a month.

Extended description

This book is the culmination of over 10 years of frugal living experience. The author uses these tricks to live well on less than $500 a month. As a result of these experiences she is able to live entirely off her writing income (with no food stamps or government assistance) and be a stay-at-home single mother for her child.

Sections include:

Housing... (Read more) This book is the culmination of over 10 years of frugal living experience. The author uses these tricks to live well on less than $500 a month. As a result of these experiences she is able to live entirely off her writing income (with no food stamps or government assistance) and be a stay-at-home single mother for her child.

Sections include:

Housing
Auto
Groceries (includes raising food)
Computers (includes where to find free and inexpensive software)
Television (includes watching shows online for free)
Books (lots of links to free ebooks and how to search for free ebooks online)
Music (includes links for free music sites)
Clothing
Cleaning tips and recipes
Personal care tips and recipes
Furniture
Thrift Shops
Yard Sales
Jobs and self-employment
And much more

The author has drawn upon her extensive experience to create a thorough, practical guide to living on less without the fluff found in many frugal living books. Instead you will find a concise method you can implement to save thousands of dollars over the course of a year.

The author even notes that she could live on about half of what she actually does and explains how in simple terms. If you are seriously interested in saving money this is one book you do not want to miss.
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Tags

money, thrift, finances, simplicity, work at home, frugality, single parents, live on less, live cheap, shoestring living, live on shoestring

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Review by: Mike Hatz on Feb. 06, 2012 :
When one reads such a book as "The Shoestring Girl", one looks for the one thing that cannot be faked: the Voice of Experience. Annie Brewer has compiled a blueprint for living a life of thrift and freedom from the bondage of "stuff" that has evidently been based on her wealth of real-world personal experience. More than a dry, lifeless "how-to" list for living under one's means, "The Shoestring Girl" also gives realistic, plausible, and practical reasons WHY shoestring living is so liberating and satisfying, while reminding us frugal types that making/growing your own 'everything' can actually defeat the purpose of lo-maintenance living by the very impracticality of such endeavors. Perhaps best of all, Ms. Brewer reminds her readers that Shoestring Living can either be a temporary damage-control mode during which the person who's fallen upon hard times can survive until back on their feet, or an almost Gypsy-like way of life. I look forward to Ms. Brewer's other titles, as "Shoestring" has so much to teach even a lifelong skinflint like myself that there's always a way to save even one more unnecessarily-spent penny!
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: Juan Ortega on Dec. 12, 2011 : (no rating)
Great book, because there is a ton of good advise in it that you can start including in your life to live a free and happier life. I will be buying more of her books.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: J.A. Gort on Nov. 23, 2011 :
All,

Good book, I liked it very much.
The text about the dentale care was used three times, I think she made a copy past error.

Kind regards,
J.A. Gort.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

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