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7 Great Books About Thrift And Frugality

Original: 7 Great Books About Thrift And Frugality

Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Mon, 2009-10-12 09:12.
1. In CHEAP We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue

What makes this book fun as well as informative is how the author shows how wasteful we have become as a society in the last forty years. She is also smart because she shares with the reader the difference between being wise and being foolish. Like not eating extreme out of date canned food, and learning the signs of food that shouldn't be saved or eaten. Like temperature sensitive foods, be it seafood that smells spoiled and probably is, which is needed info is you are into the freegan movement also called dumpster diving.

2. Whatever Happened to Thrift?: Why Americans Don't Save and What to Do about It

It's a much bemoaned fact that Americans who fail to sock money away in savings accounts and investments risk severe hardship once they hit retirement age or fall on tough times. What's far less obvious is how to turn these overspenders into savers. Wilcox draws insights from economics and psychology to tackle this challenge in his slim but sensible volume. His analysis of our prodigal ways is slight—a historian or cultural critic out a Salary: Learning How to Li

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