Product Description

In today's economy, almost everyone is struggling to keep up with rising prices on just about everything. It is increasingly difficult for the average family to make ends meet while paying for necessities like Food, Clothing, Shelter, Utilities, Transportation and more. People are trying to find ways to thrive in uncertain times. Middle class workers are increasingly becoming part of the working poor and some are even losing their homes because they can no longer afford to pay for housing on their present incomes. A brand new book by Madeline Clive, "Pinch A Penny Till It Screams: Everything You Wanted To Know About Frugal Survival Skills But Didn't Know Where To Look", tells readers how to live well on less money. The author believes in living well without spending much. This book will put you on the fast track to penny pinching without suffering and deprivation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #923765 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 83 pages

About the Author
The author has been a life-long resident of Minneapolis, MN. Through lots of trial and error, exploring multiple job options, and many financial ups and downs, she has found many ways to save money and live comfortably. In this book she gathers these experiences along with the advice of others and shares them with you.

Customer Reviews

Disappointment
Highly disappointing. No substance. It was a book filled with references to other books. Wish I had bought one of those instead!!!!

waste of money
this was a tiny book, that didnt really offer anything helpful at all. I would love to send it back and get my money back.

More of the same
As a devotee of the classic "Tightwad Gazette" and other frugality guidebooks, I'm sorry to say I was not very impressed with Clive's work. Despite a great title and the author's good intentions, there's really not a whole lot of new things here. One of the few "new" ideas was how she found a cheap beater of a pickup truck to use as she started a weekend landscape business. However entertaining this anecdote is, it might not have any relevance to the majority of readers. Pretty much everything else is more fully described in other books, such as the above-mentioned works by Amy Dacyczyn; Living Cheap News by Larry Roth; America's Cheapest Family Gets You Right On the Money by Steve and Annette Economides and their kids; and Mary Hunt's various "Cheapskate" and "Tiptionary" books, to name a few; those titles would serve as better guides to someone first getting started in becoming more frugal. Clive's writing is clumsy and stilted and few innovative new strategies were presented. As frugal living books go, I thought this one was strictly amateur. Bottom line: although the author seems likeable enough, "Pinch A Penny" was not as helpful as I'd hoped it would be.