Penny Pinching: How to Lower Your Everyday Expenses Without Lowering Your Standard of Living - Softcover

Simmons, Barbara; Simmons, Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553573675 ISBN 13: 9780553573671

Publisher: Bantam, 1999

Synopsis

This fourth revised edition of Penny Pinching is expanded and updated to include even more penny pinching tips--whether you are at the supermarket, buying a new car or major appliance, planning a vacation, purchasing eyeglasses, shopping for designer labels, remodeling or maintaining your home, dining out, getting a prescription filled, or setting up a general family budget, this book covers it all. This new edition not only offer more information in all the areas covered in the original book, but it also adds some hot new tips for warehouse clubs, fax machines and cellular phones, software programs for your home computer, advice on 401 (k) plans, planning ahead financially for your child's college education, and more. All financial statistics, addresses, phone numbers, and other specifics have all been checked and updated in this new 1997 edition.

About this title

From the Publisher:

The book that helped start the frugality revolution of the 1990s is back--and better than ever. You saw the author slash supermarket bills on Oprah Winfrey. Now discover for yourself hundreds of easy-to-follow, cost-cuttin tips--including dozens of new entries as well as updated addresses, phone numbers, and store listings added especially for this edition--that will help you lower your expenses in just about every spending category... without lowering your standard of living.

Review:

This third revised edition tells how to lower everyday living expenses without cutting so deeply that one's standard of living is compromised. How? By reducing insurance, holding down utility costs, and making smart shopping choices at alternative stores. This is packed with numerous suggestions on any given subject, which provides consumers with many alternatives. -- Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0553573675
• ISBN 13: 9780553573671
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 272