Title: The Beardstown Ladies' Guide to Smart Spending for Big Savings: How to Save for a Rainy Day Without Sacrificing Your Lifestyle
Publisher: Hyperion
Publication Date: 1997
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0786862653
ISBN 13: 9780786862658
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

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The best-selling authors of The Beardstown Ladies' Common-sense Investment Guide explain how to turn minimal investments into maximum returns by saving money in such areas as health care, home ownership, taxes, utilities, travel, banking and credit, insurance, and more.

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The two previous bestsellers by the "Ladies" dealt with commonsense stock-market investing. Here they tell how to economize on everything from baby cribs to cemetery plots to have more money to invest. Their no-nonsense text, sprinkled with personal anecdotes, systematically ferrets out money-saving angles on weddings (don't splurge), mortgages (don't overpay) and new-car buying (don't) and divulges income tax secrets "the rich already know." The Ladies deal sympathetically but firmly with those two super bugaboos of modern life-credit card spending and skyrocketing health care costs-and show how air travel and home-appliance buying are loaded with frugal possibilities. Finally, the far-reaching study of auto, home and life insurance, retirement planning and ways to prepare for ever-growing college costs should be particularly valuable. The budget-minded will find here all they could wish for. Author tour.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

In order to take full advantage of their 15 minutes of media fame (which, in this case, must have been calculated cumulatively), those ladies from Beardstown have come out in quick succession with three books on investing and personal finance. The Beardstown ladies' folksy shtick has already shown signs of wearing thin among business writers, who barely concealed their disdain for the ladies' first two books. The fact is that those who choose to read the ladies' simple, practical advice trust them more than they do those who make a living offering the same advice. This time, the 14 women of the Beardstown Ladies' Investment Club show how to save money and shop smart for items in the 10 categories people spend the most money on: housing, automobiles, insurance, major appliances, health care, banking and credit, travel, utilities, taxes, and children. Nothing really new here, but consumers have shown a preference for the homespun packaging. David Rouse

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