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Become Totally Debt-Free in Five Years or Less

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I have read a lot of books about debt recovery, personal finances, budgeting, and saving, and this book has been by far the worst. To begin with, regardless of how the title sounds, the author doesn't actually give any tips for how to organize or budget in order to reduce the debt that you currently have. The book is basically a list of money saving tips, which would be fine if the tips were useful and applicable to ones daily life. Unfortunately those that Ms. Gabriel shares are neither.

Her tips range from ultra-restrictive suggestions such as never go into a mall or retail store again to tips that would only apply to specific and seldom occuring (at least I hope) situations such as decide not to get tattoos or don't throw lavish funerals for your loved ones to just down right impractical suggestions such as move in with family or friends for a year and rent out your house so that you can double what you are paying on your mortgage. If you are looking for a book of practical, manageable money saving tips that you can apply to your everyday life then this is definitely not that book.

Save your money and skip this book. As stated in other reviews, the title of the book is misleading. The author mentions here and there how she got out of debt but there was nothing for the reader to grasp onto and use as a course of action. The tid-bits of information she gives for saving money are obvious and boring if the reader has already been reading books on the "get out of debt" subject.

Become Totally Debt-Free In Five Years Or Less: Pay Off Your Mortgage, Car, Credit Cards, And More! is a compendium of practical, effective, coherent, "user friendly" advice for anyone seeking to emancipate themselves from the burden of debt and former money-management mistakes. Gwendolyn Gabriel shows how to determine if you are a candidate for bankruptcy debt relief; how to end the credit-card cycle; turn your house into a money-maker; lower your utility bills; cut eating expenses in half; resolve financially incompatible marital woes, divorce inexpensively, save money during holidays, prepare your own will, save on planned vacations, and much, much more. If you want to be debt free and no longer bleeding your earnings through interest payments, late fees, and financial waste -- begin with a thoroughly reading of Gwendolyn Gabriel's Become Totally Debt-Free In Five Years Or Less.

I have read this book from cover to cover and I believe this is the most wonderful financial book that I have ever read. One of the greatest things about this book is that it is organized in such a manner that I can reference back to any money-saving idea I need to know about at the moment, without re-reading the whole book. I also love this book because the author appears to be a regular person who was in debt and wrote about how she got out--now she's helping others by the use of her book. I would love to meet this author because she seems down-to-earth and has already helped me reconsider the way I look at money. As a result, I have already cut up two of my six credit cards, made many other money-saving improvements and I am on my way to becoming debt-free. Gosh, I love this book.

I purchased this book a little over two years ago when I first saw the author on television. Since then, my husband and I have referred to it daily to find ways to save money. If we keep it up, we should be out of debt in two more years. So, we both think that this is the best book that we have ever read about getting out of debt. If this author puts out a second edition, we hope to be the first to buy it. Thank you author for writing such a wonderful book!!!

Gwen did a great job of making budgeting money interesting. She enlightens and gives readers very useful suggestions on effective money management and how to become debt-free. Being one of the first to read this book was a pleasure!

America is known as the land of plenty. We should say the land of "plenty of debt". This book has practical solutions for living debt free that readers can apply to their individual lives. Living and Living "Debt Free" are two different states of mind. In a time of economic uncertainty these basic principles are a path to opening economic success for all who read, comprehend and apply this time tested information. This book should only be read if the reader makes a committment to become debt free.

This book is great for the person just beginning to explore the idea of eliminating debt and maximizing their money. My husband and I have been working to get out of debt for the past year and already practice many of the suggestions in this book. But I took away several new tidbits of helpful info. The chapters and sections are brief, so it's easy to skim the book in a night or two. I particularly liked the chapters on insurance and wills, subjects we're just beginning to explore.

If you want to get out of debt and make a million bucks, write a book on how to get out of debt and make a million bucks. This stinks. Dave Ramsey is the only way to go folks.

This book offered many interesting tips. Although I didn't agree with some of them, I think the author did a nice job.