Debt Proof Your Holidays [Paperback]

Mary Hunt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1998

Enjoy a holiday to cherish-- without breaking your budget!

If the holidays bring you a little something you don't want-- debt!-- stop worrying! The most famous cheapskate in the world, Mary Hunt, is here to help. With wisdom, wit, and fabulous money-saving secrets, she delivers family fun without spending a fortune. So put away your credit card and feel the joy of the season without money headaches.

Discover how to:

* Beautifully decorate your home with materials that cost pennies...or nothing at all
* Wrap in original, fun, and appealing ways without expensive store-bought paper and ribbons
* Create gifts that are truly special, and appreciated more than a store-bought item
* Purchase a "must-have" present without using credit
* Prepare a feast with mouthwatering money-saving recipes
* Capture the laughter and love of the holidays with free activities for the whole family
* Change unwritten gift-giving (and card-sending) rules into exchanges that are based on caring...not dollar bills

Plus, you'll get the best reader's letters and most-requested columns from The Cheapskate Monthly on how to have a new year with your bills paid in full!

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Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Mary Hunt is a self-avowed reformed spendthrift and credit-card junkie. When she and her family of four found themselves in $100,000 in debt and her husband suddenly lost his job, it was time to tighten the belt.

Refusing to sacrifice her quality of life, Ms. Hunt systematically put to work every tip, trick and technique to turn her financial disaster around.

Translating that experience into her immensely popular newsletter, The Cheapskate Monthly, Ms. Hunt now tells you all you need to know to turn around your own finances for good.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Broadman & Holman Publishers (October 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805416781
• ISBN-13: 978-0805416787
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,273,912 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Debt-Proof Living founder Mary Hunt has authored 18 books on money management and becoming debt-free. Her nationally-syndicated newspaper column, "Everyday Cheapskate," appears in newspapers across the country and is also distributed electronically to opted-in subscribers every weekday. She is the money editor at Woman's Day magazine and is a regular guest on national radio and television shows.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to read, easy to apply...., October 14, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Debt Proof Your Holidays (Mass Market Paperback)

Mary Hunt, editor and publisher of The Cheapskate Monthly newsletter, has taken up the challenge of helping her readers find ways to celebrate the holidays without facing the New Year strapped with unnecessary consumer-related debt. Hunt takes her readers through a step-by-step plan for a debt-free holiday season. By examining personal values and attitudes, she enables us to identify what we really want from the holidays. In her own words, she wants to help us celebrate "Christmas by choice, not by chance." Included are numerous practical ideas for saving money at the holidays on everything from food to gifts to family fun to decorations. Whether you're just looking for further frugal ideas for the upcoming holiday season, or you're truly dreading another after-holidays debt hang-over, "Debt-Proof Your Holidays" will be beneficial to read. So put away your credit card and prepare to have the happiest holiday ever!

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous!, October 8, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Debt Proof Your Holidays (Mass Market Paperback)

A delightful and practical resource. After reading this little gem straight through in one evening I am so motivated and inspired to change the way I've always "done" Christmas in the past--with a stack of credit cards. This book is packed with hundreds of reasonable and do-able alternatives to creating holiday debt. What a gift!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Useful, easy read but didn't apply to me, March 8, 2004

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Jayme "jchristine26" (Plano, TX United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Debt Proof Your Holidays (Mass Market Paperback)

I love Mary Hunt's Debt Proof Your Marriage. So I thought this would be great too. However, I already know how to make crafty things and create gift baskets. I know how to shop day-after sales. My Christmas ornaments have been slowly collected. Many issues she deals with seem to be those who regularly go out and buy total house decorations every year--I don't. I expected better suggestions than shop all year, make homemade gifts, etc. I did really enjoy the chapter where she suggests funding sources for your Christmas fund. She had great ideas I never dreamed of--that made the book worth it to me. It's a good book that was useful but just disappointing in some areas.