Penny Pinching: How to Lower Your Everyday Expenses Without Lowering Your Standard of Living [Mass Market Paperback]

Barbara Simmons (Author), Lee Simmons (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 5, 1999

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.

Editorial Reviews

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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of 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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Bantam (January 5, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553573675
• ISBN-13: 978-0553573671
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,894,797 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really helps you save money, November 15, 2004

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Susan Phillips "booksmart" (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Penny Pinching (Mass Market Paperback)

This book has helped us save money in many different areas. Penny Pinching has also explained insurances, mortgages, how to save electricity, how to save at the grocery store, and so many more everyday items.

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very resourceful information., April 1, 1999

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This review is from: Penny Pinching: How to Lower Your Everyday Expenses Without Lowering Your Standard of Living (Mass Market Paperback)

I found this book to be very useful in curving spending habits. It contains a great many useful web sites. It"s a keeper for anyone interested in saving some money.