Pinch A Penny Till It Screams: Everything You Wanted To Know About Frugal Survival Skills But Didn't Know Where To Look
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Highly disappointing. No substance. It was a book filled with references to other books. Wish I had bought one of those instead!!!!
this was a tiny book, that didnt really offer anything helpful at all. I would love to send it back and get my money back.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Waste of time.
The title is catchy but that is it!!!! What is with this useless book!!!! This penny pincher list is common sense stuff. Good thing I always read a book first from library.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Avoid This Book; A Tree Died For This?
What a disappointment! This book is paltry – 60 pages written in type so big that a blind person could see it. There are many other books that are much more useful.
As a devotee of the classic “Tightwad Gazette” and other frugality guidebooks, I’m sorry to say I was not very impressed with Clive’s work. Despite a great title and the author’s good intentions, there’s really not a whole lot of new things here. One of the few “new” ideas was how she found a cheap beater of a pickup truck to use as she started a weekend landscape business. However entertaining this anecdote is, it might not have any relevance to the majority of readers. Pretty much everything else is more fully described in other books, such as the above-mentioned works by Amy Dacyczyn; Living Cheap News by Larry Roth; America’s Cheapest Family Gets You Right On the Money by Steve and Annette Economides and their kids; and Mary Hunt’s various “Cheapskate” and “Tiptionary” books, to name a few; those titles would serve as better guides to someone first getting started in becoming more frugal. Clive’s writing is clumsy and stilted and few innovative new strategies were presented. As frugal living books go, I thought this one was strictly amateur. Bottom line: although the author seems likeable enough, “Pinch A Penny” was not as helpful as I’d hoped it would be.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Practical tactics and strategies for a more financially astute approach to living well without spending much to do so
Pinch A Penny Till It Screams: Everything You Wanted To Know About Frugal Survival Skills But Didn’t Know Where To Look by Madeline Clive is an informed and informative collection…