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He’s at it again, but this time he’s not alone. America’s Ultimate Cheapskate is back with all new secrets for how to live happily below your means, á la cheapskate. For The Cheapskate Next Door, Jeff Yeager tapped his bargain-basement-brain-trust, hitting the road to interview and survey hundreds of his fellow cheapskates to divulge their secrets for living the good life on less.
Jeff reveals the 16 key attitudes about money – and life – that allow the cheapskates next door to live happy, comfortable, debt-free lives while spending only a fraction of what most Americans spend. Their strategies will change your way of thinking about money and debunk some of life’s biggest money myths. For example, you’ll learn: how to cut your food bill in half and eat healthier as a result; how your kids can get a college education without ever borrowing a dime; how to let the other guy pay for deprecation by learning the secrets of buying used, not abused; how you can save serious money by negotiating and bartering; and how – if you know where to look – there’s free stuff and free fun all around you.
The Cheapskate Next Door also features dozens of original “Cheap Shots” – quick, money saving tips that could save you more than $25,000 in a single year! Cheap Shots give you the inside scoop on:
• How to save hundreds on kids’ toys;
• What inexpensive old-fashioned kitchen appliance can save you more than $200 a year;
• How you can travel the world without ever having to pay for lodging;
• What single driving tip can save you $30,000 during your lifetime;
• Even how to save up to 40% on fine wines (and we’re not talking about the kind that comes in a box).
From simple money saving tips to truly life changing financial strategies, the cheapskates next door know that the key to financial freedom and enjoying life more is not how much you earn, but how much you spend.
Jeff Yeager is the author of The Ultimate Cheapskate’s Road Map to True Riches, and has appeared as a guest correspondent on the NBC Today Show and Discovery’s Planet Green network. He is also the author of the popular blog The Green Cheapskate, www.TheDailyGreen.com
Visit his website www.UltimateCheapskate.com
- Sales Rank: #551411 in Books
- Brand: Yeager, Jeff
- Published on: 2010-06-08
- Released on: 2010-06-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.99" h x .67" w x 5.18" l, .47 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 231 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Yeager (The Ultimate Cheapskate's Road Map to True Riches) is back with another energetic, likably eccentric lesson on living happily well below your means. Interviewing a variety of self-professed cheapskates, he finds—despite a diversity of lifestyles, backgrounds, and beliefs— common practices and philosophies when it came to money; their knowledge of how to live on less has insulated them from the economic crash. He presents their tips on frugal living in grocery shopping, entertainment, and sensible parenting, but the real value is in Yeager's persuasive argument that an onset of Spending Anxiety Disorder is good for our wallets, our communities, and the environment. If we change the way we think about want vs. need, we can focus our time and attention on the truly valuable things—family, charity, passions, the early retirement that will make enjoying them longer possible—and if we consume sparingly, thoughtfully, and fully, our possessions will not consume us. Yeager and his Miser Advisers are proof that living more frugally isn't about sacrifice—it's about making choices every day to live a better, happier, more thoughtful life with less. (July)
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From Booklist
*Starred Review* Ah, yes, belt-tightening is the procedure of the day, from how giant businesses conduct themselves to managing one’s own personal finances. It is the latter aspect of conservative spending that the author of the popular Ultimate Cheapskate’s Road Map to True Riches (2007) and of the blog Green Cheapskate addresses in this delightful—yes, delightful—guide for me, you, and everyone else. Personal finance is a universal concern, particularly in these tight economic times. It is a topic that people need to know about but still shy away from. Yeager is here to draw you in and does so easily. He does not use the term “cheapskate” in a pejorative fashion; after all, he lists himself as one and wishes that all his readers would aspire to cheapskateness. A cheapskate to him is someone who lives below his or her means and does so happily. How to spend less than you are spending now is the program he details; the amazing fact about this book is that in addition to his instructions making perfect sense, like no other book of its kind, this one can be read simply for the humor of the author’s prose. --Brad Hooper
Review
Reading THE CHEAPSKATE NEXT DOOR is like looking in the mirror on a very good hair day - I see myself and I like what I see. the mirror, of course, is the passel of stories Jeff serves up with good humor about cheapskates like me from around the country. I see myself in almost every one of his 16 Idiosyncrasies of the Cheapskate Mind. I've dump picked, cherry picked yard sales, carefully picked every purchase, always for a fraction of retail. Like my Cheapskate clan, I'm a bit smug about it all - feeling smart rather than deprived - especially in this recession that has barely affected my financial peace of mind. Jeff is the consummate troubadour for our clan. If you don't save 10 times the amount you spend on this book, you probably didn't read it.” – Vicki Robin, author of Your Money or Your Life
"I loved this book and couldn't put it down, it is an absolute must-read. Jeff puts the fun back in frugality with entertaining insights from "cheapskates" all over the country, sharing their secrets on how to live happy, less-stressful lives on the cheap…I think everyone in the country should read this book." --Stephanie Nelson, founder www.CouponMom.com and author of "The Coupon Mom's Guide to Cutting Your Grocery Bills in Half”
“Jeff Yeager has a way of unleashing the inner cheapskate in us all!” – Jean Chatzky
“I’ve written that there are three basic ways to finish rich: spend less, make more, save more. Jeff Yeager has discovered a whole class of happy Americans who pride themselves on mastering the ‘spend less’ part of the equation. The Cheapskate Next Door proves once and for all that living happily within your means is possible at practically any income.” -- David Bach #1 New York Times Bestselling author of The Automatic Millionaire and Start Late, Finish Rich
“Jeff Yeager's research and cross-country cheapskate quest uncovered a truth few Americans know: Not only can you be happy buying less stuff, you would likely be happier. Who are these people who opt out of the consuming rat race? They are The Cheapskate Next Door. For them, spending less is not about deprivation; it's about liberation. And Yeager will tell you all about them -- and their secrets -- in his usual conversational and humorous style.
A must-read for those who want to jump off the consumer treadmill and discover what's really important.” --Gregory Karp, syndicated newspaper columnist and author of Living Rich by Spending Smart and The 1-2-3 Money Plan
"Whether you are a born penny pincher or merely cheapskate-curious, you're bound to learn something from the Cheapskate Next Door." -- USA Today
“The Cheapskate Next Door” by Jeff Yeager, suggests that the simplest solution is to live substantially below your means. Let’s deal with Mr. Yeager’s book first, because it is the better of the two. One reason is that Mr. Yeager, a former executive with a nonprofit association who now writes about saving money and runs Ultimatecheapskate.com, is so amusing.
Here’s one quick example: Conceding that he may have taken the idea of skimping on new clothing too far, Mr. Yeager tells what he says is a true story about arriving early for a book signing to which he had traveled by bicycle. (Driving costs you money in gasoline and depreciation.)
“I was dressed as I usually am when I am cycling, in ratty-looking shorts and a faded T-shirt,” from a 1978 rock concert, as it turns out, he says. “I decided to take a few moments to relax before the signing, so I sat down on a park bench outside the bookstore with my trusty but tattered 10-speed” next to him.
“A nicely dressed older woman walked up to me, opened her purse and tried to hand me a $10 bill, saying, ‘You poor man, you look you could use some help.’ ”
Mr. Yeager was at that book signing promoting his previous book, “The Ultimate Cheapskate’s Road Map to True Riches.” In that one, he offered his personal money-saving tips like these: Never spend more than $1 a pound for meat at the supermarket — advice that leads him to eat such things as beef hearts and kidneys — and always rummage around in couch cushions at hotels for loose change. (“Those things are like upholstered A.T.M.’s.”)
This time around, he talks to his fellow cheapskates, a moniker they wear with pride, about their money-saving ideas. Many of their tips are clever twists on the conventional.
For example, cheapskates always refinance their homes — when it makes sense. First, they make sure the length of the new mortgage is less than the years remaining on the old one. If they have 19 years to go on their old mortgage, for example, they get a 15-year mortgage when they refinance. That way, they will own the house free and clear four years earlier. And it goes without saying that they buy substantially less house than they can afford. Not only is the purchase price less, but so are the taxes and the upkeep.
But some of the suggestions are unsettling. Mr. Yeager introduces us to people who don’t think twice about grabbing uneaten food off the adjacent restaurant table, once those diners have paid their check, and people who find nothing wrong with “Dumpster diving” for food that supermarkets have thrown away.
Mr. Yeager doesn’t judge. He uses all the examples to support his “heartfelt belief that most Americans would be happier, and the quality of their lives would actually increase, if they would spend and consume less.” -- New York Times
"Ah, yes, belt-tightening is the procedure of the day, from how giant businesses conduct themselves to
managing one’s own personal finances. It is the latter aspect of conservative spending that the author of
the popular Ultimate Cheapskate’s Road Map to True Riches (2007) and of the blog Green Cheapskate
addresses in this delightful—yes, delightful—guide for me, you, and everyone else. Personal finance is a
universal concern, particularly in these tight economic times. It is a topic that people need to know about
but still shy away from. Yeager is here to draw you in and does so easily. He does not use the term
“cheapskate” in a pejorative fashion; after all, he lists himself as one and wishes that all his readers would
aspire to cheapskateness. A cheapskate to him is someone who lives below his or her means and does so
happily. How to spend less than you are spending now is the program he details; the amazing fact about
this book is that in addition to his instructions making perfect sense, like no other book of its kind, this one
can be read simply for the humor of the author’s prose." -- Booklist, starred review
"...Jeff Yeager, the author of The Cheapskate Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americans Living Happily Below Their Means (Broadway), doesn’t care how he looks, and wants his book to bring out everyone’s “inner miser.” Believing that “money really has very little to do with true happiness,” he traveled across the country to meet likeminded skinflints, a journey he tracked on his blog, the Green Cheapskate. Everywhere he found contented families who prospered on small incomes. Parsimonious parents — loving but never lavish — let their kids know early on that they’d be paying their own way through college. Others made paper from dryer lint or stretched grocery dollars by turning dumpster scraps into canapés. All of them adhered to a strict household budget. The result of Mr. Yeager’s wanderings is a compendium of shrewd steps toward financial security that surely would work for anyone capable of obeying his principal rule: “Figure out what your take-home pay is, and then make it a point to spend less than that every month.” --New York Times
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54 of 59 people found the following review helpful.
A Money Savings Buffet!
By Dorraine Darden
Money, money, money- regardless if we share, save, horde or spend it, we must have some to live and therefore learn how to manage it wisely. The Cheapskate Next Door is a valuable guide on how to sweet talk those dollar bills into submission so they can work in our favor. This book is for young and old, rich and poor, cheapskates and spenders alike.
I especially relished Jeff Yeager's take on creating memories with our loved ones instead of stockpiling things. Cherished memories last, material stuff crumbles. He also questions how much our time is really worth and comes up with compelling answers.
The stories regarding fellow cheapskates were not only delightful, but helpful, and sometimes downright odd, which kept me highly entertained while gaining valuable insider tips on saving money. Lest you be disappointed, he adds his own colorful tales,too, uh hem...the tent, the teenagers and the rain, which really wasn't rain. You won't want to miss any of this.
And I was taken with the "Cheap Shots", clever snippets throughout the book on saving financially through various methods we might have overlooked. My favorite was the fiscal fasting, spending detox, which translates to going a whole week without whipping out our wallets. The theory behind this, Jeff says, is to use what resources we already possess and save money in the process, while also examining how and why we spend. I plan on trying this, even though my debit card is sometimes wedged in my hand like a nut in a shell.
What I've shared here is only a sampling of this financial savings buffet, laid out like the feast it is. Jeff Yeager has managed yet again to wrap a wad of dollar bills around common money sense in a humorous way, proving that saving money and consuming less of our natural resources can not only be painless, but entertaining.
Two thumbs up! A sure bet for giggling all the way to the bank.
45 of 51 people found the following review helpful.
Simple Tips, Highly Self-Referential
By Robert D. Watson
I was not one of the one-in-eight who have lost treasury bonds or unclaimed assets, nor am I one of the individuals who is able to donate blood plasma thanks to my high blood pressure. As such, I got absolutely nothing out of Mr. Yeager's most recent guide.
I read his previous book, also on saving money, which he refers to constantly throughout this new book, and I though it was basic, but pretty good. His new guide adds very little to the discussion outside of the two points that I referenced above, and takes a whole lot of material from the previous volume, so much that I can't possibly recommending reading this guide unless you treat the previous edition like a bible.
At the end of the day, Mr. Yeager has two basic tips: spend less than you earn, and don't be wasteful. The first tip is very simple, and discussed in great detail in his previous work (which again, I actually liked). The second is more thoroughly explored in this book, but which is often told through some pretty sad and disgusting vignettes from the travels and research he completed in preparation for this book. And that's where I really have a problem with this book. One story told of a man who "table poaches" at restaurants, sampling food from off the plate of other guests after they've left the table. Another mentions in passing that dinner served at a cheapskate's home was found in the dumpster of a local restaurant the night before. You should also, apparently, be keeping a "drippin's jar" which contains leftover sauces, jams, and salad dressing to be used as a marinade for meats (yuck!). Saving your ear wax and using it to polish your car is a great tip according to one of the cheapskates. He suggests that most cars can be driven for more than 250,000 miles before they need to be taken to the junkyard and that you should take up auto mechanics as a hobby to save some cash, and giddily recounts the story of a man who wore clothing from 1938. Some of these are no doubt included to be an attempt at humor, but by and large, few are things that I would be capable of doing in a public setting, or in managing myself.
Some are simply untrue, or at least for most, unmanageable. The story of a lady who had a "free house" actually owned the land her house was put on before getting the house, then spent almost $30,000 to move the house in and make it livable. Cheap, yes, but it's not free, and from the fact that this was a house that was going to be otherwise torn down and rebuilt completely, probably not the kind of place you'd be really excited about living in. He used startling statistics about cheapskates, including the fact that a very high percentage of them had never owned a mortgage, and those who did were able to pay them off in nearly half the time, yet few specifics were offered as to the tips on doing this, which were discussed in his previous works. Is that good saving and spending, or is that mainly a case of incredible good luck or unreported inheritance? I tend to think it's towards the latter - I have little debt and good savings habits myself, but there's no way I'll be able to buy a house without a mortgage before I turn seventy.
Overall, there simply wasn't enough in this guide to make me think that anything here was really all that useful for everyday life. A few good resources? Sure. And some people who are simply terrible at saving will probably find some tips that can help them, or the wake up call they need to start planning for their future. This book, for me, felt like a recap of previous ideas and a few slightly humorous stories of people who you'd be embarrassed to eat at a restaurant with. One star.
41 of 48 people found the following review helpful.
Great Read!
By A. Lebeau
This book is proof that not everyone has to live the way advertisements and media say we should but still be very happy and live a full life within their means. The author's quick writing style and witty sense of humor keeps the flow of the book going. I like the "cheap shots" located through out the book. As a frugal person myself for many years, I took away a few new pointers in the shots. This will make an excellent addition to your home library, your public library and would be a great gift for the new graduates or anyone just starting out. Actually, this could be a great gift for anyone!
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