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The Minimalist Budget BOXED SET - A Practical Guide On How To Spend Less and Live More
BOOK 1: Rethinking Budgeting - How to Escape the Poverty Mindset and Create a Lifestyle That Works for You
BOOK 2: The Minimalist Budget - A Practical Guide On How To Save Money, Spend Less And Live More With A Minimalist Lifestyle
BOOK 3: Dollars & No Sense - Why Are You Spending Your Money Like An Idiot?
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In this boxed set, we’ll be tackling the familiar challenges of personal finance management, but in an unfamiliar way.
If your main money problem is simply “I don’t have enough of it!”, you may be surprised at the approach these books will take. Here, you will NOT find the same old tips and tricks on how to save money by re-using teabags or buying rice in bulk. Instead, we’ll get to the very heart of what money actually means, how we spend it and why, and what you can do to start using what you have right now to create a lifestyle that has meaning for you.
"Budget" - it's a meager little word, one that all too often comes after “tight” . Maybe you think of this word as an adjective, something to describe a cheap and substandard car or hotel. “Budget” brings to mind rationing… a kind of money diet. If you're like many people, budgeting is something you do with a kind of deflated spirit. Budgeting means bargain bin quality and the sad sense that what you want is going to be just out of reach.
With these books, we'll try to go a little deeper. We’ll consider the root causes of careless spending, as well as the three biggest but largely invisible money myths we all believe in to some extent. We’ll then consider ways to start creating a budget that works for you and your goals, rather than against it.
So much budget and personal finance advice out there is about solving problems using the same thinking that created them. These books will try a different approach to budgeting altogether. And it starts with a fact that many personal finance guides out there avoid like the plague.
My hope with these books is that they'll give you a starting point to begin to reconsider your relationship to money and, by extension, your relationship to yourself and the world you live in. My hope is that you'll find something that inspires you to think differently and make different choices, ones that will leave you feeling more in control and more fulfilled than ever before.
We each only have one life – here’s to spending it wisely!
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What are readers saying?
"This is the type of book everyone should read. In this incredible guide, the author breaks down multiple budgeting strategies and end with a step-by-step actionable plan. Plenty of food for thought, excellent strategies offered and nicely organized."
"This is definitely not just another cut-and-save type of book. While it does deliver a wealth of very solid advice on how to make drastic changes in your spending habits and provide great advice on how to save money in an variety of areas, it gave me so much more food for thought that I could ever have anticipated. In actuality, these books tie all of the above into our own personal psychology and our attitudes about money, possessions and the role they play in our lives. The next time someone asks for advice on this topic, I will definitely recommend this collection.
BOOK 2: The Minimalist Budget - A Practical Guide On How To Save Money, Spend Less And Live More With A Minimalist Lifestyle
BOOK 3: Dollars & No Sense - Why Are You Spending Your Money Like An Idiot?
-----------------
In this boxed set, we’ll be tackling the familiar challenges of personal finance management, but in an unfamiliar way.
If your main money problem is simply “I don’t have enough of it!”, you may be surprised at the approach these books will take. Here, you will NOT find the same old tips and tricks on how to save money by re-using teabags or buying rice in bulk. Instead, we’ll get to the very heart of what money actually means, how we spend it and why, and what you can do to start using what you have right now to create a lifestyle that has meaning for you.
"Budget" - it's a meager little word, one that all too often comes after “tight” . Maybe you think of this word as an adjective, something to describe a cheap and substandard car or hotel. “Budget” brings to mind rationing… a kind of money diet. If you're like many people, budgeting is something you do with a kind of deflated spirit. Budgeting means bargain bin quality and the sad sense that what you want is going to be just out of reach.
With these books, we'll try to go a little deeper. We’ll consider the root causes of careless spending, as well as the three biggest but largely invisible money myths we all believe in to some extent. We’ll then consider ways to start creating a budget that works for you and your goals, rather than against it.
So much budget and personal finance advice out there is about solving problems using the same thinking that created them. These books will try a different approach to budgeting altogether. And it starts with a fact that many personal finance guides out there avoid like the plague.
My hope with these books is that they'll give you a starting point to begin to reconsider your relationship to money and, by extension, your relationship to yourself and the world you live in. My hope is that you'll find something that inspires you to think differently and make different choices, ones that will leave you feeling more in control and more fulfilled than ever before.
We each only have one life – here’s to spending it wisely!
-----------------
What are readers saying?
"This is the type of book everyone should read. In this incredible guide, the author breaks down multiple budgeting strategies and end with a step-by-step actionable plan. Plenty of food for thought, excellent strategies offered and nicely organized."
"This is definitely not just another cut-and-save type of book. While it does deliver a wealth of very solid advice on how to make drastic changes in your spending habits and provide great advice on how to save money in an variety of areas, it gave me so much more food for thought that I could ever have anticipated. In actuality, these books tie all of the above into our own personal psychology and our attitudes about money, possessions and the role they play in our lives. The next time someone asks for advice on this topic, I will definitely recommend this collection.
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July 23, 2017
The Minimalist Budget Boxed Set – A Practical Guide On How To Spend Less and Live More by Simeon Lindstrom is composed of three books:
Rethinking Budgeting – How to Escape the Poverty Mindset and Create a Lifestyle That Works for You
The Minimalist Budget – A Practical Guide on How to Save Money, Spend Less and Live More With a Minimalist Lifestyle
Dollars & No Sense – Why Are You Spending Your Money Like an Idiot?
This collection is a comprehensible study on budgeting. It's formatted in a way that makes it seem as if the author is having a heart-to-heart conversation with the reader. He starts off the book claiming that what we think we know about money is wrong and that money is, in fact, a mind-set. He also says, "This is not a book about money. It's a book about thinking about money."
Book One - Understanding who we are and how we came to be is important in learning to achieve the kind of lifestyle we want. Following the guidelines, discover what your money personality is. Rethinking Budgeting contains numerous exercises which impede smooth reading and may irritate the reader a bit. Afterwards, it's clear that it was the most plausible way to go in order for us to have a better understanding of our beliefs about money. The author invites us to evaluate our perspective and take responsibility for our lives and dreams.
Book Two – What is money, Simeon Lindstrom questions. We are now presented with personal financial management in a manner unlike what we are used to. This volume also suggests how to create a meaningful lifestyle and how to examine what our relationship to money is.
Book Three – This book explores what people think about budgeting. The author views it as encompassing every aspect of our lives. He believes that how we spend money is an expression of ourselves.
Starting to read a boxed-set about money and budgeting seemed daunting to me at first. As I dug in, I found myself thinking hard about what type of money personality I had, what I could do to change, and basically agreeing with most of what Simeon Lindstrom pointed out. I definitely don't think about money the same way anymore.
This should be mandatory reading in high school curriculums.
I received a free copy of this collection in exchange for an honest review.
Rethinking Budgeting – How to Escape the Poverty Mindset and Create a Lifestyle That Works for You
The Minimalist Budget – A Practical Guide on How to Save Money, Spend Less and Live More With a Minimalist Lifestyle
Dollars & No Sense – Why Are You Spending Your Money Like an Idiot?
This collection is a comprehensible study on budgeting. It's formatted in a way that makes it seem as if the author is having a heart-to-heart conversation with the reader. He starts off the book claiming that what we think we know about money is wrong and that money is, in fact, a mind-set. He also says, "This is not a book about money. It's a book about thinking about money."
Book One - Understanding who we are and how we came to be is important in learning to achieve the kind of lifestyle we want. Following the guidelines, discover what your money personality is. Rethinking Budgeting contains numerous exercises which impede smooth reading and may irritate the reader a bit. Afterwards, it's clear that it was the most plausible way to go in order for us to have a better understanding of our beliefs about money. The author invites us to evaluate our perspective and take responsibility for our lives and dreams.
Book Two – What is money, Simeon Lindstrom questions. We are now presented with personal financial management in a manner unlike what we are used to. This volume also suggests how to create a meaningful lifestyle and how to examine what our relationship to money is.
Book Three – This book explores what people think about budgeting. The author views it as encompassing every aspect of our lives. He believes that how we spend money is an expression of ourselves.
Starting to read a boxed-set about money and budgeting seemed daunting to me at first. As I dug in, I found myself thinking hard about what type of money personality I had, what I could do to change, and basically agreeing with most of what Simeon Lindstrom pointed out. I definitely don't think about money the same way anymore.
This should be mandatory reading in high school curriculums.
I received a free copy of this collection in exchange for an honest review.
August 4, 2018
Decent information but riddled with typos.
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