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Be CentsAble: How To Cut Your Household Budget In Half (2010)

by Chrissy Pate(Favorite Author)

3.31 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0452296242 (ISBN13: 9780452296244)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Plume

review 1: I picked this up at our library. I will list it as suggested reading for my upcoming Coupon Class. I already knew the info, but I did like how it was presented. On the downside, I was quite dissapointed with the website which is referenced multiple times. All the items I went to the website to find, were terribly difficult to find and then not very well done. (Sale cycle list for example). One other downside is that the authors are envirogreenorganicheads which I am SOOOOOOOOOOOO not into. so a good amount of their savings had to do with savings on cleaning products had to do with savings over so-called enviromentall friendly cleaning products (which, they never defined what that meant, why is it envro friendly, how do they know). I did appreciate that they listed fo... moreods that were not worth purchasing in organic (I also don't believe in organic food as the denotation and the conotation of organic food is not at all the same and purchasers are NOT getting what they think they are!) I did learn more about utility savings than I had known about.
review 2: Really helpful, encouraging book by the two creators of Becentsable.com. The first half or so is about how to start couponing to save money while gradually building a stockpile of items your family uses. It's NOT all about how to stock up on Hamburger Helper, though. Their families do not eat a lot of convenience food and even have some gluten-free eaters. The last half is about saving money on clothes, restaurants, travel, etc. and includes the recipes they use to make their own cleaning supplies (cleaners, laundry detergent, dishwashing detergent). The tone is not preachy and the authors are up-front about all the mistakes they made while trying to figure this all out. less

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