The New Frugality
How to Consume Less, Save More, and Live Better

Here's the sum-up: The bubble burst, guys. Sorry. We need to readjust our priorities and lifestyles if we want real, long-term stability and a happy life that includes healthy finances but isn't dependent on scads of money. Along the way, you'll live a "greener" lifestyle as a byproduct of simplifying......more

At first I thought this was going to be a lot of "duh, no sh*t" advice about finances, (like "you shouldn't use a credit card to pay off your debt on another credit card? whaaa?") but it steadily became a book that is immensely useful for those of us who are still paying off college loans, new to sa......more

Libby Audio. A good overview on how to look at money from a frugal perspective. Many ideas were not new and many chapters still made me feel like I'll never have enough disposable income. But still a worthwhile read.......more

The usefulness of the personal finance advice depends on how much you've already read on the topic -- he doesn't (and shouldn't) break new ground. Specific to whether the New Frugality will actually happen, I remain unconvinced. There was nothing to indicate what makes this time different, versus an......more

In some ways a run-of-the-mill financial planning book. Its main difference is that the advice comes from the "consume less" angle rather than the "budget and hope for the best" angle. There was a very good chapter about home ownership and how to figure out what the author calls your P/R ratio, the......more