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Half-Price Living: Secrets to Living Well on One Income
by
Ellie Kay
Kay, "America's Family Financial Expert*," calls upon her financial expertise and experience as a mom to write this step-by-step plan on how to downsize from two incomes to one.
Paperback, 176 pages
Published
January 1st 2007
by Moody Publishers
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This is an okay book. As other reviewers have mentioned, there isn't much revolutionary advice but there are some good tips on grocery bill cutting and living a little thriftier.
I do want to point out that I don't know why most of the reviewers are disappointed that this book addresses stay-at-home- moms. The subtitle is "Secrets to Living Well on One Income" which implies someone is staying at home and, since it is written by a woman, it is likely the mom that is doing th...more
I do want to point out that I don't know why most of the reviewers are disappointed that this book addresses stay-at-home- moms. The subtitle is "Secrets to Living Well on One Income" which implies someone is staying at home and, since it is written by a woman, it is likely the mom that is doing th...more
I have been toying with the "what if I did decided to be a stay at home mom?" question and picked up this book. The most helpful part is the formula where you plug in your income and expenses and, supposedly, it shows you just how point less it is for women folk to keep working and that it makes more sense for me to get home, get pregnant and stay in the kitchen....but it didn't really work out that way for me. I guess it make more economic sense when you crunch the numbers for me to s...more
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I was looking for more ideas on saving, living a more frugal life, however, I didn't learn much from this book. The first 60 pages are spent telling you why it is a good idea to live on one income. Most of the strategies I am already doing. I did like the chapter on Kid budgets.
This book would be a good read for someone who is considering staying at home but not sure they can do it.
This book would be a good read for someone who is considering staying at home but not sure they can do it.
This book wasn't exactly what I thought it would be. It's a great book for mother's who are considering being a stay at home mom and living off of one income. I thought it was about more for anyone. I did find the cutting grocery bill section helpful though and also ways to make some extra cash helpful.
Great ideas of how to cut costs, but primarily focuses on the women that wants to be a stay at home mom.
I would give this two and a half stars.
I had never heard of Ellie Kay, but saw the title in the catalog when looking up something else. She has good advice, but can't say that any of her advice was revolutionary. Use coupons! Grocery cards! Shop consignment stores!
Her hook that will draw people is that she has a very religious tinge to her work, and she is a military wife. Both are mentioned, but not hammered in.
Overall a good read for the beginner conscientious shopper.
Her hook that will draw people is that she has a very religious tinge to her work, and she is a military wife. Both are mentioned, but not hammered in.
Overall a good read for the beginner conscientious shopper.
She seems to have written quite a few I am going to have to get my hands on. Renee from work lent me this one she knew my decision to resign from teaching was final. I felt validated since she suggests a lot of techniques we used to get on budget and well!
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This was an interesting book and although I don't intend to stay home and not work, I still would like to live off of one income and save all of the other. This provided some helpful hints for anyone.
A good book for those looking to switch from 2 to 1 income. Having lived on 1 for a few years now, didn't learn much new. But still valuable.
A few of the chapters had some good ideas, others seemed like the same old things.
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