The Spender's Guide to Debt-Free Living

How a Spending Fast Helped Me Get from Broke to Badass in Record Time

By: Anna Newell Jones

Narrated by: Carly Robins

Popular blogger Anna Newell Jones of AndThenWeSaved.com delivers this self-help manifesto that reveals how a ""spending fast"" will help you get on the road to living debt-free.

In 2009, young photographer Anna Newell Jones was rapidly suffocating under the weight of too much debt. An inveterate “spender,” she was in way over her head, to the tune of almost $24,000. She knew her debt was only going to get worse if she didn’t take action, but she didn’t know where to look for help. On a whim, Anna decided to go on a spending fast—an idea she heard in passing but knew little about. Creating her own method, she learned what worked and what didn’t and wrote about it on her blog, AndThenWeSaved.com. Amazingly, Anna was able to eliminate all $23,605.10 of her debt in only 15 months! She was interviewed in Forbes, Self, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, and the Chicago Tribune.

Anna’s journey inspired people and showed them that they too could change the way they dealt with their own money woes. The Spender’s Guide To Debt-Free Living takes readers through a detailed step-by-step plan on how to do a Spending Fast and get out of debt, including:

• Creating a personalized Debt-Free Life Pledge.
• Understanding where your money is going when you’re in debt, and where it will come from to pay it off.
• Learning why putting money into a savings account before (or while) paying off debt may not be the best idea for you.
• Finding additional income sources and generating side gigs.
• Re-integrating spending into your life once you’re out of debt, so that you stay out of debt.

Filled with do-it-yourself ideas, insight from experts, and tons of motivational tips and real-life practical advice, The Spender’s Guide to Debt-Free Living proves that you don’t have to win the lottery or get a new job to change your life.

It has good advise

This book assumes you are actually making a decent amount of money. It is directed at people who are just squandering their money, and need redirection. I don't need to go on a "spending fast" (being underemployed did that for me for 2 years), but now that I'm making a full-time paycheck I don't want to get financially derailed by silly spending. This book teaches a few tactics that are good for that.

Wish I had read 10, 20, 30 years ago!

If you could sum up The Spender's Guide to Debt-Free Living in three words, what would they be?

Fun, relatable, and easily applicable "advice" on the benefits of living life debt-free.

What does Carly Robins bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Her voice and style was perfect for this story....Very engaging.

Im doing it!

it's motivating funny honest and love changing material. I enjoyed it and will put this on repeat next year

Nothing New Here

this book is definitely geared towards a very young audience. the narration was fantastic but the content was very basic.

Easy listen

good book to get you started on saving. easy listen. loved it and ready to apply.