Become Totally Debt-Free in Five Years or Less

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Summary: What Ever Person Should Read
Review: America is known as the land of plenty. We should say the land of "plenty of debt". This book has practical solutions for living debt free that readers can apply to their individual lives. Living and Living "Debt Free" are two different states of mind. In a time of economic uncertainty these basic principles are a path to opening economic success for all who read, comprehend and apply this time tested information. This book should only be read if the reader makes a committment to become debt free.

Rating:
Summary: What Ever Person Should Read
Review: America is known as the land of plenty. We should say the land of "plenty of debt". This book has practical solutions for living debt free that readers can apply to their individual lives. Living and Living "Debt Free" are two different states of mind. In a time of economic uncertainty these basic principles are a path to opening economic success for all who read, comprehend and apply this time tested information. This book should only be read if the reader makes a committment to become debt free.

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Summary: Interesting
Review: Become Totally Debt-Free In Five Years Or Less: Pay Off Your Mortgage, Car, Credit Cards, And More! is a compendium of practical, effective, coherent, "user friendly" advice for anyone seeking to emancipate themselves from the burden of debt and former money-management mistakes. Gwendolyn Gabriel shows how to determine if you are a candidate for bankruptcy debt relief; how to end the credit-card cycle; turn your house into a money-maker; lower your utility bills; cut eating expenses in half; resolve financially incompatible marital woes, divorce inexpensively, save money during holidays, prepare your own will, save on planned vacations, and much, much more. If you want to be debt free and no longer bleeding your earnings through interest payments, late fees, and financial waste -- begin with a thoroughly reading of Gwendolyn Gabriel's Become Totally Debt-Free In Five Years Or Less.

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Summary: Start saving by not buying this book!
Review: I have read a lot of books about debt recovery, personal finances, budgeting, and saving, and this book has been by far the worst. To begin with, regardless of how the title sounds, the author doesn't actually give any tips for how to organize or budget in order to reduce the debt that you currently have. The book is basically a list of money saving tips, which would be fine if the tips were useful and applicable to ones daily life. Unfortunately those that Ms. Gabriel shares are neither.

Her tips range from ultra-restrictive suggestions such as never go into a mall or retail store again to tips that would only apply to specific and seldom occuring (at least I hope) situations such as decide not to get tattoos or don't throw lavish funerals for your loved ones to just down right impractical suggestions such as move in with family or friends for a year and rent out your house so that you can double what you are paying on your mortgage. If you are looking for a book of practical, manageable money saving tips that you can apply to your everyday life then this is definitely not that book.

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Summary: Wonderful Book - I refer to it daily!!!
Review: I purchased this book a little over two years ago when I first saw the author on television. Since then, my husband and I have referred to it daily to find ways to save money. If we keep it up, we should be out of debt in two more years. So, we both think that this is the best book that we have ever read about getting out of debt. If this author puts out a second edition, we hope to be the first to buy it. Thank you author for writing such a wonderful book!!!

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Summary: Save Your Money
Review: Save your money and skip this book. As stated in other reviews, the title of the book is misleading. The author mentions here and there how she got out of debt but there was nothing for the reader to grasp onto and use as a course of action. The tid-bits of information she gives for saving money are obvious and boring if the reader has already been reading books on the "get out of debt" subject.