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Summary: Lightweight, fun, and actually pretty useful
Review: Good information, including cheap party receipe.
But some information i already knew..
I recommend to all girls working and living on tight badget.
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Summary: Great Find
Review: I don't know what those other reviewers are talking about. I found the book to be a fun read with lots of great, useful ideas. I definitely will refer to it. Plus it's a fun book for people who see it lying around on my coffee table to pick up and flip through for a few little morsels of info. Thanks for your book!
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Summary: One of the most useful books for a girl starting out...
Review: I LOVE this book! I can't help it. It is the coolest thing I've ever seen. It contains sections on decor, fashion, beauty, furniture, really everything imaginable. I can't really think of a single thing not covered here. If you're looking to be stylish, and yet have no money ( an extremely common problem ), this book will solve all of your problems...providing great hope for the future!
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Summary: Lightweight, fun, and actually pretty useful
Review: I really have enjoyed reading this book. I'm 33 and live in a large town/small city, but I still found it helpful. The writing is super lightweight, like in a teen mag, but that quality + the hot pink cover makes it fun to read about saving money. I have enjoyed it and have really begun to think a little differently about what is worth a splurge and what isn't. Fun stuff. Recommended.
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Summary: All I have to say about this book is: THANK GAWD!
Review: I'm just start to get into frugality and, oh hell, let's just call it common sensibility. Most books on saving money seem to be oriented to evangelical Christian moms who homeschool their kids and live on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's for sure not my life. I knew this was the book for me--and a book that really grokked Life in the Big City--when I saw that there was a whole chapter on "finding furniture on the side of the road," which is pretty much how I've furnished my whole house. Her expenses and her world (name-dropping Restoration Hardware and "Tar-jay") are very up-to-the-minute, and it's a relief! Recommended. I wish someone had given me this book when I first graduated from college.
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Summary: Cute...
Review: If you are in your twenties and have no clue...this is the book for you.
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Summary: Not for this Urban Girl
Review: If you are looking for a book on how to live on a limited income, this is not your book. Nina Wildorf seems to live in a world that doesn't involve student loans, car payments, or the idea of a savings account. Her rule of thimb for budgeting is 20% of your income towards clothes. This is not fical responsibility.
And only wash your jeans every 6 months so that they don't fade? Really? Am I the only one who thinks this is odd?
On the other hand, she does have some cute ideas for decorating on the cheap--I am glad to see that someone besides me goes dumpster diving!
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Summary: but not terribly practical in the real world
Review: In Ms. Willdorf's magical world people don't have credit card debt, student loan payments, emergency vet bills, car problems or health issues requiring prescription drugs ... at least her handy-dandy budgeting lists never mention or account for these things. Must be nice.
While some of the hints and suggestions in this book are rather interesting, some of them were simply incorrect. For example, the author fusses about Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee costing $18/lb., to which I say "Ha." Not unless she's sleeping with the bean farmer (or, she's being ripped off with an undisclosed blend -- which is also possible). That stuff might *wholesale* for such a price, but if you're buying by the pound it's more like $50 a bag.
Also, there's a great deal of discussion on thrift store shopping and second hand acquisitions, but her estimates of furniture prices are ludicrously low. She *sounds* like someone who has been thrifting sometime within the last 20 years ... but the numbers she tosses off incline me to think otherwise.
All in all, the book was a quick, fluffy, pleasant-enough read ... but it wasn't half as informative as I hoped it would be. If you're *actually* poor, you may want to look elsewhere for your bargains. This book was written for poor women with poor friends who occasionally drop $600 on decorative pillows [an actual anecdote from the book, related as a fiscal coup].
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Summary: great
Review: Nina Willdorf knows what she's talking about. I can't believe at all the useful advice that I got from this book. Not every tip worked for me, but that's okay, because a lot of her advice was just so helpful and I used a lot of it. The book is about 247 pages and has four sections: home, body, eat & drink, wear. This book is a must for any city girl on a budget. Learn how to decorate for less, take care of plants and flowers, work out & take care of skin, hair and make-up without breaking the bank. Save on clothes, entertain for less, and much more. The only drawback is that it doesn't have a section on how to save on entertainment. I also recommend "Cheap Ways To...by Margaret Feinberg"
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Summary: Fluff
Review: really obvious suggestions. maybe OK if you're just out of high school or college and clueless. otherwise, save your money.
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