City Chic: An Urban Girl's Guide to Livin' Large on Less

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Summary: Witty Wisdom for Women
Review: This book as fun to read as it was valuable. Pouring over the pages was like having a great conversation with a trusted girlfriend. And who doesn't need tips on keeping a lid on the budget these days? Here's my only tip: Give this book as an affordable and stylish gift for any girl on your list.

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Summary: What an AMAZING find
Review: This book started me on my passion for Chick Knowledge! It was so encouraging to me as a single chica!

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Summary: Light but useful, crazy but funny!
Review: This book suits every single girl! Nina teaches you how to live large and spend less. Seems most of the things she listed are just "little tricks", but they can really help you to build up a big saving for living good! Not making a lot of money doesn't mean that you have to have a poor life. I don't live in New York so I don't know if those tricks will work. (I am not sure if you can really keep your utility bill under $50 everytime - unless you live in a dog house or you don't mind during the summer time turning up the themostat to a degree that makes your house just like an oven!) But honestly speaking, this is an interesting book. Sometime I found Nina knows how to manage her finance in a wise way. Sure not all of us can follow what she does, (like she doesn't count any extras such as traveling, even just to visit your friends in another states, and seems she doesn't have any student loans- which is quite a portion of my family expenses) but I can see that she can still have $200 to buy a piece of clothes in Banana Repulic, she can still eat out and spend $100 on her hair-cut. Maybe from a family's prospective, "City Chic" is not an excellent book to teach you how to manage your finance or to create a balance budget, (We probably spend more money to buy a nice piece of furniture instead of having a $100 hair-cut every month, don't we?) but I believe some girls who just graduated from colleges and start to have a new life (alone or with friends, or boyfriends) will definitely find this book useful, and it is a good reference for them!

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Summary: Cheap and Chic
Review: This is a really smart and cute guide for us young twenty somethings that are just getting started. It has great tips and advice on what areas to splurge on and how to love large on a budget. Alot of things are common sense but it's still a cute book