The Debt Diet: An Easy-to-follow Plan To Shed Debt And Trim Spending

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Summary: Overcoming Debt Delightfully!
Review: These days, diets are a dime a dozen. But the Debt Diet will save you dozens of dimes and dollars, too! Gifted author and speaker Ellie Kay has spared no expense in depositing her wealth of money-saving, debt-freeing tips into this creative compendium of money management. This is not another boring budget book. Debt Diet is caloricly rich in wit and wisdom, specializing in Kay's trademark storytelling savvy, with practical life-application. I have never encountered such an author who can make finances both user-friendly and uniquely fun! Purchasing Kay's book will be one of the wisest investments you ever make. Apply her God-given stewardship truths for lifetime dividends of debt-free living. By putting yourself and your family on her delightful debt diet, you can only gain a life of financial peace and security. There's nothing boring about that!

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Summary: Financial Fitness in 12 Easy Lessons
Review: As one who definitely needs to shed some unwanted (though not undeserved) debt, I can testify to the need of a Money Guru whose program isn't going to set me back a few hundred dollars more before I even get started.

I'm happy to report I found it all here in Ellie Kay's latest tome on how to how to turn the spending tide. Ellie not only offers solid advice on how to implement these reductions, she does so from personal experience. This guide reflects how she, along with her husband, helps keep their large family afloat.

Her personal stories, like the ones I remember from her previous work "Shop, Save, and Share" are the glue that holds this book together, bringing it a grace and charm often missing in other "How to" books.

A previous reviewer compared Kay's financial insights to Richard Simmons. With due respect, I believe Ellie Kay's program more appropriately carries with it the muscle of Ah-nold, especially in light of his recent promise to tighten California's economic waistline.

My advice? Don't be an economic girly-man. Pick up a copy of "The Debt Diet" and start bench-pressing your way to a stable financial future.



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Summary: Help for your resolution to be financially fit!
Review: Ellie Kay does it again! With her wit and wisdom she shows readers how to get into financial shape and lose that debt. The book includes practical tips on everything from asessing your money attitudes to finding solutions on over-spending. She also includes advice on money talk with your kids and paying for college. Don't miss this financially saavy book!

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Summary: Rock solid advice from an expert
Review: Ellie Kay offers very practical, proven advice on how to get a handle on family finances. Those of us who are financial sloths view Ellie Kay as a coach who who helps us get into fiscal shape. She is funny, encouraging, wise, and effective. Excellent resource.

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Summary: 'Acvice With a Heart - From The Heart'
Review: Excellent book with advice I would loved to have had access to many years ago. This book should be in every young couples home. Because tough facts and advice are woven together with a golden thread of humor which is Ellie Kay's spirit, this is a book which will benefit any age person or couple. In the past 43 years of raising a family of five sons, I thought I knew every way to manage finances, but "The Debt Diet" has shed a welcome light on many other ways to have financial freedom. I love the book and I didn't even have to give up 'CHOCOLATE' to follow Ellie's advice. Thanks, Ellie, for your friendship, advice, prayers, and love over the years.

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Summary: The Debt Diet
Review: How someone can keep me interested in a subject as mundane as finances, I do not know, but Ellie Kay does with humor, advice and outstanding anecdotes. She hits every subject imaginable, from insurance, children, teens, retirement, savings and sharing. She is like my personal financial trainer in print. :)



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Summary: Delicious - I couldn't eat just one chapter.....
Review: I gobbled this book down, chapter by chapter. Ellie has written a very comprehensive guide. Not only are there easy to follow worksheets but she has the guts to delve into the "whys". The chapter about the "fight-free zone for couples" was so applicable. I was able to use her suggestions that very night. I wish I had this book when I first got married!

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Summary: Easy to follow, practical information everyone needs to know
Review: I never knew learning about my finances could be so easy to understand. Ellie Kay shares imperative information about credit, finances and sharing that we all need to know. This book is easy to read, easy to understand and easy to apply to your life. I strongly recommend you purchase this book for yourself and loved ones. Not only will you be improving your financial life when you apply these principles, but you will smile along the way. Ellie Kay adds humor to this important subject.

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Summary: Losing unwanted lbs (and unwanted high interest rates)
Review: This is an unusual book. Although I read it front-to-back, I've paged back to specific sections to share with my debt-heavy friends, in which the author shows real, doable tactics for losing debt weight. (Also known as dead weight!?)

She includes lots of resources (websites, phone numbers of helpful organizations), and suggestions on how to approach or best take advantage of their services. The sections on FICO scores was excellent--it explained details that go into caculating it, and why it is that I need to know this. Such as: my score could be decent (not terribly low), but still actually cost me real bucks in interest. Thanks, Ms. Kay!


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Summary: A book everyone can learn from
Review: This is another superb book by Ellie Kay. My wife and I thought we knew how to save money, avoid debt, and still enjoy ourselves. But once again, Ellie Kay provided meaningful information that was new to us. More importantly, she combined this information with common sense, then presented it all in her unique, entertaining, conversational style. This is an easy book to read, so much so that it is a little surprising how informative it is as well. It is a good gift idea for people in their early 20s who are just getting started financially.