I enjoyed Your money or your life as well. Again a book that makes you think about what is neccessary. I have seen so many times on this and other frugal boards people almost hopelessly (there is always hope) in debt clinging to things like cable TV because they 'NEED' it. Nobody NEEDS cable TV. They only want it and if it was a choice of a roof over my head or food on the table I can really slash stuff. One of the things we slashed was cable TV over 3 years ago. We don't miss it and I really don't miss that monthly bill. We have other things to spend that money on or not spend it on (save).
Your Money Or Your Life encourages people to be brutally honest with themselves. I was still working the first time I read that book and I did all sorts of calculations to see what I could cut out just to have one more day at home a month. I am home everyday now due to disablity and if I had it to do over again, I would have worked so much harder to get off the go to work every day merry-go-round and be home to establish my own home business when I really had the health and energy to run it. I have seen what I can accomplish on a very part time basis and would have liked to see what I could have done working full time from home.
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