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  • A Practical Guide on How to Save Money, Spend Less and Live More with a Minimalist Lifestyle
  • Written by: Simeon Lindstrom
  • Narrated by: John Malone
  • Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (26 ratings)

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Written by: Simeon Lindstrom
Narrated by: John Malone
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What's the first thing you think of when you hear the word budget? It's a meager little word, one that all too often comes after tight. Maybe you think of this word as an adjective, something to describe a cheap and substandard car or hotel. Budget brings to mind rationing, a kind of money diet. If you're like many people, budgeting is something you do with a kind of deflated spirit: budgeting means bargain bin quality and the sad sense that what you want is going to be just out of reach.

This book will try an altogether different approach to budgeting. It's a pity that the idea of living within one's means should be experienced as such a deficit. This book will try to show that when you apply the principles of minimalism to budgeting, you are neither in a state of self-denial nor trying to survive a financial scrape. In fact a minimalist budget is a particular approach to abundance and fulfillment that may seem counterintuitive to most.

Undoubtedly, what came into your mind when you heard the word budget was simple: money. Money is a thing to be feared, to be saved, to be celebrated when it's there and mourned when it isn't. Budgeting, we are told, is necessary. When you live in a world where there is always one more thing to buy, being cognizant of the fact that you don't have endless resources is just the practical thing to do.

However, budgeting can be much more than this. To put it simply, money is only one of the resources that we should be managing in our lives and possibly not even the most important one.

As humans it is our lot to deal with being finite beings: We have only so much time to spend on this earth, only so much time that we are allotted each day, only so much energy that we can give away before we run into a deficit.

©2014 Simeon Lindstrom (P)2016 Simeon Lindstrom

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very very useful!

i really liked the way this book was put together and straight to the point.

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Great Financial Advice; Questionable Health Advice

I've been budgeting since I before I was 16. I loved what he had to say about looking at the bigger picture. It is so true what he said about advertising.

However, when he talked about health I felt constantly pulled in the Big Pharma direction. "homeopathic remedies show to not help", or "planned parenthood has free birth control". I thought that the research was pulled up to short. I was really excited the first half hour, but then I just off put by the fact that it was so... red neck. I guess thats the best way to put it. So apparently I shouldn't bother to look into my meds to see if I can find the generic, or that the side affects of some things may be more harmful in the long run.

I was really sure I'd recommend this book, but with no statistics or medical journal references I'm just too disappointed.

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Very doable

Just finished listening the book, great simple advices given. Will definitely need to sit down and analyze my life and areas for improvement. I must admit, I did expect it to be another book on examples where to save the $, but the approach was different and addressed exactly what Im lacking the most - time. I’m time poor and I got to change that!! Thank you!!

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well written

I enjoyed this book very much it was right to the point. I am excited to take want I've learned and apply to my life.

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