The Spender's Guide to Debt-Free Living: How a Spending Fast Helped Me Get from Broke to Badass in Record Time / Anna Newell Jones

Popular blogger Anna Newell Jones of AndThenWeSaved.com delivers this self-help manifesto that reveals how a "spending fast" will help you get on the road to living debt-free.

In 2009, young photographer Anna Newell Jones was rapidly suffocating under the weight of too much debt. An inveterate spender, she was in way over her head, to the tune of almost $24,000. She knew her debt was only going to get worse if she didn t take action, but she didn t know where to look for help. On a whim, Anna decided to go on a spending fast an idea she heard in passing but knew little about. Creating her own method, she learned what worked and what didn t and wrote about it on her blog, AndThenWeSaved.com. Amazingly, Anna was able to eliminate all $23,605.10 of her debt in only 15 months! She was interviewed in Forbes, Self, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, and the Chicago Tribune.

Anna s journey inspired people and showed them that they too could change the way they dealt with their own money woes. The Spender s Guide To Debt-Free Living takes readers through a detailed step-by-step plan on how to do a Spending Fast and get out of debt, including:

• Creating a personalized Debt-Free Life Pledge.
• Understanding where your money is going when you re in debt, and where it will come from to pay it off.
• Learning why putting money into a savings account before (or while) paying off debt may not be the best idea for you.
• Finding additional income sources and generating side gigs.
• Re-integrating spending into your life once you re out of debt, so that you stay out of debt.

Filled with do-it-yourself ideas, insight from experts, and tons of motivational tips and real-life practical advice, The Spender s Guide to Debt-Free Living proves that you don t have to win the lottery or get a new job to change your life.