Review: Pocket Your Dollars

With our recent transition to one income and an additional family member, I have been looking for more ways to save money.  When Bethany House offered Pocket Your Dollars as a review book, I decided to give it a shot, even though I've read just about every money-saving book and blog out there.

For the most part, there wasn't anything new in the book.  However, I did like the fact that the author tried to focus more of the root of the problem: our attitudes toward money.  She discusses five different attitude changes needed to help us pay down debt and avoid financial stress.  Along the way, she shares her own personal story of how she and her husband paid off over $50,000 in 2.5 years.  She concludes the book with some practical tips- all of which I was already aware, except one.  Buy your gas on Tuesdays, people.  Apparently, that's generally when gas prices are at their lowest of the week.  Who knew?

While the book didn't offer much new advice or many new ideas on saving money, it was still good for me to be reminded that money (or lack, thereof) is not the root of the problem, but rather my attitudes that affect my actions.

Check out the website www.pocketyourdollars.com for more...but if anyone else has any other ideas on saving money, I'm all ears!

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from Bethany House Publishers as part of their Blogger Review Program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."