Skyrocket Your Savings! Review and Giveaway

UPDATE: This giveaway has ended.  The winner will be announced soon.  Please enter any of the other giveaways on the left sidebar.

I love to read personal finance books. It doesn't matter what the subject is - getting out of debt, investing, starting a business - I like them all.

What I look for most in these kinds of books is some sort of connection to the writer. Rather than a dry list of money-saving ideas, I prefer to read personal stories about how the author succeeded with money.  I don't just want to learn some theoretical facts about how to get out of debt and save money - I want to see those facts in action in the author's life.

And that's what I found when I read Skyrocket Your Savings! by Rene Christensen, formerly of Budget Saving Mom. This e-book is full of great ideas on saving money as well as lots of personal stories and links to posts at her former blog.

For instance, in a chapter of Needs vs. Wants, Christensen doesn't just list what items in your life are needs and which are wants; instead, she lists the rules she used to determine needs versus wants at a point in her life when she lived on a microscopic budget and only had money for the absolute necessities.

Christensen doesn't just say that you should have an emergency fund; instead, she lists all the financial emergencies she had in one calendar year (including getting a new roof - twice!) and illustrates how if her family did not have an emergency fund, these emergencies would have driven them into debt.  Instead, they were able to draw on the emergency fund.  After looking at her list, I am definitely going to beef up my emergency fund as soon as I can.

The second half of the e-book lists ways that you can save money on expenses such as car expenses, child care, clothing, eating out, electricity, food and toiletries, gas, insurance, medicine, mortgage, recreation, school supplies, TV/phone/Internet, and water bill.  Lists like this, though important, can also make for some boring reading.  But Christensen makes them both entertaining and informative by including links to great deals she's found on these items and more, such as this amazing consignment shop find.

For each chapter, there's an assignment to help you implement the suggestions for that chapter.  Complete these assignments, and you're well on your way to save, save, save!

Whether you're a novice to saving money or a frugal pro, you'll find lots of great information and tips that will help you further your money-saving goals!  I highly recommend Skyrocket Your Savings!

Want to check out a chapter of this book?  Just click here and give a shout-out about Skyrocket Your Savings! on Facebook or Twitter, and you'll receive Chapter 18: Save on Phone, TV, Internet.

Skyrocket Your Savings! retails for just $4.99, making it affordable for everyone.  But I have a special deal just for Frugal Follies readers:

Go to the Skyrocket Your Savings site and add the e-book to your cart.  When you enter the discount code FrugalFollies on the shopping cart page, you'll save an additional 10% off!

Or would you like to get Skyrocket Your Savings for free?

Frugal Follies is holding a giveaway for one copy of Skyrocket Your Savings!

To enter the giveaway,  leave a comment on this post stating which money-saving tips (car expenses, child care, clothing, eating out, electricity, food and toiletries, gas, insurance, medicine, mortgage, recreation, school supplies, TV/phone/Internet, or water bill) you'd like to learn more about.   This entry is mandatory. If you're the winner, I will post your username (but not your email address) and your comment in a future post announcing the winner of the giveaway. By entering, you are giving me permission to post your comment.  If you're posting a comment and don't have a Google account or OpenID, please leave an email address in your comment so that I can reach you if you've won!  This contest is only open to readers 18 or older worldwide.

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Good luck!  This giveaway will end on Thursday, January 19, 2012, at 11:59 pm Eastern time.  Any entries received after that date and time will not be entered into the giveaway.  I will choose the winner with random.org at the end of the contest and contact the winner via email. 

But if you can't wait that long, buy Skyrocket Your Savings! now and use the code FrugalFollies to get 10% off!  Click here to purchase Skyrocket Your Savings!.

(Disclaimer: I received a review copy of Skyrocket Your Savings!.  All opinions are mine.)

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