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    Confessions of a Cheapskate
    Confessions of a Cheapskate
    Confessions of a Cheapskate
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    Confessions of a Cheapskate

    By Annie Jean Brewer

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    Have you ever wondered about the crazy things that a cheapskate will do to save money? This book is a collection of stories from the life of Annie Jean Brewer, the famous frugalista behind Annienygma.com.

    The tales in this book cover:

    Dumpster Diving
    Family cloths
    Going without shampoo
    Going Commando
    Winter coats and maternity clothes
    Stains
    Freezer jeans
    The Pepsi point summer
    Ghetto auto repairs
    Going car-free
    Staying cool
    Keeping warm
    Eating out for half-price
    Tomato soup
    Cheap meds
    Cigarette butts

    Each of these stories are true and shared here to entertain and inspire your inner cheapskate.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnnie Jean Brewer
    Release dateFeb 19, 2015
    ISBN9781311053596
    Confessions of a Cheapskate
    Author

    Annie Jean Brewer

    Everyone should live on less. When we simplify our lives we liberate ourselves from the mind-numbing struggle just to survive. I started out working four jobs as I struggled to raise my kids as a single mother but we never had enough but when I began combining minimalism with frugality my life changed. I went from working four jobs to taking summers off to spend with my kids. I even stopped working a public job entirely for a few years but it eventually got to be boring so I went back to work part-time. I live on less a month than many earn in a week but my bills are paid and the majority of my time is my own to use as I please.You can do it too if you want. Read my books to learn how.

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      Confessions of a Cheapskate - Annie Jean Brewer

      CONFESSIONS OF A CHEAPSKATE

      BY:

      ANNIE JEAN BREWER

      ANNIENYGMA.COM

      COPYRIGHT 2015 BY ANNIE JEAN BREWER

      PUBLISHED BY ANNIE JEAN BREWER ON SMASHWORDS

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Dumpster Diving

      Family cloths

      - Menstrual cloths

      - Family cloth tutorial

      The no shampoo experiment

      Commando

      Winter coats and maternity clothes

      Stains

      Freezer jeans

      The Pepsi point summer

      Ghetto auto repairs

      Going car-free

      Staying cool

      Keeping warm

      Eating out for half-price

      Tomato soup

      Cheap meds

      Cigarette butts

      Bonus: Life after the first great depression

      Now what?

      About the author

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      Introduction

      I became a cheapskate out of necessity. You do what you have to when you've got kids to feed, no matter how crazy.

      In time, however, I realized that my shoestring ways empowered me. I was able to survive economic hits and take financial risks that sank many of my family and friends. As a result of that epiphany I started using my ability to stretch a dollar not only to save money, but to achieve my dreams of being a stay at home mother and a successful writer.

      When I was younger I must confess that I looked upon frugality with completely different eyes. I lived in a very poor area and many of the people around me looked at their lives in a negative light. Even worse, those who managed to escape poverty enjoyed coming back and making the rest of us feel like scum. Because of this I felt like a complete failure during my early years as an adult and even more so when I first became a single parent.

      In time I became angry. Why did the possession of money make them so much better than me? I wondered. I finally realized that it didn't, and that was when my life changed.

      I stopped worrying about what people thought about my income and me. I ceased to care if I had the nice things in life according to society's dictates.

      I started living life according to what made me happy instead.

      My kids were more important to me than being rich so I chose low-paying jobs that allowed me to spend time with them instead of high-paying positions that would have forced me to farm out my children to strangers. In order to make the money I did have last as long as possible, I made conserving it into a game. I would try new and crazy things just to see how well they worked. My reward for success was an easier life with my time spent doing what I wanted to do as opposed to slaving away on some assembly line or in a cubicle.

      Sometimes the experiments work, other times they flop. Many times the things I try end

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