Your Money Or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence

Joe Dominguez, Vicki Robin

Penguin Books, 1993 - Business & Economics - 350 pages

More than three-quarters of a million people everywhere, from all walks of life, have found the keys to gaining control of their money -- and their lives -- in this comprehensive and revolutionary book on money management. Considered the bible of the voluntary simplicity movement, Your Money or Your Life is now updated with a new Preface, Index, and Resource list to help you put the program into practice. This simple, nine-step program shows you how to:
-- get out of debt and develop savings
-- slow down the work-and-spend treadmill
-- make values-based decisions about your spending
-- save the planet while saving money

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User Review  - krau0098 - LibraryThing

This was recommended as a good “money lifestyle” read on one of the YouTube channels I follow (The Financial Diet). It feels a bit dated at times but overall did offer up some interesting financial ...

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User Review  - grumpydan - LibraryThing

I found this book to be quite informative, especially for those who are beginning to handle their own finances. I have been tracking my finances for some time and recently watching those expenses so ...

Contents

• The Old Road Map for Money: 1
• Money Aint What It Used to: 40
• Where Is It All Going?: 76

About the author

Joe Dominguez was born on February 2, 1938. Considered a pioneer in the sustainability movement, he, together with partner Vicki Robin, co-authored the best-seller Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence. Dominguez was 31 years of age when he retired from a job as a technical stock analyst on Wall Street with a nest egg of about $70,000. He continued to live off of the investment income, about $6,000 a year, with a strong desire to tell others how to do the same. The proceeds of his book sales and other efforts to increase financial literacy have been donated to the New Road Map Foundation, an all-volunteer, non-profit foundation founded to promote the reduction of North American consumption. Dominguez died of cancer in Seattle on January 11, 1997.

Vicki Robinis a renowned innovator, writer, and speaker. In addition to coauthoring the bestselling Your Money or Your Life, Robin has been at the forefront of the sustainable living movement. She has received awards from Co-Op America and Sustainable Northwest and was profiled in Utne Magazine 's book Visionaries: People and Ideas to Change Your Life. She lives on Whidbey Island in Washington.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Your Money Or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence
• Authors: Joe Dominguez, Vicki Robin
• Edition: 2, reprint
• Publisher: Penguin Books, 1993
• ISBN: 0140167153, 9780140167153
• Length: 350 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Personal Finance / Money Management; Self-Help / General