Lately it seems that all I publish are giveaways, with relatively little real writing. I blame sudden illness, a new job and some additional freelance opportunities.
Not that I don’t like giving things away. I do. That’s why I have a weekly contest. This week it’s, “Be CentsAble: How to Cut Your Household Budget in Half,” by Chrissy Pate and Kristin McKee
The authors, who did cut their monthly spending by more than 50% each, promise that you don’t have to give up niceties like name brands or organic produce.
Pate and McKee even factor in the occasional splurge, which certainly helps keep people from losing their budgetary happy thoughts.
To enter:
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If you do any (or all!) of these things, please leave separate, additional comments to get credit for each entry.
The deadline is 9 p.m. PST Monday, March 19. If I do not hear back from the winner by Wednesday night, I will choose another name.
I really enjoy your articles. I just discovered you a week or so ago, but have learned a lot from you already. I would really like to receive this book, especially as my budget includes NO books for a while (I love to buy books).
Ann
Sounds like a great book!
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It would be great to have a book to keep and not have to return to the library!
Facebook too.
This sounds like a great book!
I’m a twitter follower @franmark
I’m a Facebook fan.
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This book will really help me stay within budget.
This book sounds interesting. I would love to win.
Love your posts! And I’m still learning to drive on a budget.
That books sounds really good.
I subscribe via email also.
Would love the book!
And I get your blog via email!
And on fb!
I follow you via email.
This book would come in handy about now. We’ve had some higher than expected medical bills that, while we can afford to pay them, put a dent in our emergency fund.
Would love this book! Trying to cut expenses. Love to see a new email from you in my inbox every week! Thanks for writing!!!
Hope you are well soon. While I like a giveaway as much as the next guy, I really subscribe to any given blog for the writers comments. That having been said, it sounds like a very helpful book. Count me in!
I would love to get this book! It sounds like a challenge, and one that I could really use.
I think factoring splurges in is awesome and keeps you on track. I let myself buy coffee once a week – limits my spending on coffee and let me tell you, that coffee is savored!
Liked on facebook – feel better soon!
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I subscribe by e-mail, the old-fashioned way these days, I think.
Always look forward to receiving your posts via email – have learned so much from your blog. I think the book sounds facinating, and would love to be entered in the contest for a chance to win. Thank you!
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And I follow you on Twitter.
Would love to win a book.
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This sounds like an interesting book for me to read!
Hope your healing and feeing well!
FEELING well that is
I would love to learn how to cut my budget by 50%!
I would love to win this book.
Not to worry. I love your giveaways!
I’m an email subscriber
I follow on twitter (moeyshay)
This would help free up money for additional preps.
I could probably use this book. Am on a very limited income right now, and just can’t seem to get my grocery bill lower. Been trying most of the ideas, but hubby won’t eat too many beans, nor fish.
I would love to win this book!
I would love to read this book. It might help me to reach my goal a lot faster if I could use their tips to save even more. Retirement is so close and yet so far away.
I also follow you on Facebook. I read all of your articles looking for every tip that I can use to save, save, save!
I think I could learn a lot from this book.
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I’d love the book.
And Holly, it’s “YOU’RE”, not your
I’d love to have this book! My husband wants to retire in a few years and I’d sure like to make that possible for him. I still have 20 or so years to go before I get to retire. If I could find great ways to reduce our already frugal budget then my income could support us and he could get the break he deserves.
I hope you’re feeling better – being sick is no fun at all.
Karen
Sounds like an interesting read. I’m always a bit suspicious of anything that offers to cut my budget in half – I think being able to do that may depend on how much you’re spending in the first place! Still, it’s fun to read about and you can almost always pick up a few useful tips from anywhere.
Hope you have a great weekend!
I follow you here and
Frugal Cool and
Daily Worth and
Get Rich Slowly
Sounds useful–with the rising cost of gas putting a hole in our budget, I’m looking for new ideas!
Sounds like my kind of read!!!!!!!!!!
Hope you are feeling better soon! Thanks for the opportunity to win!
I subscribe via email.
Sounds like a fun read. Hope you’re feeling better!
Wow, could I use this book! I hope you’re feeling better soon, hang in there!
I subscribe via email
(love your blog)
…and on Facebook.
thanks!
I am always interested in what others do to save smart! I am one of those folks who sees a penny on the sidewalk and picks it up. It goes into a special piggy bank and when it’s full, that’s my splurge!
What do I do to save money that is unique? I round up to the nearest $5 when entering checks or debit expenses. It takes a bit to get used to, but by holiday time that is always extra to shop the big sales.
I always buy clothes out of season – usually right after Christmas. I live in the NW and most clothing can be worn year round.
I also think in annual terms and try to stock up on whatever is a really, really, really good sale for one year.
Lastly, I follow Donna here
and by e-mail
and on Get Rich Slowly!
throw my hat in the ring.
I could sure use some advice on how to cut my expenses.
I’ve followed you for years and have always found useful info – as well as giggles on a regular basis – without ever being bored. Viva la Donna! P.S. Would love to win this book. 🙂
I would like to win the book. My husband recently told me we needed to really cut back on our spending due to his recent (but hopefully temporary) disability. The checks are still coming in but at some point they will be a bit smaller.
If I win this book I’ll give it to him to read during his visits to the doc.
Who can’t use a book on cutting expenses !!
I’d love this book for myself and my adult children.
I entered the HGTV Dream House giveaway and read today that they received over 81 MILLION entries!! I’m thinking that my odds on THAT giveaway aren’t too good….but I’d love to win this one, since I have a lot of kids and really do need to reduce my spending! Here’s hoping that you don’t get 81 million comments! 🙂
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I follow you on Facebook, too!
Hope you’re recovered from the surgery! Sounds like an interesting book.
sounds like an useful book to have!
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Sounds like a great book that would he helpful at home. Hope you’re feeling better!
Would like to see if there’s anything I’ve missed! Thanks
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I’m an email subscriber. captainliss(at)gmail(dot)com
I’ve been reading your columns for years & they’ve helped me save in many areas. It would be great if the book could help me find other ways to save money on household budget items. Hope you’re feeling much better!
I would love to win this week!
This is on my Paperbackswap list and moving slowly. Please reward my patience and frugality by picking me to win.
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I follow you on Twitter.
Cut my budget in half !! Not sure my family would be onboard for this but if I could, it would be fabulous!
I am also an email subscriber.
I peeked at this on Amazon, it’s got some good reviews!! I love reading these sorts of books, because even if you don’t save that 50%, even if it’s just 5%…that’s still a savings!!
I get your emails!!
I’m subscribed via RSS feed.
I’d love this book, as I’d like to be able to afford to stay home with my daughter.
The book sounds great. Donna, I hope you are feeling better!
Yes, ImJuniperNow I know it should have been you’re and not your – that’s what I get for rushing while getting ready for work.
love your columns Donna!
Your site looks very interesting. I hope to learn even more from your posts for my benefit and to share with homeless and low income clients in my area.
Would love to win this!
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I’d be interested in learning something new about cutting costs.
I really could use this book. I am lucky to get a new job starting tomorrow after being laid-off 6 months ago – BUT it’s with a cut in pay. So I’ll need all the help I can get cutting back.
Thanks!!
I do follow you on Facebook !!
I also have your Blog on my Homepage so I see your up-dates immediately !
I am always looking for ways to save. I would enjoy this book. Feel better soon and I am happy you have some additional freelance opps!
I’d love to read this book! I’ve read the last few that you’ve given away and thought that they were good reads!
can’t wait to read some of these ideas! i subscribe via email.
and twitter!
facebook too!
Hope to win.
Love reading your columns. Book sounds very good, hope to win.
I am an e-mail subscriber on my work e-mail and I follow you on Facebook. I love your column. It’s funny and sensible. I would love the book because I teach Homebuyer Education and Financial Literacy and every additional savings tip I can hand out to my students is appreciated.
Lord have mercy…if I could learn how to cut my expenses like that, I would have no money worries. I want that book!
Thanks for the chance…please count me in.
This sounds like a great book for someone who is planning to retire soon like me! Would love to win it.
I would like to read this book, whether I win it or not. I’m on a fixed income, unable to work, and despite frugal efforts, I’m still in the hole each month.
I too would so like to read this book. It sounds like one to own rather than just ‘read’ from the library. My funds are limited despite two jobs, and every little bit helps.
“all I publish are giveaways”… Yeah, well, except for Monday the 12th’s post. I’d give away my soul to write one piece like that in a year, to say nothing of once every few weeks. 🙄
@Funny: You can’t see me, but I’m blushing. Thank you.
I love your blog! Please pick me.
Thanks for offering the book. I’m an aspiring writer who needs direction and answered prayer for guidance. I am full of words that need to be written. It’s frustrating but I HOLD ON to my dream of being a writer.
This book sounds great! I subscribed via email!