Debt-Proof Living: The Complete Guide to Living Financially Free

There are plenty of heavily pedigreed personal-finance experts dishing out good advice, but not many who know what it’s like to have to eat ramen all month to make a automobile payment. On the other hand, there’s Mary Hunt, a recovered credit card addict whose free-spending ways landed her family in the middle of $100,000 of unsecured debt in the early 1980s. Pulling herself out of that morass gave Hunt the courage to strike out on her own as a writer, motivational speaker, and the brains behind The Cheapskate Monthly, a newsletter and Web site (www.cheapsk8.com) dedicated to promoting the art of living within one’s means, a message that grows ever more important as the average American family struggles each year to pay $1,200 in interest alone on revolving, unsecured debt. While Hunt’s previous books have echoed some consistent themes–debt bad, saving good–they’ve addressed a hodgepodge of different areas: building financial confidence in women a (more…)

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