Many people fighting to be debt free focus on getting more for less. But there’s another side of the story, and Jeff Yeager is the man telling it to America.
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Yeager, who is the author of the insanely popular blog Wise Bread and the new book, The Ultimate Cheapskate’s Road Map to True Riches believes happiness comes not from getting good deals, but from having less in the first place.
Fresh off his appearance on the NBC Today Show, Yeager hit the road on the Tour de Cheapskate. Traveling by bicycle, Yeager he stayed with fellow cheapskates along the way and donating his expense savings to local libraries. That’s putting your money where your book and blog is.
So, what do you think? Are you ready to Yeager Up and ditch your cell phone (among other things) to reduce expenses? It’s a common sense idea, although radical for our time. Personally, I wouldn’t miss the phone much, but the camera and hand held computing device would be a deprivation of sorts.