FREE DOWNLOAD: Beyond Getting By — Chapter 6 [How To End Your "Being Cheap" Era For Good]

One year ago, we published our second book, Beyond Getting By: The Financial Diet’s Guide To Abundant & Intentional Living. I’ll be honest: I did not really expect that we’d be experiencing a second Trump term while I was writing the book. Looking back, that was probably a combination of political naivete and wishful thinking that the Democrats wouldn’t sabotage their standing with their own base time and time again. And lately, I’ve been wondering how I would have approached writing the book differently had I known this was what we were in for.

Truthfully, I don’t think any of my stances outlined in the book have changed. Maybe the anecdotes used to illustrate our messed-up cultural relationships with things like consumerism and hustle culture would be different now (Kim Kardashian lamenting how “nobody wants to work these days” feels like a trillion years ago). But the biggest takeaways from Beyond Getting By ring truer to me than ever: we can’t let our lives be ruled by work for the sake of work and consumption for the sake of consumption, and the more control we have over our finances, the more options we give ourselves. 

In honor of BGB spending a year gracing bookshelves with practical advice paired with beautiful design rarely (if ever) seen in the personal finance section of Barnes & Noble, I wanted to share one of my favorite sections exclusively with our wonderful newsletter subscribers, all about making the shift from cheap excess to real abundance in our consumption. (Who knows — maybe it will even aid you in your spring cleaning efforts!) I’m so proud of this book and can’t believe it’s already been out in the world for a whole year!

Thank you for reading, and for your continued championing of what we believe in here at TFD.