TY - BOOK AU - Dogen,Sam TI - Buy this, not that: how to spend your way to wealth and freedom SN - 9780593328774 AV - HG179 .D57 2022 U1 - 332.024 23/eng/20220506 PY - 2022///] CY - [New York] PB - Portfolio / Penguin KW - Finance, Personal KW - Consumption (Economics) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "Sam Dogen's Financial Samurai blog has helped over 70 million people achieve financial freedom. Now, he shares his no-nonsense playbook to build wealth and retire early through smarter spending. When it comes to our money, many of us believe that to acquire more we have to spend less. But the truth is that a mindset of skimping and frugality can lead you to miss opportunities for income growth and kill your dreams of early retirement. To live our best life today-while planning for an even better tomorrow-we need to make smarter, not fewer, spending decisions. In Buy This, Not That, Dogen shares his brass-tacks strategies for building wealth, no matter how much money you have in the bank. With hard numbers and his signature straight talk, Dogen reveals the spending dos and donts for the biggest, and the smallest, purchases of your life. In topics ranging from career, to education, to family and parenting, to lifestyle and real-estate-Dogen shows how to calculate your optimal calorie-per-dollar budget. You don't need to be a millionaire or a genius to achieve financial freedom. It's about making the most of your money, now, and forever-and it's never too late to get started"-- ER -