Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Frugal Living for the 21st Century
Marie Brack · 2015
69/100
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Brack writes like a friend giving you the rundown, backing it up with her own numbers — 30% off groceries, 80% off grooming — across seventeen chapters plus a real bibliography. It picked up an actual outside review and shows up in other frugal-living roundups, which puts it a notch above most of the self-published crowd here, though still just shy of a firm recommend.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness70
Craft & writing65
Originality58
Evidence & accuracy62
Hype vs delivers58
Age-fit78
Human-eye read68
Penny’s verdict69
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