Sixty Minute Debt Buster: An hour to transform your finances

by Katie Clarke, Rob Parsons

Overview

We are being ravaged by debt - soaring credit card bills, mortgage arrears and letters from debt-collection agencies are common in many homes. Debt doesn't just bring financial worries; it attacks our sense of self-worth, affects our health and often destroys our relationships. The Sixty Minute Debt Buster is written with the express aim of bringing practical help that is easy to understand and can be put into practice quickly. If you want to avoid debt, this is for you; and if you are one of the many for whom debt worries are a daily trauma you dare not miss this book - it has the power to save your home and your health, and set you on the road to financial freedom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745953427
Publisher:	Lion Hudson
Publication date:	01/23/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.12(w) x 7.75(h) x (d)

About the Author

Katie Clarke is a lawyer and debt counsellor.

Rob Parsons is an international speaker on family life and business anda best-selling author. Each year he addresses thousands of people in live seminars, as well as on radio, television and film. In 1988 Rob founded 'Care for the Family', a charitable organisation which aims to promotestrong family life and help those hurting because of family breakdown.Since it first began over 320,000 people have attended family-building events and courses run by the charity and thousands more families find support through its resources and other initiatives. Rob is particularly passionate about helping parents relate to their children, particularly their teenagers. His writing on this topic often reflects what he considers are areas where he feels he could have done better in the fatherhooddepartment. Rob's books include 'The Sixty Minute Family', 'Getting YourKids Through Church' and 'The Heart of Success', which reached Number 1in the Booktrack Business & Management List and Number 2 in The SundayTimes Business Books List. More than half a million copies of his bookshave been sold worldwide in 12 languages. Rob and his wife Dianne live in Cardiff and have been married for 37 years. They have two grown up children.

Table of Contents

Contents
Chapter 1 You’ve Come to the Right Place 7
Chapter 2 Sizing Up the Problem 18
Chapter 3 Who to Pay First 31
Case study: The Real Cost of Credit Cards 40
Chapter 4 The Magic of Credit Cards – And the Tricks They Play on You 44
Chapter 5 Plastic Surgery! 57
Chapter 6 Back to Cash 63
Chapter 7 When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Go Shopping 70
Case study: Trauma at the Hole in the Wall 78
Chapter 8 Home Sweet Home: Saving Your House from Repossession 83
Chapter 9 Why Carol Vorderman is Not Necessarily Right 95
Chapter 10 Last Resorts 103
The Biggest Smile 108
The Future’s Bright 113
References 118
Appendix 120
Useful contacts 124

Editorial Reviews

An accessible, encouraging and practical book on how to break free of debt

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