Money Drunk/Money Sober: 90 Days to Financial Freedom

I have always had problems with spending money. I would classify myself as a compulsive spender in the past. This book was enlightening and makes even more sense now that I've been diagnosed as Bi-Polar because during manic periods, compulsive behavior, including over-spending, is a real problem for me. Money drunk refers to the high that the money drunk gets while spending.

I stumbled across this book after reading Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way. I wouldn't have thought of myself as an artist or someone with a money addiction, but I liked her week to week approach to both efforts that I was compelled to read more.This book, Money Drunk, Money Sober: 90 Days to Financial Freedom, is less about reaching financial freedom than it is about breaking our money addictions. Cameron focuses on five addictions in particular: The Compulsive Spender, The Big Deal Chaser, The [...]

This is one of the best little books on financial solvency that I have ever read. Not only does it tell one how to solve financial woes, it explores the WHY and HOW people became that way in the first place. It links money to addiction. In fact, the authors say money issues may be the underlying addiction to alcoholism, overeating, and many others. Most often it can be linked back to childhood and low self esteem issues. They give anecdotal evidence to back it up. They also describe at length th [...]

This little book is one of the best books, on money, that I have ever read. This one helps us to see why we have the relationships we do with money. This is the only book I know that treats money problems for what it is addiction. Money brings about such strong emotions and chemical reactions in the brain, it only makes sense to treat it in such a way. It helps to identify several "types" of people, but you will see pieces of yourself (and everyone else) in each type. Read this book with an open [...]

Dated, for one thing, published in 1992, pre-Recession where there are a whole lot of other things to factor inke genuine poverty versus careless spending. It identifies "types" and ways to overcome bad money management habits, a lot of it based on AA principles--admit you have a problem, why you might be prone to handling money the way you do, etc but if you are truly poor and have very little money, this certainly doesn't give you solutions for overcoming this problem of "lack of money," other [...]

A book I feel everyone should read. It gives you knowledge about yourself in regards to how you spend your money and why. Then it teaches you how to manage your money better. As my son began handling his own finances I gave him this book to read. He still uses this method.

It's an okay okay book on money management. Some concepts are interesting. How people's early memories about money determined their money behavior. But many concepts are written in better ways in other books like Rich Dad, Poor Dad

This book helped me discover so much about myself. Not only my spending style but where all my hard earned money went. I think its ability to open my vision and discover these things helped me dramatically. I suggest this for anyone that is learning how to handle money.

Excellent! Cannot believe I have never read this book!

This was insightful in how we often attach ourseves to money. I refer back to it when I feel off.

This is probably the best and most useful financial book I have ever readd I've read almost all of them. Published in 1992 but still current and relevant.

I got this book because I wanted to explore my emotional relationship with money. I have since recommended it to my family and gf.