Pogue's Basics: Money: Essential Tips and Shortcuts (That No One Bothers to Tell You) About Beating the System

by David Pogue

Overview

Want to know where you can buy $100 iTunes gift cards for $85?
Did you know you can pay your taxes by using a cash-back credit card?
Why are you still paying $235 a year to rent your cable box?

You're leaving money on the table every day, with every transaction you make: changing your oil, withdrawing ATM cash, booking flights, buying insurance, shopping for clothes, squirting toothpaste. But in Pogue's Basics: Money, the third book of this New York Times bestselling series, David Pogue proves that information is money. Each of his 150 simple tips and tricks includes a ballpark estimate of the money you could make or save. Okay, you won't use every tip in the book—but if you did, you'd come ahead by $61,195 a year.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250081414
Publisher:	Flatiron Books
Publication date:	11/22/2016
Series:	Pogue's Basics
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	1,077,006
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

DAVID POGUE is a New York Times bestselling author who has more than 1.5 million followers on Twitter, has given four TED talks, and is the founder of Yahoo Tech, a consumer-technology site for non-technicians. He writes a monthly column for Scientific American, and for thirteen years, he wrote the tech column for The New York Times. Pogue also hosts science shows on PBS's NOVA and appears frequently on CBS Sunday Morning. He has won three Emmys, two Webby Awards, and a Loeb Award for journalism. He's written eighty books, including the previous books in the series, Pogue's Basics: Life and Pogue's Basics: Tech.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Shopping Hacks
Chapter 2: Credit Cards
Chapter 3: Gift-Card Hacks
Chapter 4: House and Home
Chapter 5: Tech and TV
Chapter 6: Travel
Chapter 7: Cars
Chapter 8: Food and Drink
Chapter 9: Your Body
Chapter 10: How to Exploit Group Buying Power
Chapter 11: Make Money with No Effort
Chapter 12: The Last Legal Tax Dodges
Chapter 13: The Personal Money Checkup
Chapter 14: Financial Brain Hacks

Editorial Reviews

"David Pogue is back with the third installment in his bestselling series. This time, Pogue fills the pages with lesser known tips on how to save and make money.... Whatever it is, Pogue has the inside scoop on how to get it done." —Atlanta Journal-Constitution

From the Publisher

06/15/2016
Author of the New York Times best sellers Pogue's Basics: Tech and Pogue's Basics: Life, a columnist for Scientific American, and formerly tech columnist for the New York Times, Pogue here offers 200 simple ideas for managing your finances mores successfully.

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