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The Money Diet
The bestselling guide to saving serious cash

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The Money Diet

The bestselling step-by-step detailed guide to saving money, cutting debts and getting more for less.

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£4.49 at Play.com* (includes delivery)
£4.97 at Amazon.com* (inc. delivery if you spend £15 or more)

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The Money Diet


The Money Diet book is my baby, I'd always wanted to try and put the techniques, strategy and philosophy of MoneySaving in one place, so when the first edition of the Money Diet was published in March 2004, it was a very proud moment.


I originally told my publisher it'd have a shelf-life of 18 months as the world of money moves so fast. Yet when I sat down with the task of rewriting and updating it for the second edition, I was surprised to discover most of the book was still relevant. Plus as MoneySaving has developed I had another 100 pages of new stuff to add.

What's in it?

The book is split into a number of MoneySaving sections:



 The Calorie Counter. A product by product list of ways to save money, looking at how much you'll save, how long it takes and whether it's hard or easy to do.

 Financial Fitness for Life. This is all about how to think like a smart consumer and stop being ripped off. It focuses on 10 golden ingredients including: Forget Loyalty; the Piggybanking Budgeting Technique; Know Yourself; High Street Haggling; Getting Your Own Back; and, of course, Spotting Loopholes.

 The Crash Diet. No spiel, I won't lie to you. This section is similar to the stuff this site, but in a different format.


 Healthy Eating. My complete guide to saving money on mortgages, debt and credit cards. A range of new techniques, with a holistic approach, interlinking what debt to use when and how, plus special sections on how credit scoring really works and what to do if you are in debt crisis.


 The Adversarial Consumer Society. To be totally honest this section is a bit of a personal indulgence. The adversarial consumer society is my philosophy, my passion and my politics and it's what drives me and MoneySaving. It explains the ‘companies are the enemy' stance behind MoneySaving; sales staff get training to close deals, so why shouldn't consumers have buying training?

This is a conversation as well as a guide. I wanted it to feel more like an easy chat than a lecture, so it's peppered with my personal 'Martin's Money Memories' - stories about me, the media, people I've met and their money.

The Money Diet

RRP: £7.99 Publisher: Random House Seller: Play ISBN: 0091906881

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The list price of The Money Diet is £7.99 yet as always it's possible to undercut the Recommended Retail Price. The current online cheapest is Play.com* at £4.49.

This article will be regularly updated with the cheapest price, but it's always worth checking a shopping comparison site, such as Pricerunner* or Kelkoo* (see the Cheapest Online Shopping article for more info).


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