Reviews

Green with Envy: Why Keeping Up with the Joneses Is Keeping Us in Debt by Shira Boss

cdjdhj's review against another edition

5.0

I got this book for 50 cents off a clearance table at Big Lots. It proved to be quite a bargain. I enjoyed reading this book and learned a lot about why we have some of the attitudes we do about money and why we often do stupid things with money as we compare ourselves and our financial situations with others. Often what we think we see with regard to other people and money, is not reality at all. This book gives great insight into personal finances -- our own and others. It talks about debt, bancruptcy and the financial problems of others we never see. Written in 2006, it is probably more relevent today after the financial melt-down, then it was when it was originally published.

mcsangel2's review against another edition

3.0

I really, really enjoyed reading the anecdotes. Just wish the book had been longer!

edalferro's review against another edition

3.0

I've been thinking a lot about money lately (unemployment will do that to you) and picked up this book as a result of that. It talks about the way money and envy of those with it shapes our society. A pretty honest and frank look at the subject.