Sam Dogen

Buy This, Not That: How to Spend Your Way to Wealth and Freedom Sam Dogen

Sam Dogen's Financial Samurai blog has helped over 70 million people achieve financial freedom. Now, he shares his no-nonsense playbook to build wealth and retire early through smarter spending.

When it comes to our money, many of us believe that to acquire more we have to spend less. But the truth is that a mindset of skimping and frugality can lead you to miss opportunities for income growth and kill your dreams of early retirement. To live our best life today--while planning for an even better tomorrow--we need to make smarter, not fewer, spending decisions.

In Buy This, Not That, Dogen shares his brass-tacks strategies for building wealth, no matter how much money you have in the bank. With hard numbers and his signature straight talk, Dogen reveals the spending dos and donts for the biggest, and the smallest, purchases of your life. You'll learn:
- Why splurging on takeout could pay off in the long run
- The benefits of owning one car for Dough and one car for Show, including Dogen's proprietary "1/10th Rule For Car Buying"
- What is "good debt" and "bad debt" - and the right way to pay down debt or invest
- How to build passive income through real estate even if you can't afford to buy investment property
- How to determine investment strategies that work for your goals and risk tolerance (active investing or passive investing? Growth or dividend stocks?)

In topics ranging from career, to education, to family and parenting, to lifestyle and real-estate--Dogen shows how to calculate your optimal calorie-per-dollar budget.

You don't need to be a millionaire or a genius to achieve financial freedom. It's about making the most of your money, now, and forever--and it's never too late to get started.