".wry and insightful.Filled with dry wit and entertaining anecdotes, this provides a welcome sense of solidarity for anyone struggling to make ends meet." -- Publishers Weekly "Can a book be funny, deeply personal AND useful? Steve Burgess pulls off this unlikely trifecta, and he does so with aplomb. Brimming with insights and canny advice, Cheapskate in Lotusland is a trove of rich anecdotes. This is some mighty fine writing." -- Will Ferguson , three-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humor "Parsimony, like the past, is a foreign land where things are done differently. Never have those cheeseparing precincts known a better or more cheerful guide than the proudly and unrepentantly tight-fisted Steve Burgess.

In part a how-to manual and in part a confessional memoir, Cheapskate in Lotusland is a wide-ranging, well-researched, and unfailingly entertaining rationale for living cheaply as the best revenge. You might think that miserliness, like poetry, is ruined by analysis, but Burgess--a very good writer--will show you otherwise. Cheapskate in Lotusland is an excellent book, highly recommended, and available for free from your public library." -- Bill Richardson , broadcaster and author of The Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast.