What Kiwis need to know to survive the recession

Survive the Crunch!
What Kiwis need to know to survive the recession
by Catriona MacLennan

RELEASE DATE: JUNE 2009 | RRP: $24.99 | HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS

New Zealand headlines about the recession are increasingly getting worse: Recession likely to be deeper than forecast; Recession, now in its 17th month, is the longest since World War II.

And the fear of losing our jobs is becoming a reality: a survey earlier this year found 28 per cent of New Zealanders were worried about being made redundant.

What can we do? Auckland lawyer and journalist Catriona MacLennan can help us plan to get through the recession in one piece with her new book, Survive the Crunch!

Survive the Crunch! is a book for the current difficult times. It's easy to read, pragmatic and full of indispensable information.

Survive the Crunch! helps you overhaul your finances — increasing what comes in, reducing what goes out, and making the most of what you've already got. It has hundreds of great ideas including advice on:

• 17+ ways to hang on to your job
• How to get what you're due if redundancy strikes
• How to take control of your spending
• 30+ ways to save money on your mortgage, credit card and bank fees
• 20+ ways to save on personal expenses
• 20 ways to save on power
• 20+ ways to save on water
• 25+ ways to reduce your food bill
• Money for parents
• 25+ ways to save on holidays and entertainment
• 15+ ways to save on clothes and make-up
• 20+ ways to bring up children without spending a fortune

Survive the Crunch! features 17 steps to make yourself indispensable in your workplace, shows how you can redundancy-proof your financial affairs in less than an hour, and gives lots of ideas to save money in all areas of your life.

Catriona, with her legal background, also shows you how to negotiate with banks, including commonsense financial management.

About Catriona MacLennan
Catriona is a barrister and has practised law in South Auckland for the past 12 years.

She has extensive experience in the field of domestic violence and practised in a wide range of legal fields including consumer, employment, criminal and family.

Catriona's clients are some of the most disadvantaged people in New Zealand, who find it difficult to access lawyers or to obtain redress through the courts. Catriona uses her experience and contacts as a former Parliamentary Press Gallery journalist to lobby for law changes to improve the situation for her clients.

She also acts for beneficiaries not receiving their full entitlements from WINZ, and has taken a number of cases which have resulted in WINZ cancelling debts of thousands of dollars claimed against clients.

She is a well-known media commentator who specialises in legal, social and animal rights issues.

Catriona's previous book was Ready for Anything: Growing older in New Zealand - what you need to know, and she is the bestselling author of Know Your Rights - A Practical Guide to the Law for Every New Zealand Household, and the author of Home Truths and Kitchen Table Millionaire.

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