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Enjoy Your Money!: How to Make It, Save It, Invest It and Give It | 
 enlarge | Author: J. Steve Miller
Publisher: Wisdom Creek Press
Category: Book
List Price: $15.99
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Rating:  22 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 270
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7 x 0.7
ISBN: 098187567X
Dewey Decimal Number: 332
EAN: 9780981875675
Publication Date: March 11, 2009
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Product Description
Most people aren't enjoying their money. Trapped in boring jobs and weighed down with debt, they can't seem to get ahead. Enjoy Your Money can help you - get out of debt and accumulate wealth
- get ahead, even when the work you love doesn't produce big bucks
- find your strengths and passions and make a living with them
- live a more fulfilled life.
Readers love its combination of solid research with an entertaining story line, making it the ideal financial book for people who don't like financial books. One professor called it "A fast, fun read with practical and often remarkable insights." A CPA observed, "It's rare and refreshing to find a book so enjoyable, so accurate, and so life changing."
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 Worse than an After-School special July 23, 2010
Lucas Trouten (Maple Grove, MN)
The entire book is written as a dialogue among a cast of four high school seniors, which makes each page look more like a screenplay than a helpful book on financial management. The writing has all the creativity of a poorly made after-school special, and trying to keep up with the story while gleaning budgeting advice is likely to leave you feeling mentally bankrupt.
 Great book for Young Adults May 29, 2010
Shane Ede (Jamestown, ND)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Written in a conversational tone and with great examples that aren't overly complicated, this book would make a great educational book for the middle school or high school kids you know. It's well written, but the conversation understandably breaks down slightly under the load of its topic. Because of that, it's not quite a 5 star book, but it really is a 4.5 easily. A great way to introduce some of the key personal finance topics to all ages.
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Fabulous!!!!!!! March 29, 2010
Moneymonk (Atlanta, Ga)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was a good read. A Great gift for the Generation Y.
It gives powerful details without the overly sophistication and intimidating words most personal finance books have. Easy to understand and comprehend.
Most personal finance books can be boring, not this book.
J. Steve Miller has done a fantastic job on bringing a conversion between four young adults and the way they view money in a better light.
Truly recommend!
Sorely needed guide -- esp. for those whose money is always slipping through their fingers January 27, 2010
Richard Moheban (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The biggest financial crisis of a generation was certainly made more severe by roughly half of Americans failing to have any savings. As home values plummeted and unemployment climbed, the resulting shock made many unwilling or unable to spend as they had before, fueling an agonizing economic contraction on top of the already severe debt crisis. Fewer people having to live paycheck to paycheck would have really eased this ensuing recession. It's too bad this book couldn't have been required reading for these folks some years ago.
The author makes easy reading of key principles of personal finance--even for those who normally hate reading the stuff. He uses the unusual medium of a story that reads not unlike a novel: Four young adults who lack financial savvy are mentored by an elderly woman who turned around her indebtedness and modest income and transformed it into a fortune over the years. The five meet for regular breakfasts at a diner, and the principles of financial independence are taught through their dialogue. The author is realistic in emphasizing the cumulative power of saving money through careful spending habits more so than finding ways to make a lot of money.
If there is a book anywhere that can engage the people who hate to deal with their finances, this is it! I'm degreed in Finance and have actively invested and followed economics for decades, but I still found quite a few interesting tidbits in this book, mostly in the form of quotes and statistics. The author did a tremendous job of digging up quotes and stats to make a big impact on the reader. Whether he's telling a story about Warren Buffett or warning about risky investments, he cites authoritative sources, so that those who want to delve deeper know where to go. He also does a fine job addressing both what to do and what _not_ to do with your money.
`You build wealth by living beneath your means. You lose money by living above your means.' September 17, 2009
J. Cameron-Smith (ACT, Australia)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is an informative and entertaining book about personal finance. While some of the detailed information is specific to the USA, all of the principles are universal.
This book follows the adventures of four diverse students (the Counterculture Club) led by an interesting financially savvy teacher. The teacher, Mrs Kramer, agrees to mentor the students as they learn about earning money and controlling expenses. The strength of this book, in my view, is that it focuses on each of the students as individuals and recognises that each has different strengths, desires and aspirations.
This book is primarily directed to those aged between 16 and 32, but there is information there useful to those of us outside that age range. Consider these four issues: getting out of debt and accumulating wealth; finding your strengths and passions and how to make a living from them; how to get ahead when the work you love does not produce a lot of money; and living a more fulfilled life. Consideration of these issues is framed in a way which should particularly appeal to Generation Y - but it isn't too late for the rest of us.
The book is divided into four parts:
Investing Money
Saving Money
Making Money
Enjoying Money
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and especially enjoyed the way in which all of the participants learned from each other. This book would be a great asset to any household.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
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