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Karen Reed is the winner of my review copy of “Enjoy Your Money!: How to Make It, Save It, Invest It and Give It”. I asked you guys who your financial role model was and Karen said it was her mother. She wrote:
MY financial role model, without a doubt, is my mother. She grew up during the depression and knew what it was like to literally have nothing. She taught me from a very early age that even pennies make dollars. Most people if they drop a penny will leave it. I pick it up and so do my kids! MY mother has taught me to not live beyond my means, which in this world is sometimes hard to do.
Karen, I can only imagine (more…)
Personal finance books don’t have to be boring. “Enjoy Your Money!: How to Make It, Save It, Invest It and Give It”
You’re never too young or too old to discover these ageless principles. They apply to the seasoned business executives as well as the entrepreneur with his first lemonade stand. Warren Buffet caught his vision at age five and started investing at age 11. My grandmother started multiplying her money in her mid-60’s. At age one hundred and two, with her sharp mind intact, she’s accumulated a small fortune.
Miller’s 254-page book is geared towards young people. He writes about four culturally diverse high school seniors who meet in in-school suspension and discover that their parents suck at (more…)
