Manage Your Money Like a F*cking Grown-Up: The Best Money Advice You Never Got
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You’re going to earn plenty of money over your lifetime. Are you going to waste it on stupid crap that doesn’t make you happy, or let it buy your freedom and your most audacious dreams?
We never get an instruction manual about how money works. Most of what we learn about money comes from advertising or from other people who know as little as we do. No wonder we make such basic mistakes. No wonder we feel disempowered and scared. No wonder so many of us just decide to stick our heads in the damn sand and never deal with it. In Manage Your Money Like a F*cking Grown Up, Sam Beckbessinger tells it to you straight: how to take control of your money to take control of your life.
In this clear and engaging basic guide to managing your finances, you will learn:
– How to trick your dumb brain into saving more, without giving up fun
– How to make a bona fide grown-up budget
– Why you need to forget what you’ve learned about credit
– How to negotiate a raise
– Why buying a house (probably) won’t make you rich
– The one super-simple investment you need
With helpful exercises, informative illustrations (also: kittens) and straightforward advice, this book doesn’t shy away from the psychology of money, and is empowering, humorous and helpful. The book you wish you’d had at 25, but is never too late to read.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Robinson (18 April 2019) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 256 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1472143442 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1472143440 |
| Dimensions | 15.56 x 1.91 x 23.5 cm |
by Stephen Green
This book can be read and understood by people at all levels. However clever you are you can also benefit by asking yourself whether you are doing the basics and understanding that money matters are heavily intertwined with emotions, attitudes and personality. This is not just like reading numbers. The author carved through your pretence and delusion with straight taking, reality and humour. It is written for the British side of the pond so no talk of 401k’s etc to confuse the reader. It gives special attention to female readers as they may need to support children, work less, experience lower pay and have a longer old age. The author understands how money is connected to the realities of ordinary life and the struggle to keep your head above water.
by wintermute
Consciously matey writing style and the gleeful unnecessary swearing of 12 year olds trying to impress each other, but there is some sound advice in this book. If you’re the kind of person who still laughs at the packaging of Innocent™️ smoothies, this will be right up your alley. Of note is that it mentions resources on a linked website. This is now a subscription website the author runs (taking their own advice about side hustles) so isn’t accessible simply by dint of having bought the book, if it ever was.
by Gill
I wanted to learn more about how to manage my money better & this book really helped. It has a lot of detail but explained in a way I could understand as a person who has never invested or done much more than hold savings accounts and a pension. Some of the language is informal and aimed at the age group it’s really for (20s to 30s). But I think you’re never too old to learn & with 20 more years before retirement, when I intend not to be old & poor (thanks to this book I now hope not to be), I feel confident in making the right plans to increase the money I have & earn
by Ash
To the point book, though common sense knowledge
by sese3003
Just started it last night. Went from 2am to 4am in the space of 5min I was submerged. Reading the book I’ve already found some helpful guidance to start using my money wisely. Writer adds a lot of adult humour throughout the book so instead reading it like you’re being told off it feels like you’re chatting with a friend who actually knows how to be in charge of your own money and financial freedom. Can’t wait to finish it and live a financially free life ????
by Taantawan
Simple understandable steps to savings .
Short and sweet.
This book was the proverbial kick up the rear end I needed, to get my finances on track .
by Jason Hopkins
found this book really usefui to structure my finances and motivate me to keep them organised, i havent been able to convince anyone to read it but have use some of the lesson to talk my girlfriend about her fiances and am teaching my goddaughter who recently turn 16 the importance of a emergancy fund and thinking about what she want her money to do before spending it
by sese3003
It is not often I am itching to get back to a book but this one had me gripped… not a typical comment for a book on finances, I just really wish I was in a position to have one all this when I was younger… better late than never right?