Cash in the City: Affording Manolos, Martinis, and Manicures on a Working Girl's Salary [Paperback]

Juliette Fairley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 26, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0471209813 | ISBN-13: 978-0471209812 | Edition: 1

A Girl's Guide to Managing the Money You Make While Living the Life You Want

"Cash in the City is destined to become the urban girl's ultimate guide to a glamorous lifestyle . . . on a shoestring salary. It's overflowing with sage advice for living well, looking good, and having fun. I also found a very powerful and upbeat message for young women everywhere-You can create whatever life you desire . . . if you know how to do it right. Juliette Fairley shows the reader precisely, and with great flair, how to do just that."
-Barbara Stanny, author of Prince Charming Isn't Coming: How Women Get Smart About Money

Looking and feeling good is expensive-especially in America's big cities. From New York City to Los Angeles, single, young, working women in big cities are finding it increasingly difficult to live up to the standards set in TV and movies. No longer do you have to sacrifice a night on the town in order to afford those shoes you must have. By combining financial advice with real-life issues, Cash in the City shows you how to have it all and do it all without breaking the bank. In this first-of-its-kind book, you'll learn how to live the glamorous life, get weekly pedicures, and pay your bills on time!

Cash in the City will help you overcome the obstacles that every hip young woman from San Francisco to Atlanta, Chicago to Boston faces. You'll quickly learn how to avoid money missteps and keep your finances in order while you decorate your apartment, keep yourself looking good, and negotiate for a raise. Dig in your high heels, crack open this book, and find out how to live life to the fullest, even on a budget. You can be an "It" girl and financially savvy all at the same time.

Editorial Reviews

Review

How do those beautiful women in HBO's Sex and the City afford the wine, the clubs, the shoes? Well, Juliette Fairley, author of Cash in the City: Affording Manolos, Martinis, and Manicures on a Working Girl's Salary can tell you how. In this funny and surprisingly practical book, Fairley lays out the financial rules for 20 and 30-something women of the city. Far from focusing on the martini side of her title, Farley details the pitfalls of debt, erases some common money myths and just plain brings girls of a certain age back to their senses about their love affair with the almighty dollar. ( BookPage, April 2002)

Did you ever wish that you, too, could live the lifestyle popularized by the chic, chic single gals on Sex and the City?

Cash in the City: Affording Manolos, Martinis, and Manicures on a Working Girl's Salary by Juliette Fairley may help you achieve your inner fabulousness while not separating you from too much of your hard-earned money.

Many of the tips are reasonably doable. Among them:
* Pay down your debt, and don't take on any more.
* Start saving, the earlier the better.
* Take advantage of your company's 401(k).
There's always an eager audience for shopping advice, and Fairley is ready: Always buy on sale, invest in a classic wardrobe, hit the outlets (addresses and descriptions for discount shopping centers in different cities are included in the ''Resources'' section), buy cosmetics at the drugstore instead of the department store. And decorate your overpriced, undersized urban dwelling with fun accessories (two words: throw pillows).

Her advice on the subject of waiting for Prince Charming to whisk you off and solve your financial woes? Don't. It's your financial life; you're responsible for tending to its health.

The over-30 crowd may find some of the suggestions impractical. For instance: How many older women do you know who are willing to live with a roommate? Or buy clothes sight unseen off eBay? Or allow a beauty student to style and color her hair, regardless of the savings?

Census 2000 reveals that there are about 12 million women who fall under the category of ''female householder, no spouse present,'' which translates to about 12% of all households. For these women, the most useful advice of all is to educate yourself about, and take charge of, your finances. That tip is ageless. (USA Today, May 13, 2002)

From the Back Cover

A Girl’s Guide to Managing the Money You Make While Living the Life You Want

"Cash in the City is destined to become the urban girl’s ultimate guide to a glamorous lifestyle . . . on a shoestring salary. It’s overflowing with sage advice for living well, looking good, and having fun. I also found a very powerful and upbeat message for young women everywhere–You can create whatever life you desire . . . if you know how to do it right. Juliette Fairley shows the reader precisely, and with great flair, how to do just that."
–Barbara Stanny, author of Prince Charming Isn’t Coming: How Women Get Smart About Money

Looking and feeling good is expensive–especially in America’s big cities. From New York City to Los Angeles, single, young, working women in big cities are finding it increasingly difficult to live up to the standards set in TV and movies. No longer do you have to sacrifice a night on the town in order to afford those shoes you must have. By combining financial advice with real-life issues, Cash in the City shows you how to have it all and do it all without breaking the bank. In this first-of-its-kind book, you’ll learn how to live the glamorous life, get weekly pedicures, and pay your bills on time!

Cash in the City will help you overcome the obstacles that every hip young woman from San Francisco to Atlanta, Chicago to Boston faces. You’ll quickly learn how to avoid money missteps and keep your finances in order while you decorate your apartment, keep yourself looking good, and negotiate for a raise. Dig in your high heels, crack open this book, and find out how to live life to the fullest, even on a budget. You can be an "It" girl and financially savvy all at the same time.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (February 26, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471209813
• ISBN-13: 978-0471209812
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #443,499 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Lacking in Content, July 26, 2004

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Jody (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cash in the City: Affording Manolos, Martinis, and Manicures on a Working Girl's Salary (Paperback)

As the last reviewer indicated, this book does indeed have a catchy title. What lies within thought is not anything quite as catchy. Most tips are briefly touched upon without going into more in depth detail. The book seems to be written for single women and even goes as far as to give tips on obtaining and keeping men. Which is out of the subject title boundaries. If the tips were good, I might have been ok with that. The tips were poor, one example being don't have too neat of an apartment because men don't like that. Better advice - just be yourself rather that worrying whether your apartment is too neat. Most men, from my experience, really don't care.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a useful gift!, March 17, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Cash in the City: Affording Manolos, Martinis, and Manicures on a Working Girl's Salary (Paperback)

Everyone can get help with Cash in the City! I bought the book with my granddaughters in mind but I got some tips for my own good: how to use the internet sites to save money on designer clothes, for example, and volunteer as an usher to see the latest plays/shows free of charge. That's a big saving!
I enjoyed the case scenarios after each section; they put things in perpective; it's about real situations and what was done to overcome the problems.I believe Cash in the City will be a useful gift for people, like my granddaughters, starting a life of their own because they can refer to the situations and avoid common mistakes such as living day-to-day spending money foolishly.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not Pleased, June 23, 2005

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C. Brooks "Book lover" (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cash in the City: Affording Manolos, Martinis, and Manicures on a Working Girl's Salary (Paperback)

If I could I would have given this book no stars. The title is the best thing about this book. The comparisons between "City Girls" vs "Country Girl" really irritated me. She also wrote how just walking down the street in the big city you spend all your money. The section on decoration your home and your guy why should you decorate your place just to please someone else. If you like "flowers" I think you should add them.

I'm glad I saved my money and checked this book out from the library before I bought it.