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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Money (3rd Edition)

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I love this book! Before reading this book, I wondered how anyone could ever save money in the world today. It has helped me to mangage my money easily. An easy to read book, which I use now as a reference whenever I have a question concerning my personal finances. I finally started a 401K, bought a house, a new car, and I am finally learning to save some money,instead of living paycheck to paycheck.

This book did a great job of explaining to the average person how to save, invest and avoid the common financial pitfalls we so often make. It was done with humor and wit, which is a breath of fresh air in this often hard to understand, jargon loaded industry. This book is beneficial to anyone who has thought about developing a financial plan but does not know how or where to begin. It is an easy read, fun and should be a required reading for the masses of people buried in credit card debt! Great job!!

This book gave me invaluable advice regarding my finances. I would highly recommend it to anyone and everyone! I have adopted many strategies in the book to save for a rainy day. Thank you, and when are you coming out with another edition?

After reading "Personal Finaince for Dummies", I highly recommend the Idiot's Guide to "Managing Your Money" instead. The material presented in this book covers a broad range of financial issues anyone can understand. This book is universal, and is relative to everyday business in your personal and business lives of today and what to plan for tomorrow. I give it an A+!

This has the basic knowledge need to manage your finacing ranging from simple budgeting, credit, stocks and mutual funds, Certificate of Deposit, how to read the market and the prime rate and what it all means. Also, it provides the mental mindset you need to manage and spend money properly, without resorting to short term spending splurges. There's tables for calcuating college funds, morgages, and retirements but most importantly how to avoid the many traps and scams many vendors use to make money off of you without providing any extra services. The one thing I found somewhat worrysome is the way the authors protrayed the banks and other institutions to the point of scaring the reader into being nearly paranoid of all financial instistutions. The fees these institutions charge are describe in the book with good details. A good "how to avoid pitfalls" book.

Contrary to some of the reviews I've read here, this book really helped me out with Managing my Money. I now have better control over my finances and am almost out of debt. The simple secret is applying what they teach.

This is one of the worst "money managing" books I've ever read. I couldn't put this book down fast enough. Talk about cutting corners!! For example, in Chapter 4, they define "yeild" and "rate", but do not define what a CD is -- they just mention "CD". The book is so poorly organized. The amount of space and ink that's wasted on the inane humor could have been used wisely for elaborate explantions. Just opt for a clearly-written economics book instead of "Managing Your Money".

Bought this for my daughter. She called me and was so excited.
It is written so you can understand about managing your money.
I bought it as a early birhtday gift for my 20 something daughter
so she doesn't make the dumb mistakes I did when I was her age.
Highly recommend.

Anyone can easily understand and make a decision about their personal financial future, and also what the best approach for getting out of debt. Good analogies-

This book is really not that good. It is ok and has a few sharp, interesting comments on banks and banking services, but overall, it has very little that is original to say. I would not recommend it to anyone. It got 2 stars because at least I didn't notice to many errors in it. It was a tedious book.