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Crashproof Your Life: A Comprehensive, Three-Part Plan for Protecting Yourself from Financial Disasters

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This is a great book. I will recomend this book to all my friends. The web site is great and helpful in perticular the checklist.

The forces of entropy are out there. The unexpected disaster awaits you sooner than you might think. What are you doing to protect yourself? Little actions with unforseen consequences can easily be avoided if you are prepared.

How many times have you thought how stupid of me I should have foreseen that this might happen if I did this. Now there is a book that lays out in a very straighforward manner all the things that can go wrong and how through simple steps you can prevent them. This book teaches you how to build a bulwark against the forces of entropy.

It will not prevent all disasters but it will save you from most of the ones that you can unwittingly bring down upon yourself as well as how to lessen the damage from the ones you can't control.

A very timely book. It reads well. Section One on job security is worth the price alone. I found myself breezing through it and then rereading it. The true life examples of people who wrecked their careers as well as those who deftly sidestepped disasters are fascinating. It reads like a survival manual for today's workplace jungle. Two and three are invaluable and are filled with reference material regarding financial and tort protection that you would need several books to duplicate and even then wouldn't be as clearly laid out or as enjoyable to read.

I'm getting a few for friends.

This book is most appropriate for someone who has just entered the workforce. Many of the lessons regarding behavior in the professional world are useful, but not profound. I was dissapointed in the section of the book devoted to personal matters. In general, I would not recommend to anyone with more than a passing knowledge of basic personal financial skills.

First, the Financial Crashproofing Checklist alone was worth the price of the book. I have already changed my car insurance deductible and added an umbrella policy...one saved me $84 per year which almost paid for the other. Easy to read and even better than his first book. Second, I recommend checking the
website...I had no trouble finding it.

Don't get me wrong. There is a lot of good ideas in this book. But the author, instead of sharing what works for him and letting the reader decide what is appropriate for him/her self tries the one size fits all approach in some areas. The book completely ignores the use of computers for tracking money and the investment advice in the book is very low level and shallow. All in all most of the book is just personal opinion. For those who are truly ignorant of these matters it may have some use but in general it is a paen to the author's personal methods backed up by a few horror stories. As is frequently the case in this situation much of this is wrongly interpreted and may not even be correct. In general the book relies too much on ancecdotal evidence for those areas of our lives for which objective evidence is available. Still there are some useful ideas in the book and the book is worthwhile reading. But there is just too much childish ego at work here to make the book a first rank reference. Also, virtually all of these ideas can be found elsewhere.

Very fuseful book for just become retiree as well as young people. For a japanese, there few auch a book. Most are concern about stock trading. The pragmatic meathodes suggested to built up an adequate potfile for each situation gave me a starting point.

I was disappointed that the referred to "Crashproofyourlife.com" website cannot be found.

Good book, lot's of helpful hints, however, there are numerous references throughtout of his website "crashproofyourlife.com" that promise further information. Website can't be found.