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Money Sucks! Money Strategies for Real Life

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"Money Sucks" is full of straightforward, practical tips for the financially clueless. While many older adults could learn from these financial tips - I didn't know I should be careful about giving my birthdate out to inquiring minds - the book is especially helpful for younger adults. Even 16-year-olds have checking accounts, debit cards, and borrow money from their parents for cars, vacations, and prom dates. Now they can learn why it's smart to balance your checkbook, keep track of receipts and due dates for bills, and to know the perils of runaway credit card use. It helps that the book is written with a splash of humor, some fun drawings, and is easy to read.

Identity theft is a huge problem today, and this book offers advice on how to monitor your credit rating, protect private information from getting into the wrong hands, and resist the lure of no interest/easy payment options for buying high-priced items. And who among us did not have trouble filling out our income tax withholding form at our first job? Even the other employees - and sometimes the managers - didn't know how to advise us on how to fill in the blanks. "Money Sucks" give you a step by step explanation so that you will never again have trouble choosing your options.

It's important to learn all you can before you leave the protection of your parents' home. 50 Ways to Leave Your Mother And I recommend that before you earn your first paycheck you read "Money Sucks" because someday the money you earn - and may lose - will be your own.

As the mother of seven children, I am thankful for this book! It is packed with the wisdom that every parent should instill in their child for life-long success - in a convenient, fun package!

Ms. Gordon's book should be a part of every high school's Economics curriculum and every family's library.

Miryam has presented the basics of money management clearly, concisely, and simply - oh, and light heartedly too - with those great cartoons. The cartoons add an element of levity that helps to take the heaviness out of a heavy subject. Well done! A useful resource for beginners, for parents of teens, teachers, for anyone wanting to be more effective with their money management.

This book was simple for me - a confirmed math phobic - yet not simplistic. Oh yes, I knew some of the information just because I've lived to be 63, but did I understand it? Not until after I read Ms. Gordon's book. I especially like that the reader is not treated as some simpleton who just can't understand unless the most simplistic explanations are employed. I enjoyed the author's slightly ironic sense of humor, too. It made it easier to deal with all those numbers. While the book is marketed to those just starting out to be financially responsible, I'd recommend it to those of us who don't really understand why we do what we do with our money, although we know it works.

A book on finance is probably not a topic most young people would be eager to spend a lot of time on, so this is a great gift book for teens and kids going to college as it is short and fact-filled. In a small book Ms. Gordon manages to cover all of the basics regarding how to responsibly handle money and avoid financial crises. The page layout is easy to read and clean with short chapters and bold headlines to direct the eye to topics of interest. There is even an index. How to plan a budget, handle credit, what contributes to a good or bad credit score (information even seasoned adults can benefit from), keeping your personal information safe, balancing a checkbook, what you need to get that first job, and more. An amazing variety in one short and affordable book that won't intimidate by its size. This book DOESN'T suck.

Everyone wants money, but few understand what to do with it. "Money Sucks!: Money Strategies for Real Life" offers lessons that few people have ever been taught about the importance of planning with one's money. Aiming to give readers the essentials, and deliberately not a ten pound financial textbook, "Money Sucks!" is an excellent read for anyone just starting out and seeking to plan their money usage to avoid future problems.

This is a fabulous read for those of us who are still bummed out by our calculators. or hate the idea of budgets in general or just need somebody like Gordon to whip us - kindly but firmly - into shape. It's painless and fun at the same time. I glumly laughed at the cartoons and truly appreciate the neat ways she works out the interest payments for us. I recommend Money Sucks heartily, and think it's the perfect gift for graduates, whether from high school, college, or some of the more crocked ladders of life ...

Money Sucks! is an approachable and informative look at the practical in's and out's of money. The author is writing to young people who are just entering the world of work, saving and spending -- offering what many of us wish we'd known back then.

Money Sucks is one remarkable book! It tells it like it is. It is straightforward and pertinent to today's world. Every young person (and also those not-so-young) will benefit from reading and re-reading the covered topics. Teachers of social studies in high schools around the nation can base study plans using this book. Young college students NEED to know and use this information. It's important to their financial life.

This is an excellent book, and I would say so even if I were not the author's mother!

Judith Gordon

Money Sucks provides basic and yet essential information for managing money, credit, your identity and the identity of your children. This book presents information in a get-to-the-point manner that is easy to understand. The glossary, resource links and the chapter on keeping your personal information safe is for readers of all ages.

This book would make an excellent gift for high school and college graduates.