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Put Your Debt on a Diet: A Step-by-Step Guide to Financial Fitness

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As a Certified Financial Planner, I am always on the lookout for effective, easy-to-follow money management ideas for my clients. Stanley Kershman has written a book that is a "good read." It can be read chapter by chapter or all at once (it is hard to put down!) Well laid out, each chapter has helpful hints in bold boxes and ends with a concise, numbered summary. Kershman has touched on all the real-life financial circumstances that ordinary people find themselves in and he has suggested ways to navigate successfully through the occasional rough spots. Although he practises bankruptcy and insolvency law, Kershman has shown how people can avoid becoming his clients! After reading this book, everyone should sit down, make a list of things to do, and perhaps top that list with "Find a Financial Planner."

If you are looking for a "lazy" solution to debt problems (like winning the lottery!) you won't get much from this volume, but if you are really ready to tackle the debt issues, it will be very helpful. For those of us without a serious debt problem it is a reminder of the pitfals to avoid and offers some solid advice on child rearing to teach the correct attitudes. The only problem here is the people who could use/need the book the most might think that a trip to the casino or the "payday loan" place is a wiser 'investment' than this book. Too sad, indeed.