Are you limping towards the big three-oh one minimum payment at a time?
Are you “on your own” but still asking your parents for cash each birthday?
Do you crumple up your ATM receipts to avoid looking at the balance?
Are friends in the same income bracket beginning to pull ahead of you?
If you’re young, smart, and drowning in debt, Debt-Free by 30 offers a practical, step-by-step plan to help rescue you from the financial abyss. Written by two twentysomethings who found their way back from the horrors of overwhelming debt, this authoritative guide reveals the secrets of debt-free living:
*The Seven Debtly Sins-and how to avoid them at all costs
*Where Does All the Money Go?-taking your financial inventory
*Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Banking but Feared Being Bored out of Your Skull
*Beating Credit Cards at Their Own Game-how to save hundreds of dollars in interest in less than five minutes
Plus tips for
* Driving for less
* Keeping more of what you earn
* Life after debt
. . . and much, much more
Featuring financial IQ Quizzes, no-brainer savings advice, and painless ways to spend less, Debt-Free by 30 will put you back in control of your money-and your life.
Practical, easy to read and down right funny My chances of becoming debt-free by 30 have passed. However, as I perused the aisles of my local bookstore in search of a common sense book about getting out of debt, this one was clearly the winner. The book is filled with common sense advice on how to cut expenses and prepare for the future. It’s all outlined in an easy-to-read fashion and delivered with a witty sense of humor. The authors offer a variety of on-line resources which I promptly accessed as I read through the chapters…
Simple advice and realistic situations It is great to finally find a financial book that dispenses advice for people whose paychecks hover around $20,000 annually. So many people in their 20’s are like those in the book — over-educated, under-employed and in-debt as a result. This book speaks to us. My friend and I spent about 2 hours in the bookstore going over the advice in this book (we plan to buy it–when the budget allows). Some of it was common sensical but worthy of reiteration, and all of it was presented very…