Live, laugh, learn….This is the workbook to complement the audio and text of Good Debt, Bad Debt (Penguin 2005, 2007). It is also used at SFLToday.org Workshops and in our video classes and as the starter courses for those personally coached by Jon Hanson. The workbook contains approximately 80 pages. Several original cartoons and slightly sarcastic expanded explanations on Houses, Spouses, and Cars! Oh my! Here is a breakdown of topics (aside from an overall understanding of debt and time). Table of Contents Preface: It’s about time and money! 4 Positive Thinking Isn’t Enough 6 Habit 7 The Daily Practice 7 Most Everything Good Happens in the First Six Feet 7 The Picture of Good Stewardship 9 The Practice of Good Stewardship 10 The Promise of Good Stewardship 12 I Know, You’re Different, Snowflake… 12 Good Debt, Bad Debt Workbook 17 Q&A Chapter 1- The Debt Effects, the Invisible Hand of Debt 18 Q&A Chapter 2- Emotional Hostage: How Do I Get Free From Me? 19 Q&A Chapter 3- Burn Rate: Spending. Not Income, Determines Wealth 21 Q&A Chapter 4- Delayed Gratification Don’t Wait to Get It! 23 Q&A Chapter 5 – I Don’t Know About My Past, But My Future is Spotless. 26 Q&A Chapter 6 – What if You Live? 29 Q&A Chapter 7- Real Estate 34 Real estate rant: 35 Q&A Chapter 8 – Driving My Life Away 40 Car Salesman: 42 Q&A Chapter 9 – Do I Have Records? 43 Tax rant: 46 Q&A Chapter 10 -You Married Who? 46 Q&A Chapter 11 – Debt Warfare: When Push Comes to Shove 51 Negligent Spendicide?: 54 Teach your children well… 55 References 55 10 Year Guarantee 57 (Test Only 16 pages) Stewardship for Life’s Financial Literacy Basics 58 Test Answer Key Only 123 questions 74
“Life is great when you spend less than you make!” SFLToday.org “Emotional spending is the ‘drunk driving’ of financial stewardship.” Jon Hanson, March 5, 2014

From the author of Money Well Saved comes a new slant and different thinking on getting out of debt and staying out of debt from now on! You will learn why, if debt is a problem for you, it is not your most pressing financial concern. And you will learn how to settle your debts in a way that is in your own best interests. I am the author of this book and I was once unemployed, broke (which I define as having no savings!) and over $50,000 in debt. But I was able to become totally debt-free in just a few years while building my savings at the same time! You can do the same! In this book you will learn my simple secrets to debt-free and prosperous living.

It is commonplace to say that criminals pay their debt to society by spending time in prison, but what is a “debt to society”? How is crime understood as a debt? How has time become the equivalent for crime? And how does criminal debt relate to the kind of debt held by consumers and university students?

In Debt to Society, Miranda Joseph explores modes of accounting as they are used to create, sustain, or transform social relations. Envisioning accounting broadly to include financial accounting, managerial accounting of costs and performance, and the calculation of “debts to society” owed by criminals, Joseph argues that accounting technologies have a powerful effect on social dynamics by attributing credits and debts. From sovereign bonds and securitized credit card debt to student debt and mortgages, there is no doubt that debt and accounting structure our lives.

Exploring central components of neoliberalism (and neoliberalism in crisis) from incarceration to personal finance and university management, Debt to Society exposes the uneven distribution of accountability within our society. Joseph demonstrates how ubiquitous the forces of accounting have become in shaping all aspects of our lives, proposing that we appropriate accounting and offer alternative accounts to turn the present toward a more widely shared well-being.

With updated information that reflects the myriad changes in the student loan industry that affect students and their parents burdened with student loan debt, CliffsNotes Graduation Debt, Second Edition provides a step-by-step road map for effectively managing student loan debt and having a successful financial life.

Reyna Gobel has accumulated tens of thousands of dollars in student loans, recovered from student loan default, and set herself on a mission to help others who face a seemingly insurmountable student loan burden, with a powerful message about taking a step-by-step approach and not being overwhelmed by the sheer weight of student loan debt.

Divided into small subsections geared toward those neck-deep in debt, this book is easily digestible to students who aren’t inclined to focus on their finances. Readers are encouraged to take action steps, such as finding long-lost student loans that may have gone into default, discovering payment plans they can afford, consolidating loans when it makes sense to do so, saving money on eating out and groceries, improving credit scores, tweaking their debt-to-income ratios so they can buy a home, and discussing their student loan and non-student loan debt with their significant others.

By the end of the book, readers will be on the road to financial stability, with extra money for vacations and other fun stuff, too.

This book was designed to inspire, encourage, and motivate you to make positive changes in your financial life. Put God first in your finances because most times, we take care of the spiritual, and physical, then we only do something about the money after it is all gone. In this informative book, you will discover: The principles to get out of debt How to stay out of debt How to make a budget How to take control of your money

If you’re afraid to open your bills, if you’ve never added up how much you owe, if you can’t even imagine being debt-free, it’s time to join the thousands of people Gail Vaz-Oxlade has helped. Her straightforward approach to money management is based on self-control, hard work, and prioritizing what’s really important. Debt-Free Forever is Gail’s step-by-step guide, and she’ll show you how to:

figure out how much you’ve actually been spending
• calculate how much you owe—and what it’s costing you
• build a budget that works
• maximize your debt repayments so you can be free of consumer debt in 3 years or less
• prepare for a rainy day so it doesn’t mean a major setback
• set goals for your new, debt-free life.

Make no mistake: Getting out of debt isn’t easy. But in Debt-Free Forever, Gail gives you a clear strategy and the steps needed to implement it. So if you’re finished with excuses, overdue notices, and maxed-out credit cards, pick up this book, follow Gail’s plan, and start becoming debt-free forever.

The prospect of 160 acres of free land enticed thousands of Norwegians to immigrate to America, with high hopes for a better, more prosperous life. Those who settled in North Dakota never expected they would need several times that amount of land, nor did they imagine the high costs involved in meeting the homestead requirements. This is a story of two families for whom the promise of America miscarried. As they reached a point of borrowing money to move their dream forward the depression hit, as did a drought on the prairie. But the family spirits never died, and the immigrants never wished to be elsewhere.

Chile is widely known as the first experiment in neoliberalism in Latin America, carried out and made possible through state violence. Since the beginning of the transition in 1990, the state has pursued a national project of reconciliation construed as debts owed to the population. The state owed a ?social debt” to the poor accrued through inequalities generated by economic liberalization, while society owed a ?moral debt” to the victims of human rights violations. Life in Debt invites us into lives and world of a poor urban neighborhood in Santiago. Tracing relations and lives between 1999 and 2010, Clara Han explores how the moral and political subjects imagined and asserted by poverty and mental health policies and reparations for human rights violations are refracted through relational modes and their boundaries. Attending to intimate scenes and neighborhood life, Han reveals the force of relations in the making of selves in a world in which unstable work patterns, illness, and pervasive economic indebtedness are aspects of everyday life. Lucidly written, Life in Debt provides a unique meditation on both the past inhabiting actual life conditions but also on the difficulties of obligation and achievements of responsiveness.

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Tired of getting to the end of the money before you get to the end of the month? Wish you were in control?

If you’re afraid to open your bills, if you’ve never added up how much you owe, if you can’t even imagine being debt-free, it’s time to join the thousands of people Gail Vaz-Oxlade has helped. Her straightforward approach to money management is based on self-control, hard work, and prioritizing what’s really important. Debt-Free Forever is Gail’s step-by-step guide, and she’ll show you how to:

figure out how much you’ve actually been spendingcalculate how much you owe—and what it’s costing youbuild a budget that worksmaximize your debt repayments so you can be free of consumer debt in 3 years or lessprepare for a rainy day so it doesn’t mean a major setbackset goals for your new, debt-free life

Make no mistake: Getting out of debt isn’t easy. But in Debt-Free Forever, Gail gives you a clear strategy and the steps needed to implement it. So if you’re finished with excuses, overdue notices, and maxed-out credit cards, pick up this book, follow Gail’s plan, and start becoming debt-free forever.

Tired of getting to the end of the money before you get to the end of the month? Wish you were in control?

If you’re afraid to open your bills, if you’ve never added up how much you owe, if you can’t even imagine being debt-free, it’s time to join the thousands of people Gail Vaz-Oxlade has helped. Her straightforward approach to money management is based on self-control, hard work, and prioritizing what’s really important. Debt-Free Forever is Gail’s step-by-step guide, and she’ll show you how to:

figure out how much you’ve actually been spendingcalculate how much you owe—and what it’s costing youbuild a budget that worksmaximize your debt repayments so you can be free of consumer debt in 3 years or lessprepare for a rainy day so it doesn’t mean a major setbackset goals for your new, debt-free life

Make no mistake: Getting out of debt isn’t easy. But in Debt-Free Forever, Gail gives you a clear strategy and the steps needed to implement it. So if you’re finished with excuses, overdue notices, and maxed-out credit cards, pick up this book, follow Gail’s plan, and start becoming debt-free forever.