Your Money Or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money And Achieving Financial Independence
Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin
Read November 2008
Copy borrowed from Ramsey County Public Library, White Bear Lake branch
Essay written February 21st, 2009
All the ideas in this are wonderful, however, it seems to me they're also common sense. Or at least, things you should have learned as a child from a financially responsible parent. I had such an education, so none of this seemed all that earth-shattering to me.
Indeed, my problem isn't that I don't manage my money well, my problem is that I don't have enough money. I know how stupid that sounds on the surface, but I'm prepared to back it up. I don't have cable, don't go to movies, don't go on vacation, don't eat out. I shop at thrift stores, if I shop at all. I maximize the use of my library. For crying out loud, my work recently cut everyone's pay by 10%. I'm drinking my own coffee only twice a week (Saturndays and Sundays) instead of five times per week, substituting that filth they call coffee at work to feed my caffeine dependency. This is sacrifice. I know what hard times are. I live unbelievably close to the edge.
So the information in this book wasn't useful to me. It was useful, to be sure. But not to me. I have it down. My problem is my income. I'm working on that.
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