Detailed item info | Synopsis | Drawing on her years as a financial planner, Applegarth offers timely, and sometimes unconventional advice for every major investment turning point in life.
| | Size | | Length: | 366 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in. | | Width: | 6.8 in. | | Thickness: | 1.2 in. | | Weight: | 23.2 oz. |
| | Publisher's Note | From the author of "The Money Diet" comes a financial "Passages" for the '90s, offering sage, timely, and sometimes unconventional advice to help people take control of their own financial destiny.
Like the rest of us, you probably think of your morning cappuccino as a pretty good "fresh start" every day. But as Ginger Applegarth shows in Wake Up and Smell the Money, there are even better ways to wake up and put not only your morning but your financial life into caffeine mode. (And did you know that if you saved the cost of that cappuccino say, $3 over 40 years, you'd net nearly $500,000?) In the upbeat and immensely practical style of her bestselling book, The Money Diet, recommended by USA Today as "a sound investment," Wake Up and Smell the Money offers sage, timely, and sometimes unconventional advice for every major turning point in life. For instance, did you know that you should: * put money in a retirement plan, even if you still have credit card debt. * do your children a favor by saving for your own retirement even if it means they're paying their own way through college. * not make extra payments to pay off your mortgage early. What Gail Sheehy did for our emotional development, Applegarth, drawing on her years as a financial planner and a media personality, has done for our journey toward wealth. Structured "season" by "season," filled with frank and reassuring talk about real problems, with real life, sometimes humorous client examples and truly idiotproof charts, this is a reference source for a lifetime, one you will open again and again as you pass through every stage and season. Whether you're planning the big picture or focusing on a specific milestone from buying your first house to starting over at 50, Wake Up and Smell the Money puts you in control of your own financial destiny.
| | Industry reviews | Applegarth (The Money Diet), a certified financial planner and frequent TV talking head, offers advice in a comforting "if I did it, then so can you" style. Although other personal finance tomes have followed the "life stage" approach, Applegarth takes a different tack by dividing the life cycle into beginnings, taking root, settling down, building up, fresh starts and happy endings. She offers the usual array of advice put away more savings early, maximize your contributions to a 401(k) but also includes some refreshing suggestions: a single person should meet with a single friend to help address their financial concerns; as an experiment, people should "wear their money for a week" i.e., cash a paycheck and see exactly how easily the money disappears. Applegarth reminds readers not to focus solely on investment returns but rather to concentrate on their investment goals. Her advice on keeping track of retirement plans before switching jobs is also sound and worth repeating: sometimes, leaving a job just a few months later can mean a substantial difference in what benefits are available to an employee. This is an appealing and practical primer that will be as useful for people in their 20s as it is for retirees. Author tour. (Apr.)
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