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Summary: A Must Have!
Review: "A Woman's Guide to Family Finances" is a "must have" for any serious home library. Only Ellie Kay can strike to the heart of family finances with such humor and insight. This book is not just for the women in your life, but the men as well! How can such a young woman have such financial wisdom? This is truely a five-star, must have!
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Summary: Practical and Fun Guide to Finances
Review: A Woman's Guide to Family Finances, is a wonderful source of practical information and a simple guide of how to get on and stay on track financially. Ellie's books are fun to read and look worn by the time I get through dog-earring and highlighting page after page.
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Summary: Strongly commended and highly recommended reading
Review: Ably written by magazine columnist and international speaker Ellie Kay (best known for her regular guest appearances on CNBC's "Power Lunch"), A Woman's Guide To Family Finances is a no-nonsense guide to keeping the family out of debt, ready to weather financial setbacks, and with an eye always vigilant toward future financially relevant plans. Do's and Don'ts of spending; various investments; saving; and planning simplify the complex task of managing money while minimizing risk (especially in today's unpredictable and volatile era), A Woman's Guide To Family Finances is strongly commended and highly recommended reading.
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Summary: Strongly commended and highly recommended reading
Review: Ably written by magazine columnist and international speaker Ellie Kay (best known for her regular guest appearances on CNBC's "Power Lunch"), A Woman's Guide To Family Finances is a no-nonsense guide to keeping the family out of debt, ready to weather financial setbacks, and with an eye always vigilant toward future financially relevant plans. Do's and Don'ts of spending; various investments; saving; and planning simplify the complex task of managing money while minimizing risk (especially in today's unpredictable and volatile era), A Woman's Guide To Family Finances is strongly commended and highly recommended reading.
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Summary: Money advice and humor--all in one book!
Review: As a banking consultant and MBA, I've gotten the finer aspects of personal money management pretty well nailed down. But I never miss the opportunity to pick up a good financial read, and will say this book had yet new ideas and fresh reminders on keeping my family's finances in good shape. Great take-aways.The style in which author Ellie Kay writes carries the reader along (with a whole lot of laughs while Kay reveals her hilarious personal foibles) so what could have been a boring tome truly morphs into a page-turner. Don't pick it up if you've got insomnia, because you won't be falling asleep! I've read Suze Orman, David Bach, Andrew Tobias, and many other best-selling financial books. This one is right up there, and not to be missed. No wonder the book is featured by Wal-Mart. I checked out the author's website and found some v. entertaining video clips as well, fyi.
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Summary: This is a keeper for the bookshelf!
Review: Do you dream of the day when . . .
. . . Your credit cards are paid off?
. . . You have a savings account and an IRA?
. . . You can take a once-in-a-lifetime family vacation?
Then A WOMAN'S GUIDE TO FAMILY FINANCES is the book for you. Written in an entertaining, easy-to-read style, Ellie Kay will teach the reader how she took her family from over forty-thousand dollars in credit card debt, to being completely debt-free in two and a half years.
Ms. Kay shows in easy to understand chapters how to budget, how to save on essentials, how to go on a debt diet, and how to weather financial set-backs, including losing your job and looking for a new place of employment.
I don't usually like to read how-to books, but this book reads like a good novel. I had to keep reading. I learned some really valuable tips and relearned others that I'd forgotten and am looking forward to putting my new budget into operation.
A WOMAN'S GUIDE TO FAMILY FINANCES is a book to read through once, but then come back to time and again as you are ready to make more financial changes. She advices you start small and build your way up so you don't go into shock and stop trying to save money. Whether you are a born spender or saver, A WOMAN'S GUIDE TO FAMILY FINANCES is a book for a keeper shelf to be read and studied over and over. I'd recommend having your teenagers read it too, especially if they are soon to be on their own.
=== reviewed by Laura V. Hilton for Christian Bookshelf
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Summary: ELLIE KAY, THE "DR. PHIL" OF FAMILY FINANCES
Review: Dr. Phil focussed attention on the emotional and psychological barriers to weight loss with his book and television programs on the "Ultimate Weight Loss Solution." Like Dr. Phil, Ellie Kay is a Texan who has opened up a new dimension of thinking, but in the area of the family finances. Ellie Kay's book, "A Woman's Guide to Family Finances" gives friendly and useful tips on saving money, but also goes way beyond that. The book is a fun and fascinating exploration of the emotional and psychological barriers that block people from achieving their financial goals with the family budget. The book's opening up of the issue of why people who know they can save money are not doing it, makes this book one that you cannot put down once you start reading it. This book will open up your mind and is truly outstanding.
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Summary: ELLIE KAY, THE "DR. PHIL" OF FAMILY FINANCES
Review: Dr. Phil focussed attention on the emotional and psychological barriers to weight loss with his book and television programs on the "Ultimate Weight Loss Solution." Like Dr. Phil, Ellie Kay is a Texan who has opened up a new dimension of thinking, but in the area of the family finances. Ellie Kay's book, "A Woman's Guide to Family Finances" gives friendly and useful tips on saving money, but also goes way beyond that. The book is a fun and fascinating exploration of the emotional and psychological barriers that block people from achieving their financial goals with the family budget. The book's opening up of the issue of why people who know they can save money are not doing it, makes this book one that you cannot put down once you start reading it. This book will open up your mind and is truly outstanding.
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Summary: A great guide to personal finances
Review: Ellie Kay has produced another great guide to practical money management. The analogies are humorous, yet clear. My wife started it and could not put it down until she was finished. It has plenty of sound advice for couples who find themselves in financial difficulties. It makes a great gift for children that have just gotten married or are just starting out. Older couples can learn a few things too (as we did!). This book offers wisdom, born of experience, in a very readable form.
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Summary: Valuable (and fun!) resource for women AND men!
Review: Ellie Kay, once known as 'the coupon queen' is now called "America's Family Financial Expert" and this book helps show why. She shares practical strategies for making and sticking to a budget, going on a "debt diet", weathering financial setbacks (including touching and contrasting stories of people who suddenly found themselves unemployed, and how they handled it) how to save on essentials, and how to always share with those less fortunate, all in her fun, entertaining signature style. I learn something new every time I read one of Ellie's books. This time I learned the Four Axioms to keep us from frugal burnout: 1. Shop LESS and you will save more, 2. Watch LESS television and save more, 3. THROW away mail order catalogs and save more (this one really hit home!) and 4. Bypass reading the ads in magazines and newspapers and save more. Thanks, Ellie, for another excellent book that even the math-and-financially impaired of us can understand!
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