How to Ruin Your Financial Life

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Summary: Ben Makes Money Funny
Review: A Wonderful book detaling many simple ways to ruin your financial life. Ben Stein does it again! This great little book is the opposite of all the `how to be succesful' books because here we learn how to not ruin our lives. In a way this book is more important because most of us are more concerned with protecting our finances then we are with making millions. This little instruction book details everything not to do, from credit cards to wasting time watching the late night financial success stories. A wonderful fun book.

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Summary: A wonderful little instruction booklet
Review: A Wonderful book detaling many simple ways to ruin your financial life. Ben Stein does it again! This great little book is the opposite of all the 'how to be succesful' books because here we learn how to not ruin our lives. In a way this book is more important because most of us are more concerned with protecting our finances then we are with making millions. This little instruction book details everything not to do, from credit cards to wasting time watching the late night financial success stories. A wonderful fun book.

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Summary: Ben Makes Money Funny
Review: Ben Stein's real point is that financial success in life doesn't require being a genius at handling money -- it's about avoiding the dumb, completely preventable mistakes that we all make sooner or later. If I had read this hilarious book when I was sixteen, I would be far richer today. Read it yourself, and then get copies for your kids. It's everything you wish they knew but won't listen to coming from you. If this means you don't have to bail them out of debt later on, the money you save may end up being your own!

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Summary: A Book Needed in High School as a Must Read
Review: Considering the impending doom of the American financial situation in years to come, all High School students need to read this book to understand simple economics. One of the biggest complaints about Americans economically is that they don't save. Well Stein's virtually sarcastic way of telling you excactly how to ruin your life financially is amusing and direct such as "don't worry about maxing out your credit cards, you can always get another one and no one will foreclose because people really like you". Written in a way that teenagers will get the message and the humor, direct, short and sweet. This book is within a teenagers attention span, the smart ones will get the message in a few short chapters.

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Summary: The perfect guide for those of us who make too much money
Review: I had a problem most Americans have: too much money and security. You name it, I had it. Stocks; bonds; mutual funds; CDs; an annuity, an IRA and Roth IRA. I even had several savings accounts to maximize the FDIC insured amount of $100,000. There seemed to be no end to the madness. I needed help and I needed it bad. One day after a meeting with one my financial advisors, I stumbled on to Ben Stein's "How To Ruin Your Financial Life." Reading it changed everything

He pointed out that there is no better time than the present to spend, spend, spend wuthout hesitation! After all, my money does no one any good sitting in some dusty bank collecting interest. My assets were sold and my accounts were purged. Now my credit is shot, I have collection agencies calling me, the IRS is on my tail and I even have a lien on my remaining funds (I learned that the hard way when I tried to withdraw $20 from a local ATM.)

Thanks, Ben Stein. Your guidance has definitely made my life more destitute but also more exciting.

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Summary: Ben Stein shows the way!
Review: Rather than lecture you on what to do, Stein takes a sarcastic view of personal finance and tells you to gout there and spend, spend, spend -- you rock star, you! Every single thing you could possibly do to lead you into financial ruin is promoted here, till you stop laughing (especially when you see yourself already messing yourself in your real life by doing what he is saying) and realizing you need to shape up or be broke. In which case -- thanks, Ben!