It's Your Money, Honey!

It’s never too early to get ahold of your finances and adopt healthy fiscal habits to last a lifetime. Introducing a quick-start e-book guide, adapted from The Girl’s Guide to Absolutely Everything, for young women and their money: making it, budgeting it, spending it, saving it, investing it, and enjoying it. Whether you’re a financial “Ostrich” with your head buried in the sand, an obsessively detail-oriented “Magpie,” an out-of-control “Cuckoo,” or even a well-balanced “Hummingbird,” this smart and funny tutorial is packed with helpful advice and tips. How to put yourself on a budget—and stick to it. Separating wants from needs, and knowing when to splurge. What to look for in checking accounts and credit cards (are those “rewards” really worth it?). The Simplest Explanation of Retirement Plans You’ll Ever Slog Through. Taxes: when to farm them out and when to do them yourself. Plus, Eight Easy Steps to Make Extra Cash, why you should always pay off credit cards before student loans, the tricky business of loaning to/borrowing from friends and family, and, for when you just can’t pay, the lowdown on bankruptcy. About this title: Workman Shorts is a new line of bite-size, subject-specific e-books curated from a library of trusted books and authors.