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Making the Most out of the Money you Have

January 19th, 2007 at 08:03 pm

Good article today from Laura Rowley:

Text is http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/moneyhappy/21840 and Link is
http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/moneyhappy/21840


I love Suze ORman & Laura Rowley. My little obsessions before finding savingadvice.com and getting all obsessed over here - LOL.

They are both very similar in they get past the basics of finance and into more interestingly the psychology of our savings and spending habits. Very interesting. I love watching Suze because no doubt she is like a psychic. Just tell a little blurb about your problem and she can read deeper into the underlying problems - can usually hit the nail on the head pretty fast too.

Plus there isn't really nothing going to make me more warm and fuzzy and see how well we are doing financially compared to most the callers. IT is definitely a selfish thing too. Well that and I have learned A LOT. When I First tuned into her show she was telling people to get credit cards. I Said - huh? BEing raised with the motto "debt is bad so avoid it all costs" it has been hard for me to wrap my brain around. I worked a deal with my parents and lent $5k for them with 3% interest last year. Ever since I watched Suze I have rethought that decision. I could have had 0% credit card, because I have the discipline and the money in the bank to pay it off. Woulda coulda shoulda. Suze started me on my path of rethinking paying all the debt first. It hasn't necessarily served us well to be so anti-debt. It has, but I now see that not only you should avoid it, but better yet use it to your advantage. & so I am learning.

But I really enjoy Laura Rowley's columns too, just into the deeper digging of how money affects us beyond the wealth it brings us, etc. I started reading her columns thinking more "amen sister" as we have very similar philosophies on money. But she always has some interesting light to shed about personal finance too.


2 Responses to “Making the Most out of the Money you Have”

  1. Broken Arrow Says:
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    Yes, I like them too.

    And yes, Suze does get into the psychology of things, doesn't she? But I have to agree that alot of our spending habits is psychologically based. It certainly is true for me as well.

  2. Amber Says:
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    I like Suze also, I will have to check Laura out...thanks

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