In this weekend's Your Money column, I took a look at Zac Bissonnette's new book "How to Be Richer, Smarter and Better-Looking Than Your Parents," and wondered who could have raised a 23-year-old capable of writing a personal finance guidebook.
And it is apparently a rule that if you write a personal-finance book, you must suggest, as Ms. Nagler does, that people don't need to buy $3 coffees on the way to work.
(Sony, $38.96, PG) ALSO OUT THIS WEEK CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC Rebecca (Isla Fisher), who writes a personal-finance column, has trouble managing her own cash flow in this romantic comedy directed by P. J. Hogan ("Muriel's Wedding").
2. Write a Personal Essay.
Always write a personal note.
How do you write a personal statement?
How to Write a Personal Mission Statement.
Intuit, the maker of QuickBooks and TurboTax, monitors Twitter for people writing about Mint, a personal finance Web site that competes with its Quicken Online.
"I tend to be pretty protective of my personal finance information," said Trent Hamm, 30, who writes The Simple Dollar, a personal finance blog, from Des Moines.
For me, that means the weight of the world will be lifted off my shoulders, and I'll have the freedom to pursue my other passions -- like freelance writing full time, or penning a personal finance book to share my experiences with others -- and be able to start saving toward my next goal: retiring early at age 55.
