Introduction: Money Problems Are Financial Opportunities |
|
1 | (8) |
|
PART ONE SPEND LESS, SAVE WELL, INVEST OFTEN |
|
|
|
1 Money Lessons I Learned from My Mother |
|
|
9 | (10) |
|
Spending, Saving, Investing: A Personal-Finance Quiz |
|
|
|
|
19 | (18) |
|
|
|
3 Save Your Money, Save Your Life |
|
|
37 | (14) |
|
|
|
4 Invest Right, Invest Now |
|
|
51 | (16) |
|
5 Investment Rules to Live By |
|
|
|
|
67 | (10) |
|
|
|
PART TWO YOUTH AND MONEY: LEARNING & EARNING, DATING & MATING |
|
|
|
|
77 | (28) |
|
Test Your Child's Money Smarts |
|
|
|
7 The High Cost of Higher Education |
|
|
105 | (18) |
|
Quiz: Are You Ready for the High Cost of Higher Ed? |
|
|
|
8 Boomers and Boomerangs: When Generations Financially Collide |
|
|
123 | (10) |
|
10 Steps for Getting Your Kid Out of Your Basement |
|
|
|
|
133 | (14) |
|
10 Financial Questions to Ask Your Partner Before You Move In Together |
|
|
|
PART THREE MARRIAGE, MORTGAGE, AND CHILDREN |
|
|
|
|
147 | (18) |
|
Get Hitched and Stay Rich: 10 Ways to Minimize Wedding-Spending Madness |
|
|
|
11 House Poor, House Rich |
|
|
165 | (20) |
|
10 Ways to Renovate Smarter |
|
|
|
|
185 | (8) |
|
5 Ways to Minimize Baby-Spending Madness |
|
|
|
|
193 | (14) |
|
4 More Money Pits to Avoid |
|
|
|
PART FOUR MIDLIFE MONEY MATTERS & YOUR FINANCIAL LEGACY |
|
|
|
14 Midlife and Money Karma |
|
|
207 | (12) |
|
Measure Your Midlife Money Karma |
|
|
|
15 Divorce, Remarriage, and Gold Diggers |
|
|
219 | (10) |
|
How to Spot a Gold Digger |
|
|
|
16 Debt, Divesting, and Downsizing |
|
|
229 | (18) |
|
10 Crucial Financial Questions You Must Ask about Late-in-Life Care |
|
|
Epilogue: Getting to "Enough" |
|
247 | (2) |
Acknowledgments |
|
249 | (2) |
About The Author |
|
251 | |