Family Finances for the Flabbergasted

by Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard

Is there life after debt? If money can't buy happiness, what will? How can you get off the treadmill of our material society and enjoy life -- without starving? Family Finances for the Flabbergasted is a delightful, thought-provoking look at the world of family finances which will help answer these questions and much more! Family Finances for the Flabbergasted tells you how to win the money game by knowing that the best things in life are things. Manage your money before it manages you by making your gross income a little less gross, living on less than you earn (without feeling deprived), accept that work is a blessing and not a curse. Family Finances for the Flabbergasted includes scores of fun, effective ways to make money at home as well.

167 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1995

About the author

Janene Baadsgaard has written extensively for over thirty years offering her readers valuable information, insight and humor about life. She is the author of hundreds of newspaper columns and features, magazine articles and over a dozen books. She is a graduate of Brigham Young University in Communications with a journalism emphasis and has taught courses in writing and literature for Utah Valley University.

She and her husband Ross are the parents of ten children and live on two acres in the country in Spanish Fork Utah. She is a full-time homemaker and believes loving God, herself, her husband, children and grandchildren is the most important thing she will ever do with her life. Her mission is to support, strengthen and uplift families beginning with her own. Her hobbies include reading, writing, singing, playing the piano/violin and gardening.

A popular speaker, thousands have heard her wit and wisdom at such events as BYU Education Week, BYU Family Expo, BYU Women's Conference, Deseret Book's Time Out for Women as well as numorous other civic and church sponsored events.

Reviews

[Carolyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book didn't really teach me anything about money managedment, but I did take away a lesson that needs to be pounded into people's heads, over and over:

Today is all we have, so we might as well try and enjoy it.

[April Moody · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anything written by my mom get a 5 in my book!

[Cheryl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ms Baadsgaard has a quirky sense of humor. Love the stories with her kids in them! Although this book has sound advise, it is a little out-dated because computers are so rampant now-a-days.

[Alissa Faust · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pretty boring and standard tips. Nothing too new.