Please Send Money: A Financial Survival Guide for Young Adults on Their Own

by Dara Duguay

The average student loan debt has reached $30,000. Credit card debt continues to rise to staggering levels. Please Send Money provides young adults neck-deep in the student debt crisis with the tools they need to navigate the tumultuous world of personal finance with smart advice from leading expert Dara Duguay, Director of Citigroup's Office of Financial Education. Dozens of eye-opening, real-life stories chronicle the financial mistakes commonly made by young people and present an array of solutions. Duguay covers topics Please Send Money contains common sense advice and useful financial tools for determining budget, net worth, cost of credit, and safe debt levels. It's a book that no young adult should be without.

Genres: Personal Finance, Nonfiction

352 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 1, 2001

Reviews

[Tani · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is exactly what it says: a guide for those of us who are going to be out on our own for the first time. For the most part, it's pretty basic and there's definitely a lot of repetition that makes it a little frustrating to read. Still, if you have no clue how to manage your personal finances, it has some nice tools for helping you to do things like figure out a budget, and it definitely tells you what not to do. At the very least, I feel a lot better about myself, having read the tales of financial stupidity that this book is packed with.

[Britney · Rating 3 out of 5]

A quick read, but it didn't contain much that I didn't already know: don't spend more money than you earn, and don't rely too heavily on credit.

[Giovanne · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book is fun.

[Denise · Rating 2 out of 5]

All the TERRIBLE WARNING stories got really annoying after a while.

[Christopher Brehm · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a helpful book when I was in college to help organize my finances.

[Mz. Fro]

I feel like I'm going to barf....this book is my life.

[Alexandra · Rating 2 out of 5]

I thought that it gave good advice; but after a while it just started to repeat the same message over and over.