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Informationen zum Autor Bill Toohey is the author of The Average Family's Guide to Financial Freedom, published by Wiley. Mary Toohey is the author of The Average Family's Guide to Financial Freedom, published by Wiley. Klappentext Easy-to-understand, here is the Tooheys' formula for building assets without earning more money, relocating, or changing jobs--and without suffering. They cover practical planning, investment suggestions, and issues in developing a money saving mindset. Zusammenfassung Bill and Mary Toohey are average middle income people from a small Iowa town. Bill has been employed for 23 years as a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor and Mary has worked for 20 years as an Office Manager for a small psychological firm. They started saving and investing in 1991 when their net worth was $63!000. Inhaltsverzeichnis BUILDING A MONEY-SAVING MINDSET. Love: The Impact of Money on Relationships. Crisis: Maintaining Normalcy in a Crisis. Comfort: How to Be Comfortable in a Modest Home. SPENDING LESS IS EASIER THAN SAVING MORE. Saving: Why Saving Doesn't Work. Spending: The Double Whammy of Spending Control. Borrowing: Despising Debt. NECESSITIES AND A FEW EXTRAS. Home: Choosing the Right House Will Make You or Break You. Wheels: Car-Buying Secrets. Entertainment: Having Fun Without Breaking the Bank. Splurge: Coming Up for Air. BIG TICKET MONEY SAVERS. Research: Money-Saving Strategies for Big Ticket Purchases. Scholarship: A Debt-Free College Education for $7000! Taxes: Taking Advantage of Tax Breaks. SIMPLIFY YOUR LIFE. Supplies: Office Supplies You Must Have. Files: Building a Bulletproof Filing System. Sleep: The Costs of Losing Sleep. PRACTICAL MONEY-SAVING SKILLS. Maintenance: Make Your Things Last Forever. Skills: Do It Yourself and Save. BE YOUR OWN FINANCIAL EXPERT. Planners: The Best Financial Planner for You Is You. Foundation: Building Your Financial Future on Solid Footing. Homework: Investing Knowledge ... Where to Get It. INVESTING. Bonds: Smoothing Out the Dips. Cash: A Risky Investment. Choosing: Drowning in a Sea of Choices. Dumb Moves: Our Investment Mistakes. RETIREMENT. Plans: IRAs, Roths, 403(b)s, 401(k)s, SIMPLES, SEPs, Keoghs ... Enough: Keeping Our Money from Petering Out Before We Do. Threats: A Sample of Things That Can Go Wrong. PARENTING. Supper: We Raise Our Kids at Dinner. Indulge: Spending Money on Kids. Discipline: Chaos Poses a Threat to Your Family's Financial Health. Afterword. Index....
