BOOK REVIEW: A Woman's Guide to Family Finances

 

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by Laura V. Hilton

Dancing Word Reviewer

 

Title: A Woman's Guide to Family Finances

Author: Ellie Kay

Publisher: Bethany House Publishers

ISBN: 0-7642-2695-9

Genre: Christian Living/Finances

 

Do you dream of the day when . . .

 . . . Your credit cards are paid off?

. . . You have a savings account and an IRA?

. . . You can take a once-in-a-lifetime family vacation?

 

Then A Woman's Guide to Family Finances is the book for you. Written in an entertaining, easy-to-read style, Ellie Kay will teach the reader how she took her family from over forty-thousand dollars in credit card debt, to being completely debt-free in two and a half years.

 

Ms. Kay shows in easy to understand chapters how to budget, how to save on essentials, how to go on a debt diet, and how to weather financial set-backs, including losing your job and looking for a new place of employment.

 

I don’t usually like to read how-to books, but this book reads like a good novel. I had to keep reading. I learned some really valuable tips and relearned others that I’d forgotten and am looking forward to putting my new budget into operation.

 

A Woman's Guide to Family Finances is a book to read through once, but then come back to time and again as you are ready to make more financial changes. She advices you start small and build your way up so you don’t go into shock and stop trying to save money. Whether you are a born spender or saver, A Woman's Guide to Family Finances is a book for a keeper shelf to be read and studied over and over. I’d recommend having your teenagers read it too, especially if they are soon to be on their own.

 

Pick up A Woman's Guide to Family Finances today. It is worth the small price you’ll pay—you’ll gain a wealth of knowledge in exchange.