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> "I started thinking about writing a book in early 2017 because all my family and friends were coming to me for financial advice," she says. "I also began to wonder, well, why aren't they reading books or learning on their own? [...] And that's where the idea for 'Money Honey' came from."
So, yep, exactly.
Wonderful comment. There is a great section in this book Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry that validates many of your observations. Great book from a long time (female) financial columnist.
I recommend this book:
She is kinda amazing, and became a wealth manager for the ultra rich in order to study them as a sociologist.
It is getting easier to keep your money, wealthy families can enroll their kids in all kinds of program to teach them discipline etc.
I wish I had done something like #9. This book covers a lot of good stuff on the mechanics of doing the rent a room/house hacking, though it isn’t focused on VA loans. Regardless, I highly recommend the book and the strategy.
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Also, my college experience was more like a job where my occupation was studying. I mostly socialized with people my age who were recent graduates rather than my fellow underclassmen and in hindsight I regret that. The irony of it all is that I got out of the Marine Corps so that I could go to school and have a “college experience” like so many of my friends from HS did, and I had fully intended to go back into the Marines post college. Instead, I got in my head about being too old for college things and my experience was more akin to graduate school. That said, I did make friends with some undergrads closer to my age and got to go to some frat parties, tailgates, etc. and also participated in some intermurals and a couple of clubs and those are some of my fondest memories of school, but my regret is that I didn’t embrace being a carefree undergrad to the extent I should have.
Check out Money Honey. It’s down to earth and fun to read. But TL;DR:
1.) save an emergency fund 2.) invest in a simple maybe 60/40 domestic international index split like $VTI/$VXUS 3.) consider real estate. You could buy a duplex. Live in half, rent the other 0 mortgage and maybe some net 4.) Budget like you never had this money e.g. immediately pay yourself forward by putting it somewhere you won’t be tempted to take it out, as in your IRA your 401k your HSA and then your brokerage accounts.
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