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The 7 Money Mantras are:
1. If it's on your ass, it's not an asset!
2. Is this a need or is it a want?
3. Sweat the small stuff.
4. Cash is better than credit.
5. Keep it simple.
6. Priorities lead to prosperity.
7. Enough is enough.

In a plainspoken, sassy, non-nonsense voice, Michelle provides answers to the financial issues that confront almost every household: how to teach children the value of money; how to address money issues in a relationship or marriage; household saving tips; getting the best loans; and much more.

With humor and down-home financial wisdom, Michelle Singletary offers practical and realistic advice that will help you live well with the money you have.
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    2 out of 5 stars
  • Jon
  • ORLEANS, ON, Canada
  • 10-12-05

7 Cheapness Chants

This book provides hours of advice on how to be truly cheap rather than advising on how to formulate a decent financial plan and put it into action on a practical level. The book is better for someone who is making very little income and needs to pinch every penny to get out of debt rather than someone who is looking to take a proactive approach to planning their finances. I would also add that the authors dabblings into the moral arena (good gift giving) are not appropriate.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

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    3 out of 5 stars

Singletary Says

This book was okay but it should have been read by the Author, the voice does not fit.

The book was filled with ways to save money and common sense issues.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

  • Overall
    2 out of 5 stars

Maybe for Another Audience

This book goes over the most basic concepts and would probably be useful to the least informed on money matters. But if you already have a general knowledge of life insurance, mutual funds, 30-year fixed interest mortgages, etc., you will be wasting your time. Also, it's a bit weird listening to the obviously middle age, white narrator relate the story of the author's "Big Mama," the matriarch who imparted these financial lessons to the author. The book is filled with stories and language that reflect the author's black heritage. But with this narrator, it's like listening to one of the Osmonds read the autobiography of James Brown. It sounds inauthentic, and makes the narrator sound SO PAINFULLY square.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars

Excellent

Very well written and read. Most of the information was based on common sense (which more and more people today seldom use).

3 of 4 people found this review helpful

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GREAT Book

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    1 out of 5 stars

Mostly Common Sense

This book is not much more than conversational common sense. It is a small bit encouraging, not really inspiring and I found that I deleted it from the ipod after a single listen.

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    5 out of 5 stars
  • WADGUY
  • Bensalem, PA USA
  • 03-31-04

Great Book

Most of her advise is pretty good. Few of them I felt were too cheap!
Overall the book does add value and information.

1 of 2 people found this review helpful