Many people's excuse for not setting up a written budget is that they don't have enough money to budget, or they think it would be too complicated. What they don't realize is that they do have a budget -- they have income and spend it on expenses -- they just don't have a written plan. They don't control their money; their money controls them. The great thing about having a budget is that you decide where your money goes. This book presents the basics of budgeting in an easy-to-understand format that uses a one-page budget form. It explains the real purpose of money, how to use a checking account, and how to deal with things that can wreck a budget -- like credit cards. Book jacket.
Forty-year-old Lilly Shawcross, divorced mother of two, settled in the Nation's Capital from South Carolina via New York, takes stock of her life and loves, of her impulsive past, her...
With first hand accounts and detailed financial data, Making Ends Meet tells the real story of the challenges, hardships, and survival strategies of America's poorest families.
This issue book presents three perspectives on the question of what can be done to ease the financial problems that plague both the working poor and many middle-class families.
Making Ends Meet: How to Budget When You Don't Have Enough Money
Using ethnographic interviews, Sarmiento studies how globalization affects ordinary Mexican American immigrants, shaping their families and daily lives. Even as families are divided by borders, they try to remain cohesive...
Making Ends Meet: Jobs, Money, and All That Stuff
Making ends meet : challenges facing working families in America : hearing before the Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, August 1, 2001.
Based on biblical principles, and filled with specific, how-to-information and work sheets, 'Making Ends Meet' will help you manage your family finances wisely and in accordance with God's will.
Or will the pennywise pals end up all washed up? Kids will love this darling addition to the Pretty Penny series that focuses on helping others by solving money problems.
Making Ends Meet: The Costs and Implications of Money Management for Low-Income Consumers