My Favorite Financial Education Books
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Channel: Utah State University Extension · 2016 · Howto & Style
Find your next good read as Amanda shares her favorite financial books. ............... Hi, It's Amanda Christensen with Utah State University Extension. Welcome back, today's video is all about my favorite financial literacy reads. The books that I am recommending today teach timeless money management principles and good money management never goes out of style, so let's get to it, shall we? Grab my pile here. The first book that I have that I would recommend is called, "The Road to 8:50: Proven Strategies for Increasing Your Credit Score." "The Road to 850" is written by Al Bingham, and he basically takes you through proven strategies to increase your credit score. It explains all those things in layman's terms. I would recommend this to anyone who is looking to buy a home in the near future or who is learning about using a credit card for the first time, going out on their own for the first time, or anybody who has been on their own for a while, has used credit a lot, and needs to be reminded about the things that increase or can decrease our credit score, so great read, really a good one I would recommend to anyone wanting to learn more about credit and credit scores. Book number two: "Money Harmony." "Money Harmony: Resolving Money Conflicts in Your Life and Relationships.” This is by Olivia Mellan and one of my favorite all-time topics ever to read about, talk about, discuss, learn about, and try to improve myself has been money conflicts in life and relationships. This book will help you understand maybe why you and your spouse argue a lot about money or why you feel such a need to hold on to your money if that's, if you're kind of a money hoarder, if money is a sense of security for you, or maybe why you feel you need to spend money and that money is a status symbol. I would recommend this book to any newlyweds out there. I would recommend it to anybody who finds that they struggle communicating about money or that money is always a source of conflict when you do talk about it. So that's with a spouse or with your children, whatever the case may be, this book's for you. Books number three. Two books for book number three here: The Berenstain Bears. Gotta love the Berenstain Bears. We've got, "Dollars and Sense" and, "The Trouble With Money." Both of these books are good reads for kiddos to start a conversation about saving money, putting money away, being greedy, and learning to share our money, and I think that they are fabulous for, for fun, for just for the fun of it if anything, but also certainly for teaching about money. The fourth book I would recommend, "Living Well Spending Less." Love love loving this right now. Have you seen this in the stores? It is fairly new, Ruth Soukup, Soak up, not sure how you say her name. The twelve secrets of living the good life. In here she talks about having a budget, about overcoming the destructive cycle of more is never enough, of taking the holidays down a notch when it comes to all the pomp and circumstance with our holidays that can be budget busters, so a good book to read right now I think as we head into the major holiday season and just to find balance and contentment in our, this idea of living well spending less. The fifth and final book I want to recommend I actually don't have with me to show you; I think I must have left it at the office or lent it out to someone. I don't know, probably I'd lend it out to someone because I love this book so much. It's called, “The Automatic Millionaire.” It teaches all about automating your payments from your bank account out to a savings account for your bill pay and what automating some of those things can do for you financially that the ease just in general of automating payments has always appealed to me, but also the strategy that that can be financially so take a look at that if you're interested or if you’d like to improve upon your budgeting skills or your savings habit, for sure take a look at that book. I will change the way you think about it. I promise you'll love it. That's all I have for today. If you have any financial literacy type books that have taught you a lot or that you love, please let me know in the comments below. I would love to hear from you. Also reach out on social media, and let me know what other videos you'd like to see. If there's a question I can answer or a topic to discuss, I'd love to do that. Please reach out and let me know. Thanks again for watching. I'm Amanda Christensen with Utah State University Extension. We'll see you next time, bye. ....................... Connect with USU Extension! Facebook - http://facebook.com/usuextension Twitter - http://twitter.com/usuextension Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/usuextension LinkedIn - http://linkedin.com/company/usuextension Google+ - https://plus.google.com/+usuextension
