Looking for a little financial inspiration? Today and tomorrow only you can score a free Kindle download of “Get Out of Debt Like the Debt Heroes: How 21 Ordinary People Paid Off Over $1.7 Million in Debt,” by Ben Edwards and Jeff Rose.
The e-book is intended as an inspiration, not as a goad or whip, to those in debt. Or in the authors’ words: “Getting out of debt is hard enough, you don’t need someone to judge you. What if instead you had a hero to inspire you!”
Edwards founded the Money Smart Life website. His is an interesting backstory: At age 12 he saved $150 to buy a Nintendo system – but at the last minute he walked out of the store. Listening to his grandfather’s talk of investing, he plugged the $150 into a stock then selling for $5 a share: Wal-Mart. The stock split and his investment doubled; after that, he asked for stock for Christmas, and used proceeds from his high-school job to diversify his portfolio.
Skip ahead some years and he was able to sell the shares to buy his fiancee’s engagement ring, fund an IRA, partially fund their honeymoon and use the rest as a down payment on their home. Be sure to tell this story to all the 12-year-olds you know. (Not that most of them will listen.)
Rose, a certified financial planner who blogs at Good Financial Cents, is the impetus behind the Debt Movement, the Roth IRA Movement and the Life Insurance Movement. (I participated in that last, with an article called “Why I have life insurance.”)
Follow the Amazon link above to get the book for free. Do it now, since this offer is for two days only.
Want a $250 Visa card?
Of course you do. The lovely and talented J. Money (of Budgets Are Sexy) has started a site called TakeOurStuff.com. This week’s giveaway of a $250 Visa gift card is sponsored by online coupon site Retail Me Not.
I’ve already entered and I won’t lie: I hope I win! Next best thing, of course, would be to have one of you win. Sign up through the link above, and good luck.
Two more do-this-already nudges:
The $500 cash giveaway sponsored by Rather Be Shopping ends March 31. You can enter up to 30 times via the Rafflecopter widget at the end of “6 reasons spring cleaning can save you money.”
Free coupon/saving webinar: Sign up for the “Grocery Couponing 101” webinar, jointly sponsored by Savings.com and LearnVest. Designed to reduce your supermarket spending by up to 50%, it takes place from 8 to 9 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, April 4. If you register now you’ll also be signed up for the “Cut Your Costs” boot camp from LearnVest, a free e-mail program designed to help you lower your bills, cut costs on necessities, and plan and reach financial goals.
Seriously: If any of you wins either the Visa gift card or the $500 cash prize, you better come back and say so. After we’re done feeling sorry for ourselves, we’ll celebrate with you.
Thx for passing on the word 🙂 Always sexy when you mutter my name…. I mean….
Even when I don’t preface it with “ooohhhh baby baby”?
Thanks for the heads up! I downloaded the book to my pc and entered the $250- if I win you will definitely hear! 🙂
Hope it’s inspiring — and yes, do tell if you win!
Thank you for the heads up! I downloaded the book and entered the contest for the $250 gift card. I like the idea that the book is encouraging and not smug.
“6 reasons spring cleaning can save you money.”
For me that should read “6 reasons spring cleaning can MAKE you money.” I am helping my parents move out of their home after almost 40 years. My mom, the shopaholic who is now a semi-retired shopaholic, due to never having a job and just spending my dads paycheck and no longer can because he is now retired. Bought only nice highend stuff, many of which I am finding new in box with tags from 20 years ago. Items still neatly folded wrapped in tissue, in the bag with the receipt. Needless to say that crap is on or will be on ebay shortly. Who would have thought a needlepoint canvas that is “vintage” and never done could get me $70 bucks. I will have a busy summer selling it all.
Do your kids a favor, clean your house, sell or donate crap and don’t leave your kids to do it for you when you drop dead.
What is a Rafflecopter widget? Both separately and together?
It’s the “how to enter” widget at the bottom of the piece. You can enter just once or up to 30 times, depending on how many other sites you want to visit/follow.
Get Out of Debt Like the Debt Heroes: How 21 Ordinary People Paid Off Over $1.7 Million in Debt,” by Ben Edwards and Jeff Rose – If only there was a paper copy I could get my hands on.
I can use this book. I am on a path to get out of debt and retire in 4 years. I need all the assistance possible to reach my goal.