Anybody out there make a New Year’s resolution to take charge of da dollars in 2011?
Anybody out there who didn’t make that kind of personal vow?
Whoever you are, you need this book:
“Personal Investing: The Missing Manual” (O’Reilly) was written by a trio of financial specialists who address saving for retirement, education and long-term health care.
Plenty of us came up with no money education whatsoever. The authors demystify dollar-related doin’s such as:
- What is investing?
- How do I create realistic goals?
- What if I can’t abide risk?
- Will I get rich right off the bat?
- Would a REIT be wrong? (Okay, they didn’t put it that way. I just couldn’t resist the pun.)
There’s lots more — it takes a whole book, after all — but you get the picture.
To enter:
- Leave a comment below
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- Sign up to follow Surviving and Thriving on Twitter or Facebook
If you do any (or all!) of these things, please leave separate, additional comments to get credit for each entry.
The deadline is 9 p.m. PST on Monday, April 11. And just for fun, I’ll throw in an Anchorage Daily News moose calendar.
I would love to win. I don’t know anything about investing.
I follow you on Facebook.
I’m going well at keeping a budget, but within the next few years I want to start investing my dollars (rather than just saving my dollars). Thanks for the chance to win!
..and I subscribe by RSS. Thanks again!
This sounds like a great book to show you how to get your feet wet in investing. Investing seems so overwhelming. I could really use a manual.
I need all the (reasonably price/FREE) help I can get.
I would like a free book.
I don’t know anything about investing, I need this book.
This would come in very handy!
subscriber!
Facebook Follower!
Put me in the pool too!
I’d like to learn more about investing.
I also friended you on Facebook.
I would love to learn more about investing. Thanks for the chance to win.
What a kind offer! My investment advice for the future? Phone companies…AT & T or Verizon as data and the next generation of phones will drive demand. And electric utilities…with the movement to electric and hybrid vehicles the winner will be the providers of that electricity. The losers will ultimately be the oil companies. Remember …as folks retire those 15 MPG cars and trucks and replace them with hybrids delivering 50 MPG…mileage will more than triple…Just my 2 cents…
I need to learn more about investing, and I subscribe via RSS
I’d love to read that book! I currently subscribe to the blog via RSS.
I also have been following you on Twitter. (Haven’t seen too many recent posts, though…*nudge, nudge*)
Finally, I followed your Facebook link and have “Liked” your profile, but I guess I’m not up on the latest FB changes ’cause I can’t figure out how to do anything more than that with your FB profile.
Hi Donna,
I would love to win this book!
I also follow you on FB and “Like” your page…
I have mutual funds, but betond that am clueless…. love to read the book!
Gosh. I’d love to have this to give to one of my students. We could have writing competition and this could be the prize. They sure could use it!
I can use all the help I can get.
Sign me up pls!
Facebook too.
Love to win this great book. Sounds like what I need.
Would love to learn more about investing!
Wow. Thx.
Email entry.
No I’m not smart enough to manage my money. That’s why I need the book : ) .
I would love to enter too as I I was brought up with not much knowledge of saving and investing and it hasnt gotten me too far LOL! Thanks for the cool and helpful giveaway! Love your posts! Take care, ~Melissa
Sounds great, I’d love to win it!
Having a hard time saving money at the moment (work hours cut) but I do want to know what to do with it when better times come.
It’s been too long since I’ve won anything and I’d really like this book.
Also, I subscribe to your RSS feed.
Please enter me!
I love to learn more and would love to read the book! Thanks!
I need this book.
I’m always looking for more ways to learn about investing. Thanks for the giveaway!
I get your emails.
I follow on twitter.
I need to know more about investing as well.
I subscribe to Surviving and Thriving via RSS.
I follow you on twitter.
It would be great to own this book. Sounds like a good resource.
This is definitely the area that I need help! I would love to win this book.
I’m an email subscriber. allali40(at)gmail(dot)com
oooh. I’d love this book!
I really want the calendar.
That’s not BILL O’Reilly, is it?
tee hee…..
educate me
I’m ready to start a financial coaching business, and this book sounds like another great resource for me to us – and possible refer for client reading.
Count me in for the drawing please!
I would like to win this!
Subscribed through RSS~
I follow you on Twitter!