by Ben Stein, Phil DeMuth
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Life is not lived all at once—it’s lived in moments, days, months, years, and decades. This means that the financial plans and actions we all have to take to meet our responsibilities sensibly must be organized by years and decades.
Ben Stein wrote the original guide to this subject almost a quarter century ago. Now, Ben, along with Phil DeMuth, the eminent financial planner and writer, have gotten together to update the book, incorporating the massive changes that have occurred in the economy in the past 25 years. This book tells you what and when to save, how much to save, what to save it in, when to spend, and when to say no to your present and yes to your future.
Yes, You Can Get A Financial Life! is a time-traveling guidebook on how to organize the money side of your life for all of the decades of your life.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 Totally awesome; read this book before it's too late, 2008-05-12
The authors might argue that it's never really "too late," but the earlier in life you really comprehend what they are saying in this book, the better off you'll be for the rest of your life.
This book, when properly used, forces you to not only acknowledge but to think about and ponder major expenses throughout your lifetime, and how best to prepare for them. Thinking of getting married and having children without any savings plan and dumping all of your paycheck into the best car/apartment/computer/whatever you can? You should probably think again. And this book will guide your thinking in logical directions.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent primer for life planning, 2008-03-31
This book serves as a good overview of how all individuals should save for the major events of life - having children, buying a home and eventually retirement. The breakdown by decade and the charts indicating how much you should have saved by a particular age to meet your retirement goal make it easy to see if you are on track or not. The authors write in a sort of parental tone, not overly strict parents, but as parents trying to give you advice that will help you the rest of your life.
The authors focus mainly on retirement savings, but there is helpful advice on everything - mothers leaving the workforce to have children, life insurance, not overextending yourself to project a lifestyle you can't afford, and how to pay for your children's college (which they suggest the child do, they are acquiring an asset that will benefit them for the rest of their life and should be willing to pay for it).
I'd certainly recommend this book to anyone who feels they need a little guidance on financial planning.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Good financial book, 2007-11-26
Ben Stein & Phil DeMuth's Yes, You Can Get a Financial Life! is a practical, albeit, sarcastic book that is great for everyone from teenage on. While I don't know enough about the ESPlanner software that they recommend (it was reveiwed recently in Money or Kiplingers and didn't get outstanding support), the principles espoused within the first four chapters (see below) are insightful and in-step with the other publications and websites that I've seen for the middle class such as Fidelity's NetBenefits & 401k.com, Hewitt's Resources (Resources.Hewitt.com), Money (Money.CNN.com) and Kiplinger's. I recommend this book especially for those with teens and wish that I'd had the benefit of this insight in my early years.
3 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
 Retirement, 2007-07-16
I think this book should be separated into three books. 20-30 year olds, 40-50 year olds and pre-retirement people.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Great reference for progress through the years!, 2007-06-14
This book lays out a simple approach to starting and keeping up with financial planning for retirement. The best part about this book is that anyone, and I mean anyone can follow these steps easily. The book shows you where you should be, and how to get there for every 5 years of your life, starting at 25. This isn't a make money fast type book, the opposite if anything. There is simple investment advice than anyone can follow, it even lists index mutual funds from Fidelity and Vanguard to help you out. It also shows simple allocations for your retirement for every decade of your life, including post-retirement.
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