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A big thank you to Marcia for originating Mailbox Monday<\/a>. In this weekly meme you share books which came into your home during the week. All of my books this week came from my local award winning library system, the Columbus Metropolitan Library. I’ll start leaving comments on my fellow meme-sters posts after I get my commenting password reset.<\/p>\n Here are the books I picked up this week:<\/p>\n Get Good with Money<\/strong> by Tiffany “The Budgetnista” Aliche –<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No matter where you stand in your money journey,\u00c2\u00a0Get Good with Money<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0has a lesson or two for you!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dErin Lowry,\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>bestselling author of the\u00c2\u00a0Broke Millennial series Revealing this practical ten-step process for the first time in its entirety,\u00c2\u00a0Get Good with Money<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0introduces the powerful concept of building wealth through\u00c2\u00a0financial wholeness<\/em>: a realistic, achievable, and energizing alternative to get-rich-quick and over-complicated money management systems. With helpful checklists, worksheets, a tool kit of resources, and advanced advice from experts who Tiffany herself relies on (her \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Budgetnista Boosters\u00e2\u20ac\u009d),\u00c2\u00a0Get Good with Money<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0gets crystal clear on the short-term actions that lead to long-term goals, including:<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0A simple technique to determine your baseline or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153noodle budget,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d examine and systemize your expenses, and lay out a plan that allows you to say yes to your dreams. An invaluable guide to cultivating good financial habits and making your money work for you,\u00c2\u00a0Get Good with Money\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>will help you build a solid foundation for your life (and legacy) that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rich in every way.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Rat Queens Volume 6: The Infernal Path<\/strong> Written by Kurtis J. Wiebe\u00c2\u00a0 and Illustrated by Owen Gieni –<\/p>\n The further adventures of the booze guzzling, death dealing battle maidens-for-hire in the business of killing all the gods\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 creatures for profit. Hannah the Rockabilly Elven Mage, Violet the Hipster Dwarven Fighter, Dee the Atheist Human Cleric, Betty the Hippy Smidgen Thief and Braga the Orc Princess.<\/span><\/p>\n RAT QUEENS is a modern spin on an old school genre, a monster killing epic with a twisted sense of humor.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things<\/strong> by Jenny Lawson –<\/p>\n In\u00c2\u00a0Furiously Happy<\/i>, a humor memoir tinged with just enough tragedy and pathos to make it worthwhile, Jenny Lawson examines her own experience with severe depression and a host of other conditions, and explains how it has led her to live life to the fullest:<\/p>\n “I’ve often thought that people with severe depression have developed such a well for experiencing extreme emotion that they might be able to experience extreme joy in a way that \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcnormal people’ also might never understand. And that’s what\u00c2\u00a0Furiously Happy<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0is all about.”<\/p>\n Jenny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s readings are standing room only, with fans lining up to have Jenny sign their bottles of Xanax or Prozac as often as they are to have her sign their books.\u00c2\u00a0Furiously Happy<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0appeals to Jenny’s core fan base but also transcends it. There are\u00c2\u00a0so many<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0people out there struggling with depression and mental illness, either themselves or someone in their family\u00e2\u20ac\u2022and in\u00c2\u00a0Furiously Happy<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0they will find a member of their tribe offering up an uplifting message (via a taxidermied roadkill raccoon).\u00c2\u00a0Let’s Pretend This Never Happened<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0ostensibly was about embracing your own weirdness, but deep down it was about family.\u00c2\u00a0Furiously Happy<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0is about depression and mental illness, but deep down it’s about joy\u00e2\u20ac\u2022and who doesn’t want a bit more of that?<\/p>\n What arrived in your mailbox this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A big thank you to Marcia for originating Mailbox Monday. In this weekly meme you share books which came into your home during the week. All of my books this week came from my local award winning library system, the Columbus Metropolitan Library. 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\nTiffany Aliche was a successful pre-school teacher with a healthy nest egg when a recession and advice from a shady advisor put her out of a job and into a huge financial hole. As she began to chart the path to her own financial rescue, the outline of her ten-step formula for attaining both financial security and peace of mind began to take shape. These principles have now helped more than one million women worldwide save and pay off millions in debt, and begin planning for a richer life.<\/p>\n
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0An assessment tool that helps you understand whether you have a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make enough\u00e2\u20ac\u009d problem or a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153spend too much\u00e2\u20ac\u009d issue\u00e2\u20ac\u201das well as ways to fix both.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Best practices for saving for a rainy day (aka job loss), a big-ticket item (a house, a trip, a car), and money that can be invested for your future.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Detailed advice and action steps for taking charge of your credit score, maximizing bill-paying automation, savings and investing, and calculating your life, disability, and property insurance needs.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>Ways to protect your beneficiaries\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 future, and ensure that your financial wishes will stand the test of time.<\/p>\n