Educate and empower yourself when it comes to managing your money.
It can be overwhelming to muddle through all of the books and articles promising to help you manage your money. Here's a shortlist of resources that my clients have found to be most helpful.
BOOKS
For Toddlers
For Children in Elementary School
For Teens
For Parents
For Adults:
BLOGS
TOOLS
QUIZZES
ARTICLES (organized by topic)
APPS
BOOKS
For Toddlers
- The Berenstain Bears Get the Gimmies and The Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Money by Stan Berenstain. (Watch video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhR4VtfgNWU, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9cAJIaAEYQ)
- The Very Best Place for a Penny by Dina Herman Rosenfeld
- Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst
For Children in Elementary School
- Not Your Parents' Money Book: Making, Saving, and Spending Your Own Money by Jean Chatzky
- Isabel’s Car Wa$h by Sheila Bair
For Teens
- The Motley Fool Investment Guide for Teens by David and Tom Gardner
- The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley
For Parents
- Raising Money Smart Kids: What They Need to Know about Money and How to Tell Them by Janet Bodnar
- The Opposite of Spoiled by Ron Lieber
For Adults:
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street - Burton Malkiel
- Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties by Beth Kobliner
- The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
- The Behavior Gap: Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things With Moneyby Carl Richards
- The Millionaire Next Door
- The Opposite of Spoiled - Ron Lieber
- The Total Money Makeover -- Dave Ramsey
- How to Be Richer, Smarter, and Better-Looking Than Your Parents by Zac Bissonnette
- Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich By Jason Zweig
BLOGS
- 20somethingfinance.com
- Moneyunder30.com
- Wisebread.com
- GoodFinancialCents.com
- FinancialSamurai.com
- PTMoney.com
- FinancialMentor.com
- MrMoneyMustache.com
TOOLS
- Time is money Chrome extension
- Calculate the value of your degree
QUIZZES
ARTICLES (organized by topic)
- Budgeting:
- How to Buy Happiness (Lifehacker)
- Website to Save You Money
- Energy Vampire: how much are your devices costing you in wasted energy costs?
- Find the lowest medical costs
- Student loans:
- Dee-1 song, "Sallie Mae Back"
- First job?
- Money & Relationships:
- Best tips
- Marriage and taxes
- Money conversations to have when your relationship gets serious
- How to talk to your spouse about money
- Build your credit:
- Want to invest in the stock market?
- Charity:
- Is this a qualified charitable deduction?
- Teens:
- Organizing financial paperwork: what to keep, what to toss
- Retirement:
APPS
- The Great Piggy Bank Adventure (online version; app)
- Visa’s Financial Literacy games: http://practicalmoneyskills.com/games/
- Financial Football: a fast-paced, NFL-themed video game developed by Visa. Just answer financial questions to advance down the field and score touchdowns.
- Money Metropolis: Kids ages 7–12 to navigate a multi-dimensional world, making life decisions that will affect whether their virtual bank account shrinks or grows.
- Peter Pig's Money Counter: Kids ages 4–7 can practice sorting and counting coins with the help of wise Peter Pig.
- Monopoly and Life board games
- The Stock Market Game: http://stockmarketgame.org/expparent.html