True Money Stories: Madcap Musings About Family Life and Personal Finance

True Money Stories: Madcap Musings About Family Life and Personal Finance

Are you looking for a book about how to manage your personal finances that isn't dry and boring? If so, you've come to the right place! True Money Stories is not your typical money management guide. It’s a collection of humorous personal finance essays from Len Penzo’s popular, long-running, and highly unique award-winning eponymous blog, Len Penzo dot Com , which he launched in December 2008. At its peak, the website was welcoming nearly two million visitors a year who were attracted to Len’s easy-to-read, light-hearted, and highly entertaining collection of curious musings and stories about his madcap extended family – and the lessons about money and finances that he distilled from those hilarious experiences along the way. Of course, all the usual topics are covered: budgets, debt, saving strategies, taxes, college, business, banking, frugal living, shopping, real estate, insurance, and retirement. But there are also plenty of financially offbeat subjects, including travel, marriage, precious metals, do-it-yourself plumbing, financial astrology, automobiles, home remodeling, personal diaries, unusual pecuniary trivia, blind taste-test experiments, George Clooney (yes, George Clooney), product evaluations, and much, much more. We promise you this: After you finish reading True Money Stories , you’ll be better able to manage your household finances successfully. We also promise that you’ll walk away feeling like a genuine member of the Penzo family. That’s because the essays are heavily focused on Len's wife, kids, family dogs, in-laws, uncles, aunts, and cousins. Then again, even his neighborhood kids and work colleagues manage to get into the act! So, if you’re looking for a quirky collection of fun, fast-paced short stories that dispense a little hard-earned pecuniary wisdom from a guy who has been married for more than 30 years while raising two kids and several family dogs – and making quite a few humbling mistakes along the way – well, pull up a chair and get comfortable because True Money Stories is indeed the book for you.