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A review by actuallyahorsereads
Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping by and Get Your Financial Life Together by Erin Lowry
5.0
I am absolutely terrible when it comes to money. For whatever reason, I just have never been able to wrap my head around it or how best to go about budgeting. I’ve tried just about everything, but nothing seems to stick.
Then I picked up this book on a lark one morning. I usually tend to stay away from books with “millennial” in the title, because usually they’re insulting as they’re written by people twice my age trying to score good with the young crowd, and I can’t stand being talked down to, but for some reason, this book caught my eye.
I started flipping through it, skimming the pages, and found a lot of the things in it were immediately helpful and very accessible to someone who knew exactly zero about money.
I bought it and now 72 hours later, I have a budget set that I feel like I can reasonably keep up with, a consistent amount of money going toward student loans, credit cards, rent, and even savings while still having money to spend AND I even felt confident enough to set up my 401(k).
Honestly, I can’t say for sure what spoke most to me about this book, but it really won me over. I can’t recommend it enough for anyone who is looking for some road map of how to set out their finances and have peace of mind that they’re actually going to have one day.
It’s not for everyone, but it is definitely for anyone who is monetarily dense, like I am, and needs a gentle push and a hand to hold as they stumble down the road in the direction of adulthood.
Then I picked up this book on a lark one morning. I usually tend to stay away from books with “millennial” in the title, because usually they’re insulting as they’re written by people twice my age trying to score good with the young crowd, and I can’t stand being talked down to, but for some reason, this book caught my eye.
I started flipping through it, skimming the pages, and found a lot of the things in it were immediately helpful and very accessible to someone who knew exactly zero about money.
I bought it and now 72 hours later, I have a budget set that I feel like I can reasonably keep up with, a consistent amount of money going toward student loans, credit cards, rent, and even savings while still having money to spend AND I even felt confident enough to set up my 401(k).
Honestly, I can’t say for sure what spoke most to me about this book, but it really won me over. I can’t recommend it enough for anyone who is looking for some road map of how to set out their finances and have peace of mind that they’re actually going to have one day.
It’s not for everyone, but it is definitely for anyone who is monetarily dense, like I am, and needs a gentle push and a hand to hold as they stumble down the road in the direction of adulthood.