The Financial Diet
by Chelsea Fagan and Lauren Ver Hage
A lifestyle-oriented money book for young adults: budgeting, food and home costs, career and side income, relationships and money, with interviews and illustrations. It is approachable and covers the practical life skills around money as much as the finance.
Read it if…
you want a friendly, design-forward introduction to adult money.
Skip it if…
you want depth on investing; it is light there.
Three things you will actually use
- Know where the money goes before changing it.
- Cooking is the biggest easy saving.
- Talk about money with friends; secrecy costs.
Do this first
Track every expense for two weeks without changing anything.
Our verdict
Friendly introduction.
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