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The Financial Rules for New College Graduates: Invest Before Paying off Debt--And Other Tips Your Professors Didn't Teach You by An indispensable guide for any recent graduate that provides simple, easy-to-follow rules for making smart personal finance choices during the first decade of one's career. * Demonstrates how simple choices, especially in the years after college, can guarantee (barring misfortunes such as catastrophic illness or drug addiction) a lifelong, healthy relationship with money * Illustrates how to apply the attitudes inherent in modesty, skepticism, and optimism to all financial decision-making, both upon graduating and in the future * Includes a math refresher for understanding the basic principles of interest rates, credit card debt, investment, and retirement savings * Demystifies without boring, simplifies without condescending to, and above all highlights the relevance and practical applications of financial planning during one's first ten years out of schoolIt is never to early to save for retirement! The earlier you start, the more compounding you get -- this is key!!
Sources to look for unclaimed property -- this includes forgotten accounts.
Learn about budgeting, wise shopping and being frugal.
