7/27/2008

MoneyMatters101.com Home Recommended Books A Million Is Not Enough Broken Windows/Broken Business Budget Fashionista Cash-Rich Retirement Easy Investing Fast Profits In Hard Times Full of Bull Globality Green With Envy Grow Your Business Guide to Locating, Negotiation... Increase Your Financial IQ It's A Jungle Out There and A Zoo In Here Launching A Leadership Revolution Letting Go Of Your Bananas Master Your Money Type Millionaire Secrets Pre-Foreclosure Real Estate Handbook Read Health Books Rich Dad, Poor Dad See Jane Lead Sell Your Home Stop Sabotaging Your Career Test-Drive Your Dream Job The Breakthrough Imperative The Intelligent Portfolio The Ultimate Plan Think Big Thinking For A Change Wealth for Women Working With You Is Killing Me Links Email Us Apply for a $300 Scholarship If you would like your book to appear on our website, please send a review copy and an electronic excerpt from the book. Send the review copy to: MoneyMatters101.com PO Box 18689 Long Beach, CA 90807 Send the Electronic Excerpt to: aroberts@moneymatters101.com	Green With Envy: Why Keeping up with the Joneses is Keeping Us in Debt by Shira Boss A silent struggle with our money is raging across America, each of us is harboring secret financial desires and discontents, but few dare confess. No matter how much we refuse to admit it, our contentment is based not on the size of our bank account but on how we measure up to those around us. Everyone, regardless of income, occupation, or net worth, wants to keep up with the Joneses, even when it means making financial messes and covering them up. In this myth-shattering tour of America's mind-set about money, Shira Boss offers a tantalizing mix of hard facts and juicy gossip as she peers into the lives and checkbooks of our neighbors…and exposes the shocking gap between public image and what's really going on behind closed doors. Meet: The young couple who move in next door. They pay cash for their apartment, go on shopping sprees, and the wife quits her job to start having babies. You wonder how they can afford it all… The up-and-coming manager and his family who move into a gated community. Within five years their savings are gone, their credit-card debt is over $100,000, and they are still spending. The newly elected U.S. congressman who wants everyone to think he's arrived. Meanwhile, he has to sleep on a cot in his office-for the next fifteen years! The baby boomer at fifty. Some of his old classmates are lawyers and doctors with safety nets, but he's got kids in college and no retirement fund-and the clock is ticking. These financially stressed Americans are the rule, not the exception. And with more of our nation's families going through bankruptcy than divorce, it's time to bring the problem out into the open and tackle it head-on. A compelling tell-all about what's really going on with the Joneses, GREEN WITH ENVY offers a whole new perspective on financial well-being and simple, practical steps for how we can stop trying to keep up once and for all.	Featured Book Advertise on MoneyMatters101.com
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