Review of #1 Suze Orman's "2009 Action Plan - Keeping your Money Safe & Sound"

Hello corneyman, and thank you for reviewing this book for us. I appreciate the time you spent not only reading, but the writing of the review had to have taken quite some time. Financial matters aren't my strong suit, but I was smart enough to learn quite a few years ago not to build up credit card debt, save money, buy a house, and do without things I really didn't need. We do live in a society that is credit oriented, and often times you can't even rent a car without a credit card. I don't any credit cards myself, but have on occassion had the need to rent a card. Boy, the hoops you have to jump through. They wanted me to provide 3 utility bills reflecting no past due balances on them before they would accept my visa check card. At the time I had about $8,000.00 in my checking account, and hadn't received a bill from my utilities in quite some time because I pay my bills in advance. When you pay in advance, you don't get a bill. So, I didn't have one to show them! I asked them if it would be okay to go to my account online, and print a screen showing my account had a zero past due balance. Of course, they said that would be acceptable. But, in the long run, I felt I shouldn't have to prove myself to them, and didn't rent the car. I did however, learn a very valuable lesson from that, and will enter into such transanctions more prepared if the need arises again. But, back to what you were saying, although I don't spend my money on designer clothing, I do like to own jewelry. I believer that gold, diamonds, etc are a long lasting investment that increases in value. So in addition to money market funds, retirement funds, and saving, I'm building my jewelry collection.

I have read several of her books. And I really like them. She makes some things much easier for laymen to understand. Most of them echo the same things though. I wonder how this is going to be different. Is it free?

Thanks for the review. I'm glad you shared this with all of us. I know the economy sure is such a mess right now.

Great review! I tried downloading the ebook from Oprah's website the other day, but it wouldn't open because I don't have Adobe Professional installed. I don't know why my computer is giving me such fits because this has never been an issue in the past - it seems whenever I go to a website with .pdf files lately, this has been happening. I'll keep trying, though, because this is information I feel I MUST have on hand this year!!

thanks for sharing those, it is very helpful much when it comes to our finances..we might not have chances to buy that book and for some reasons that it is not out in the market here in our country... have a ncie day! God bless!

Hello my friend cornyman Ji, It is very nice to go through your discussion, but I feel sorry for dis-appointing you as I do not need any such professional knowledge on saving. I have always made my budgets surplus and have more than sufficient funds available for rset of our lives. My hubby is a pensioner and we have limited requirements. We are not fussy to acquire any thing, which may require lot of funds. But, your suggestion of book may help many here. may god bless you and have a graet time.

Hi cornyman. It is nice that you share this with the mylotters. It will be helpful for many people. I know that many of us know how to keep our finances in a good state but the tech informations of mortgage,insurance, etc will be nice to know. Have a nice day.

I'm gald you got to read this I really like Suze because she tells it like it is and doesn't candy coat anything. What we need right now is the truth not some pie in the sky picture.

Well, everyone have to plan to save and carefully spend money in purchasing within the budget. So, one must read this Suze Orman's ebook to remain in safe side. One must have knowledge of insurance companies and other safe investments.