I am so happy I purchased this book. It's an excellent guide that explains everything a woman needs to know about money (savings, investments, insurance) - everything! If you are living paycheck to paycheck and are unhappy with your spendings, please read this wonderful book! It will not dissapoint!

After watching about one hundred episodes of 'Til Debt Do Us Part' and 'Maxed Out', and struggling through my own financial difficulties, I decided to learn how to manage my finances and thought purchasing this book would help. Although it did provide some good information, such as how to find out CPP contributions and the value of saving and investing early, it did not help me as a student struggling to pay down debt while working part time jobs. This book, I think, would be more valuable to career women who have the financial means to get out of debt, but just don't realize it. It's great for general information, and in 10 years if I still don't know how to manage my finances I'll probably regret returning it, but it does NOTHING for women such as myself who are looking for a step-by-step process to follow when it comes to managing money effectively. After spending a good two hours in Chapters trying to decide which financial advice book to buy, I'm embarassed to admit that I was duped by one chapter that seemed to have the information I was looking for. It turned out, however, that this one chapter that outlined how you would create a filing system, seemed incomplete in some areas, and most of it did not apply to me as a student. Bach states that to start paying debt down, 'you need to start living on cash', but doesn't provide any information as to how to do this. As Gail Vaz-Oxlade pointed out in one episode of 'Til Debt', living on cash can get you in to trouble, especially if you don't know how!

I bought this book because I wanted to start planning for my retirement while I was still young, but was overwhelmed by all of the existing information elsewhere. David Bach's simple, anecdotal style of writing provided for an entertaining read that kept me interested enough to finish the book, while still having learned the essentials about investing in my future. I could read it a second time and learn even more!

As someone who works in the financial services industry, I read plenty of books about investing and financial planning - especially those directed at women. David Bach's book is a pleasure to read and I would recommend to anyone - from a beginner in investing to a professional. His ideas are practical and realistic, and the book's anecdote from actual women help humanize his topics. A great book all-around.