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| The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge : 5 Principles to Transform Your Relationship with Money | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ted Klontz, Rick Kahler, Brad Klontz
Publisher: HCI
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (27 reviews)
Sales Rank: 129622
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 200
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 4.7 x 0.8
ISBN: 0757303544
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.0240019
EAN: 9780757303548
ASIN: 0757303544
Publication Date: November 15, 2005
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Thought Provoking January 27, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Enlightening regarding the way you view money and how this affects so many other areas of your life. The impact of early script imprinting and its affect on your adult life is both fascinating and helpful.
 A lot of different people will like this for various reasons January 26, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is worth the price for several different reasons. First, the style is sympathetic, and most people reading this book do not want to have an author shaking a finger at them for their financial living styles. Second, the use of Dickens' famous short story as a lesson outline is not only clever, but also very easy to relate to. Although everyone knows that the miser gets turned around in the end of the story, few have likely stopped to notice that old Scrooge had to go through several stages to realize his money pathology. Also, the book points out that Scrooge was an eager student! The third is that the book is not overly long, and the story flow makes the reader want to keep going, even though we kind of know what is likely to happen in the next chapter.
The author's personal twist near the conclusion is endearing, and of course will not be given away here. It can be a good thing to know that the authors and consultants have had difficult times also. The only example/actual character that sounded less credible, though, was that single woman who earned a quarter million dollars a year, but somehow could never save any money. Yikes! Nobody most of us know.
The general wisdoms in this book are not all that unpredictable. Most have to do with "you are not your money," "it's the LOVE of money that's not good," "you don't escape most problems by getting more net worth," and so forth. True, and always worthwhile being reminded of such. A personal view: too much time spent on the generality of these admittedly good thoughts, not enough numbers thrown in. A good example is the statement (recently found by some uncredited survey, I think) in the middle of "Scrooge" that people usually are better off getting to about $50K annual income; after that, increased happiness doesn't come in the nearly the proportion that increases in net worth do. Probably true, and things like this probably should have been forcefully mentioned a number of times. Readers like to hitch onto tangible, named amounts. Still, it WAS mentioned, and the clever reader will find the passage. A good buy.
Life Lesson Learned from A Story Passed on For Generations October 8, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The three authors take a good look at the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and pull out valuable lessons about money and the emotions behind them. This is a great book for anyone who really wants to understand their relationship with money. The exercises are easy and yet thought provoking. A great read for the holidays.
Review of Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge May 24, 2007
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
good integration of practical and spiritual. Helps consolidate the lessons of the other book by same authors, Conscious finance.
Impressed Financial Advisor January 3, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
The book is great at showing root causes of money dysfunction in a simple format based upon a well known story. Anyone can understand it and I highly encourage all to read it.
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