A financial journalist challenges conventional budgeting advice, advocating for a more flexible approach that alleviates stress and shame around money, offering counterintuitive strategies such as leveraging debt for life goals and planning for retirement without traditional methods, empowering readers to manage their finances more freely.
Free yourself from the tyranny of toxic budget culture, and build an ethical, stress-free financial life.
Track every dollar you spend. Check your account balances once a week. Always pay off your credit card bill in full. Make a budgetand stick to it. These are just a few of the edicts you'll find in virtually every personal finance book. But this kind of rigid, one-size-fits-all adviceusually written for and by wealthy white men (and a few women) with little perspective on the money struggles that many people faceis unrealistic, and only creates stress and shame.
As a financial journalist and educator, Dana Miranda is on a mission to liberate readers from budget culture: the damaging set of beliefs around money that rely on restriction, shame, and greedmuch like diet culture does for food and bodies. In this long-overdue alternative to traditional budgeting advice, Miranda offers a new approach that makes money easy for everyone, regardless of the numbers in their bank account.
Full of counterintuitive advicelike how to use debt to support your life goals, how to plan for retirement without a 401K, and how to take advantage of resources that exist to support those left behind by the forces of capitalismYou Dont Need a Budget will empower readers to get money off their mind and live the lives they want.
