Merryn Somerset Webb, star of Channel 4's hit series ‘Superscrimpers’, shows you how to face the future with both money and confidence in this financial bible for sassy women.Money may not buy you love but it certainly helps with life's other little luxuries. From shopping sprees to pension plans, ISAs to investments, money plays a crucial role in our present and future comfort. We may not like to admit it, but diamonds – or cold, hard cash – really can be a girl's best friend.So why, when women have much to celebrate, are we reluctant to talk about it? Why, when we have more wealth in our own names than ever before, do women take less interest in money than men? And why do we still feel that demonstrating an interest in finance is somehow…unfeminine? Because let's face it – for most of us, Prince Charming and his bank balance just aren't coming. If we want to secure our futures we're going to have to do it ourselves.The good news is that it's not hard to do. Dealing with our personal finances is much, much easier than the financial industry would have us believe. Women tend to make better investors than men too – our instincts, so to speak, are on the money. All we need is a bit of know-how and the confidence to put it into practice.Combining years of financial expertise with a healthy dose of scepticism and an easy sense of humour, Merryn Somerset Webb's sharp, witty and appealing guide to personal wealth for sassy women provides the answers. Whether you're drowning in debt, negotiating a higher salary or tackling the thorny issue of a pre-nup, just one read through and you'll be in a position to sort your finances out for good, transforming them from a constant worry into a source of peace of mind.
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Merryn Webb Somerset. Love Is Not Enough: A Smart Woman’s Guide to Money
Love Is. Not. Enough. The Smart Woman’s Guide to Making (and Keeping) Money
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Section 1: Finding the Money
1. Maximizing Your Income. How to Get Paid What You Are Worth
2. Spend Less, Have More
3. Debt. Getting Rid of It and Keeping Out Of It
Section 2: Using the Money
4. Saving. Finding Your Freedom
5. Investing. Looking to the Long Term
6. Pensions. Provide for Your Old Age
7. Buying a House. Freedom or Slavery?
8. Marriage. Working the Money Together
9. Children. Nuturing with Your Money
10. Divorce. An End and a Beginning
Section 4: Beyond the Money
11. Money. A Facilitator of Happiness, Not a Source of It
53 Money-Saving Tips
The Final Checklist
Useful Websites
Index
About the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
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Love Is Not Enough is in large part the result of hundreds of conversations with women about their finances. My thanks to all those women for their openess. In particular I’d like to thank my sisters, mother and grandmother all of whom spent a great deal more time than I know they would have liked talking to me about their money and their happiness. Other vital contributions came from Gillian Tett, Riko Sakurai, James Ferguson, Tim Somerset Webb, Ashe Peacock, Caroline Bennett, Katy Light, Gabrielle Jourdan, Caroline Law, Heather McGregor, Naomi Caine, Suzette Field, Pheobe Crawsahw, Charlotte de Panafieu, Verity Williams and most often of all from my husband Sandy Cross. I’d also like to thank Nick Reid, Euan Stuart and Craig Davidson for checking for mistakes (although any that remain are of course still my responsibility).
