The Childfree Guide to Life and Money
Make Your Finances Simple So Your Life Without Kids Can Be Amazing
Sourcebooks · Print & ebook · December 31, 2024
An essential and comprehensive personal finance and money management guide for Childfree and Permanently Childless people.
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- Who it’s for
- Personal finance for a life outside the usual family script.
- Genres
- Personal Finance, Retirement Planning, Budgeting
- Published
- Sourcebooks, December 31, 2024
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An essential and comprehensive personal finance and money management guide for Childfree and Permanently Childless people. Design the life you want, then create the right financial plan to get you there. Financial planning looks vastly different for DINKs (dual-income, no kids) and SINKs (single-income, no kids). But nearly all the advice out there assumes you have children or will have them someday.
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Everything from pursuing the kind of career you want; deciding whether you want to buy a house, rent, or hit the road as a digital nomad; to planning and filing taxes; budgeting and investing your money; and getting set up for retirement or your later years is different. Simply said: When you aren't following the Standard LifeScript (go to college, get married, buy a house, have kids), you have the time, money, and freedom to do what you want. Childfree Wealth Specialist® Dr. Jay Zigmont flips FIRE—Financial Independence, Retire Early—on its head, showing how people without kids can live the FILE life—Financial Independence, LIVE Early—by following his eight No-Baby Steps. Whether you're single, coupled up, or planning the perfect Golden Girls living arrangement with your best friends, The Childfree Guide to Life and Money is the most comprehensive resource for designing your life, figuring out your finances, and living your best life.
Money, Your Way
Personal finance for a life outside the usual family script.
Come here for
- Financial guidance shaped around life without children
- Thinking through work, housing, investing, and later life
Expect
- A focus on designing your life alongside your financial plan
- A different take on financial independence and retirement
Where it sits
| Personal Finance | 71% |
|---|---|
| Retirement Planning | 51% |
| Budgeting | 22% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Budgeting
- Managing Your Money
- Retirement Planning
- Authors
- Zigmont, Jay Zigmont
- Publisher
- Sourcebooks
- Published
- December 31, 2024
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Budgeting