A Smart Girl's Guide to Money by Nancy Holyoke

A dollar earned here means much more than a dollar earned in salary.Īmerican Girl: A Smart Girl’s Guide to Money isn’t a complete guide. I can spend hours writing an article for this site. It also included one page about how $20 can mean different things to different people and even different things to you based on how you acquired it and what the expectations were. The book closes out with a few pages on donating to charity. Finally, there is a page about the power of compound interest. Also, it would give me a chance to put a few dollars in his how to teach kids about money. I’ll give it a try anyway – chocolate usually works. I’m tempted to ask my 9-year-old son to read it, but I know it would have be a big bribe – teenage girl books are weird for 9-year-old boys. A teenager will plow through this book quickly. I can’t emphasize that enough, because getting kids to choose to read about personal finance is not easy. It’s the perfect presentation for a teenage audience. It’s 95 pages, with colorful illustrations on every page. To start, the book isn’t one page and four words long.

None of this makes any sense, but this is where we are. So, with two boys and no daughters, I’m going to attempt to review a personal finance book for teenage girls by a company that sells outlandishly priced products. Using Amazon’s “Look Inside” feature, it seems like the content itself is the same and the illustrations are just as good – it’s just a different style. It has a different illustrator, but the same author. The copy I have is the original version from 2006 and that link is to the revised version that’s in print today. Curiosity got the best of me, so I bought it. When my wife saw the book, American Girl: A Smart Girl’s Guide to Money by Nancy Holyoke, we joked that it must be one page long with only four words, “Don’t buy our products!” However, it was used and only a couple of dollars. Instead of American Girl stuff, my kids got drawn into Pokemon consumerism. I have to admit that when we found out that we having were boys, a part of me was relieved to not have to get drawn into that consumerism. Back when the nieces were in their American Girl phase my wife saw the prices on the accessories in a catalog and quipped, “I hope you get an American job that pays American money for this stuff.” They were used, without the boxes, and in some cases not even in the original clothes. My wife sold five of her niece’s American Girl dolls for around $500. That’s before you get into the extra clothes and accessories.

Some of their dolls cost hundreds of dollars. American Girl is a strange brand to put out a guide to money.

A Smart Girl's Guide to Money by Nancy Holyoke