AARP Tells You How To Love Your Money The Old-Fashioned Way
It's not such a great time to be heading into retirement, which may be a reason prospective retirees may want to glance through the AARP's 50 Ways To Love Your Money PDF.
Ominously emblazoned with Chase and Visa logos, the pamphlet gives you a rundown on money-management nuts and bolts, such as saving (pay yourself first), budgeting (question your needs and wants), managing debt (admit you've got a spending problem), caregiving (establish power of attorney) and credit cards (load up on those tasty Chase Visa cards!)
That last one was a joke, but watching your parents — or especially yourself — barrel into retirement headfirst with no clue as to what they're doing is just sad. So forward the link to anyone in need of a financial summer school crash course.
50 Ways To Love Your Money [AARP via San Antonio Express-News]
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AARP sent me (aged 28) a really scammy letter the other day. it was a "membership card" that needed to be "activated"
the "activation" form was designed clearly to fool people into thinking they had already asked for a membership, and just needed to send payment to make it final. really really really dissapointing AARP
Financial Industry propaganda disguised as advice..
Too bad we don't HAVE any money.
Instead of Constitutional money, what we are allowed to use (thanks to the Congressional giveaway of the currency control back in 1913, to private interests--Federal Reserve Corp.) is nothing more than debt instruments, with which we can discharge debts--while never actually paying for anything. The paper and slugs we use have no value, but we still use them, because we THINK they have value. That's right folks, if our faith in the private bankers' currency were to die, we'd be in quite a fix.
What we have is CREDIT.
Oh, lovely, the pages are in landscape format. I have a widescreen laptop and I have to zoom out to 60% to get the entire page on the screen, which makes the text a bit small -- great for older people!
It's a good set of tips, and applicable to more than just the AARP crowd; I didn't read in-depth, but there wasn't anything obviously stupid or inaccurate. I just think maybe they could've done better with the format.