Elisabeth Donati

Be The Person People Rave About

February 11, 2013

I’m in the market for a new bookkeeper for my boyfriend’s company, Creative Carpet Repair. He’s taken it, in less than three years, from a single man (him) operation where he ran around in his truck up and down Southern California to a full-fledged company with six full-time employees, an office and close to 300 [...]

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Financial Freedom: What Does it Really Take?

February 7, 2013

Financial Freedom: What Does it Really Take? I get emails all of the time from what appear to be stressed, tired human beings asking some very simple, yet serious, questions about money and financial freedom. This morning I got the following message and just had to share it and respond here on the blog. Question [...]

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Paypal’s BillMeLater Program – DON’T DO IT!

January 14, 2013

Everywhere you look, companies are still offering people the opportunity to be irresponsible with their money. Even PayPal has gotten into the ‘credit’ game recently with their new BillMeLater service…but don’t do it and here’s why. Painful Credit Lessons Don’t Last Long The past several years has brought a huge percentage of Americans to their [...]

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New Year’s Resolutions Do NOT Work…Do These 5 Steps Instead.

December 31, 2012

I know, I know…it’s that time of year that we’ve all been convinced is the perfect time to change something about ourselves… How we look What we weigh How we workout What we eat How we treat others How we treat ourselves How we save money How we spend money How we invest money Though [...]

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RFID – Just another reason NOT to have a credit card!

November 26, 2012

Plastic…it’s everywhere. We have come to accept its insidious use in our lives…but should we? If  you think I’m talking about plastic bags or plastic food containers or the plastic used in almost every toy known to man, think again. Nope…I’m talking about plastic money! If you listen to most financial experts they’ll tell you [...]

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Only Borrow Money to Make You Money

October 11, 2012

Only Borrow Money to Make You Money   Of all of the financial principles we teach in Camp Millionaire and The Money Game, this principle alone would have kept Americans from getting into debt they couldn’t get themselves out of. Making Money Borrowing Money If you don’t understand the world of money, then you can’t [...]

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Financial Education in Schools – The Missing Piece

September 30, 2012

Most parents agree with the idea that financial education should be taught in schools…in addition to being taught at home. There are, however, several challenges with financial education in schools: Schools are gears toward getting students to be proficient in subjects they are tested in: math, reading, writing, science, etc., NOT subjects that are classified [...]

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Money Judgments…What Are Yours?

August 21, 2012

Money…in the worldly scope of making it and using it for whatever we need and want, there are many judgments and opinions about its use. We judge… How it’s made How it’s spent How it’s invested How it’s donated How we think about it Who makes how much and how they make it Whether or [...]

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Why Most Budgets Don’t Work: Reason #4

July 20, 2012

Guest Post by Brian Hamilton, Bestselling Author of 90 Day Money Challenge. Please visit his site for the other 3 reasons budgets don’t work. Who should handle the budgeting in a marriage? The husband or the wife? The spender or the saver? The nerd or the free spirit? If you want to be wealthy, you need [...]

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Is it just me or are we spending money in the wrong places

June 27, 2012

You all know that I’m big on getting financial literacy done instead of spending valuable time, energy and money on more development of more ways that don’t work to teach money. Here’s another example. I just got this in my email and copied it as is. It’s a letter from our ‘trusted’ treasury department, specifically [...]

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