Before you buy our book…

Take a deep breath. Control Your Cash: Making Money Make Sense is the culmination of years of researching other people’s bad money habits, presented in one comprehensive volume that will forever change the way you think about and use your money.

Okay, you sold me. But where should I buy Control Your Cash: Making Money Make Sense from?

You could buy it at Amazon. Oh, that’s original. Way to follow the pack. As it is, 8 trillion people* every hour buy something from Amazon. You’ll just be another number.

You could buy it at BN.com. And you’ll receive — a book. Nothing else.

Start controlling your cash by buying Control Your Cash from the source…

(Here comes the big offer:)

Buy the book by clicking here and we’ll throw in a copy of our latest e-book, The Unglamorous Secret to Riches. Not only will you learn how to gain a permanent upper hand on your money, the e-book will teach you in detail the method that self-determining rich people use to build and preserve their wealth: a method that’s so simple that it’s easy to overlook.

No, The Unglamorous Secret to Riches is not one of those ripoff 1-page e-books in which an author condenses something he already wrote because he thinks you’ll be dumb enough to buy the same material twice. The Unglamorous Secret to Riches is informative, dense, and written in that same Control Your Cash style that some readers find refreshing but many can’t get their heads around.

So what to call this? “A $3.50 value, yours free”? Technically that’s true; it’s how much the e-book sells for. But considering that it should be worth at least thousands if you apply it to your everyday life, we’re basically offering you the greatest deal in history not involving Peter Minuit and Manhattan.

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Carnival of Financial Planning COMING SOON

As these folks will attest, financial planning itself is a non-stop carnival.

You’ve got 2 days left to submit for the Carnival of Financial Planning.

The hell is a Carnival of Financial Planning?

If you’ve been here at Control Your Cash for any length, you probably know what a blog carnival is: an agglomeration of personal finance posts from some good (and some atrocious) personal finance bloggers.

The Carnival of Financial Planning is a little different. The guy who runs it, Larry at The Skilled Investor, has no patience for anything that isn’t stellar. Thus he culls and reduces and separates and discriminates what he receives until he’s left with a workable collection of financial planning articles that he’s happy sharing with the world. Which we’ll do right here this Friday.

Anything else I need to know?

No, not really.

Well, yes: adjustable-rate mortgages are bad. Any online brokerage that offers “heat mapping” and access to pretty charts is playing off your stupidity. The only thing that’ll snowball if you follow Dave Ramsey’s “debt snowball” to the letter is your debt itself. It’s stupid to get excited about a $700 iPad that retails for $300 if you’re not twice as excited about a $200,000 house that you can buy for $199,200. If eating unsalted popcorn for 3 meals a day gets your credit card balance down to zero faster, you should do it and worry about nutrient balance later. These and many other tips in Control Your Cash: Making Money Make Sense, available at fine retailers everywhere.