Brass Knuckle Finance: An Urban Guide for Taking Back Control of Your Finances / Course 1: Budgeting

Introduction

(This aint your ordinary personal finance course)

What do you do when you’ve spent years upon years trying countless personal finance tips, suggestions and books only to find out none of them work? Do you give up? No! You take the most no-bullshit approach to personal finance on earth. From now on, its bigger than a bunch of tips. It’s a life change. This time it’s about results.

Welcome to Brass-Knuckle Finance – A five part course that promises to not only change the way you view money but change the way you view yourself. But please don’t think this is going to be a walk in the park. Many of the steps and mentality changes that we walk you through here are very radical and at first very hard mentally to grasp. These are custom methods that I’ve been personally using successfully so far on hundreds of my clients. Please be advised: this is only for those who are dead serious about changing their situations.

Course One: Your Budget is Sh*t

Land of the Free? You Sure About That?

Land of the Free, Home of the Slave

Posted by: ManAgainstDebt

On my Facebook page where many of this site’s visitors come from, I recently made a comparison between the wealth of someone living in a “3rd world country” (developing nation) and the supposed wealth many of us have here in the US. Well since this is such an important part of what we’re trying to teach everyone on this site and since many of you didn’t understand just how I could make such a comparison, we’re going to need to clear this up now. The truth is that, while yes, someone with low debt and living check to check in a third world country is still considered to be living in poverty, someone making it from check to TWO YEARS AGO’s check is in even worse poverty.

“But how could I be worse off especially if I live in a fancy house and drive a fancy car while they live in a hut with 10 kids?”