ISBN: 9798174495463 - the great money escape: how your money quietly disappears and why you keep letting it (1 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - You didn't get robbed in an alley. You agreed to terms and conditions you didn't read, walked into a grocery store for milk, and paid $84 for situational cheese.Payday is a short-lived miracle with a three-day warranty.There is a sacred moment every month: your phone chimes, a deposit lands, and for approximately fifty-four minutes, you feel like a sovereign monarch with financial sovereignty. By dinner, your paycheck has been divided, subjugated, and marched off to satisfy obligations it never personally incurred.You didn't splurge on diamonds. You didn't buy a yacht. So where did the money go In The Great Money Escape: Why My Money Disappears and Why I Let It Go, author and observational humorist Prashant Chandola (Writer Don) leads a laugh-out-loud, unsparing investigation into the polite, micro-heists that quietly drain perfectly good bank accounts.Inside this slightly accurate field guide, you will discover: The Autopay Serial KillersHow $9.99 charges hide behind rent like minnows behind a shark, draining hundreds in silent subscriptions for a 'better self' that never showed up.The Grocery Store HeistWhy the milk is always placed at the furthest corner of the store and why a cavernous shopping cart makes you shop with hungry ambition.Friendship vs. $400The psychological hostage crisis that begins the second you say 'Don't worry about it, pay me whenever.'Festival Math & Wedding WoundsThe terrifying arithmetic families perform when emotion is high and restraint is low-and how 'people will talk' funds endless overspending.The Boring SuperpowerWhy safety feels like absolutely nothing-and why automating your savings before 9 a.m. on payday is the only cage money can't slip out of.'A witty, field-tested autopsy of why cash vanishes the moment it hits your account - and how to outsmart the polite little heists that leave you broke by the tenth.'.…