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Start with 5 Things You Need To Do If You Make Less Than $100k (21 min, The Financial Diet), then 9 Things To Stop Spending On By 30 (26 min, The Financial Diet). All 539 lessons here are free, from the teachers' own official uploads. You'll need laptop stand, noise-cancelling headphones, second monitor and a few more basics (about $270 of kit). The book to keep beside you: The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey.

What you'll need

• Laptop stand: Screen at eye level for long study sessions.
• Noise-cancelling headphones: Focus through long video lessons.
• Second monitor: Video on one screen, practice on the other.
• Wireless keyboard and mouse: Comfortable for hours of typing.

Lessons

• 5 Things You Need To Do If You Make Less Than $100k (21 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• 9 Things To Stop Spending On By 30 (26 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• 9 Things To Do If You Have $7k Or More In Debt (21 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• The Biggest Mistakes in Personal Finance (16 min, Ben Felix, Intermediate)
• The Biggest Myths in Personal Finance (21 min, Ben Felix, Intermediate)
• 11 Things You Think Upgrade Your Home, But Actually Cheapen It (32 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• 6 People Who Have Ruined Our Relationship With Money (25 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• 7 Common Self-Care Tips That Actually Make You More Stressed (24 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• 9 Ways You're Sabotaging Your Budget Without Realizing It (14 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• Are Americans Too Poor To Be Woke? (75 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• carrie bradshaw: the ultimate pick me (69 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• @gremlita On Fast Fashion, Affordable Thrifting, & Her Biggest Style Splurges (69 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• How Celebrities & Influencers Financially Gaslight Us About Beauty (19 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• How Gen Z Became The "Buy Everything, Own Nothing" Generation (60 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• I’m $60,000 In Debt Because Of My Husband | Asked & Answered (43 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• I Spent 26 Years As A Mormon Tradwife. Then I Woke Up. | Just Getting Good (73 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• millennials need to accept that we're middle aged lol (40 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• no ethical consumption under capitalism lol (19 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• no one is entitled to a child (43 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• Solving The Problem Of The Adult Toddler Husband (59 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• The 30-Year-Old Timeline Is A Total Lie | Just Getting Good (82 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• The Toxic Boomer Money Advice You Need To Unlearn (19 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• What To Do If You're 30 With No Savings (21 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• You Aren't Using These Sneaky Budget Tricks (11 min, Two Cents, Intermediate)
• "You're Not Ugly, You're Just Poor": A Deep Dive (57 min, The Financial Diet, Advanced)
• 7 Insane Life & Money Lessons I Learned From Emily In Paris (21 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• Dynamic Pricing Is Ruining Your Life (62 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• How Gen Z Traded In The Girlboss For The Stay-At-Home Girlfriend (14 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• How "Learn to Code" Backfired on a Whole Generation (8 min, Two Cents, Intermediate)
• I Bought A Home: What I Paid, What I Learned, What You Should Know (26 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• I Bought A House In The South Of France. Here's What I'm Doing With It. (34 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• I Can't Afford My Life Anymore. What Do I Do? | Asked & Answered (55 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• i finally watched materialists. we need to talk (32 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• maybe it's neurodivergence. maybe you're just not very nice. (45 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• Polyamory Won't Fix Your Problems (44 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• Stop Being A Bad Friend (21 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• Stop Gaslighting Yourself That “Everything Is Fine” | Just Getting Good (60 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• The 6 Most Delusional Money Moments In Gilmore Girls (21 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• The Budget-Friendly Secrets Of Home Decor (65 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• The Depressing Normalization Of The Useless Husband (17 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• The Hobosexual Man Is Everywhere, And He Loves 30-Something Women | Just Getting Good (75 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• wake up babe, they're doing return-to-office propaganda again (34 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• we need to talk about belle burden's insane memoir again (50 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• we need to talk about the row sample sale (29 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• Why Rich People Become A**holes (17 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• 10 Rich Person Behaviors That Poor People Get Judged For (22 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• 10 Things That Are Tacky When You're Poor, But Classy When You're Rich (24 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• 12 Things You Should Invest In Vs. Be Cheap About (21 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• 25 Items Under $25 That Actually Make You More Grown-Up (30 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• 5 Little Ways I Was Sabotaging Myself Without Realizing It (21 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• 5 Tools That Changed My Personality Type (25 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• 9 Things You Must Do If You Grew Up Poor (38 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• Aja Dang On Paying Off $200K Of Debt, Being The Breadwinner, & Running A Business During COVID (60 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• can i talk about feeling ugly? (39 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• Cancel Culture Was Never Real (85 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• Celebrity Plastic Surgery, Beauty Gaslighting, & The Myth Of Skincare (63 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• Dating Doesn't Work For Women Who Aren't Desperate | Unpartnered Wealth (72 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• Everyone Wants A Village, But No One Wants To Be A Villager (22 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• How Not To Settle: In Dating, Business, & Life (73 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)
• How To Identify & Deal With A Narcissist, Financially And Otherwise With @DoctorRamani (69 min, The Financial Diet, Intermediate)

Books on Budgeting & Saving

1. The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey - View on Amazon
2. I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi - View on Amazon
3. The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel - View on Amazon
4. Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin - View on Amazon