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This whole idea started long ago when we (Nigel and Laura Bloomfield) were in college and failing horribly at budgeting. After trying out a lot of different things we eventually came up with a budget that worked for us. It was a tremendous blessing in our own lives to finally have our finances under control.
Eventually we realized that the method we came up with was drastically different from anything other people were using. Ours was easier and much less confusing. In order to help, we felt like we should write a book about what we had discovered. Self-help budgeting books are usually boring, so we came up with something different. We decided to have a giraffe tell our story. Now you can read all about our story and the method in our book, The Happy Giraffe Budget!
Reviewed by Nino Lobiladze for Readers' Favorite
A giraffe received a tree as a gift after reaching adulthood. The giraffe ate all the leaves from the tree pretty quickly. Seeing how sad the giraffe was, other animals came out with different ideas and tried to help him spend the leaves effectively. An elephant suggested keeping a record of the leaves he ate. A lion offered a risky solution that included sales, while a chipmunk told the giraffe to save the leaves. Nothing seemed to work until a jay bird explained how to create a budget to the giraffe. But the giraffe found the jay's approach too complicated. Upon reflection, the giraffe finally resolved his problem. Aren't we all like this giraffe? How often do we stumble on the issue of spending our money more productively without feeling overwhelming guilt? The Happy Giraffe Budget by Nigel Bloomfield and Laura Bloomfield explains the main principles of budgeting to help us develop a better relationship with money.
I appreciated a simple yet profound fable about the giraffe and his struggles with leaves that represented money. Wonderful and expressive illustrations by the talented Jay Fontano complement this instructive story. In The Happy Giraffe Budget, Nigel Bloomfield and Laura Bloomfield offer an easy way to make a budget that relies on the giraffe's experience. The authors explain each aspect of budgeting in the short and straightforward chapters of this informative book. Nigel's and Laura's writing style is humorous, and the overall tone of The Happy Giraffe Budget is friendly. Nigel and Laura thoughtfully consider problems that can emerge even after applying the principles of budgeting described in the book. In The Happy Giraffe Budget, I found many easy-to-accomplish practical recommendations. The book is interactive, as the authors ask us to complete certain tasks and answer specific questions at the end of the chapters. I highly recommend The Happy Giraffe Budget to fans of the self-help genre and finance books.
