the other day i was talking with my 17 year old little sister and she told me the first thing she is going to do is buy a new car when she gets out of high school and it occured to me that she has no idea how to manage money, i tried talking with her about buying a new car wasn't the best chose in her situation but of course she didn't listen. Its doesn't help that the people around me believe I'm very odd for "actually thinking" that i will not need to work by the time I'm 35. but to give you a little back story on her situation. Our parents are awesome but I found out later on that they are bad with money and we never talked about money growing up. i learned the hard way on how to manage money until finding the FI path on my own and I have been on the FI path for about 2 years now. I'm still amaze by how much about finances i did not know. Everytime i share these methods or ideas i get shut down. but still I've help encourage my sister to take college credit course in high school, as well of take advantage scholarships and oportunies through high school. so finishing her senior year she has many oportunies ahead of her. I've tried talking with her about the "taboo topic" of money but i don't seem to get anywhere. Part of me thinks i should back off, but i would hate for her to make the same mistake as many many people around us have done. anyways i know that she does like to read and i think it'd be a great way for her to get her thinking about finances. there are lots of great books about finances but i can't seem to find one that would appeal to her. the closest i found are books geared towards educated 20 years olds with jobs, careers already.
do you have any suggestion for a book i could get for her? or any others ideas on how i should approach the situation?
