Save Karyn
Karyn Bosnak
"I'm not sure how I came across this book, but it was definitely a find.
The story's about this woman who's in her early 20's - which is kind of a recurring theme with me - who moves to New York and manages to live the jet setting lifestyle that she's looking for, not realizing how much it's costing her and within a six-month period, gets herself into some horrendous debt. This is a true story.
So this girl, in order to get herself out of debt, starts a website called savekaryn.com, and people to donate money to pay off her credit cards. She got all kinds of responses. Some of it was negative, like, "You went and spent all that money. Why do you think I would give you my hard-earned money to get yourself out of debt?" Other people were just so amused by like the fact that she would try and do something like that, that they were like, "Okay, I'll give you a dollar or this or that," and just appreciated what she was doing to the website to give it value, which is her stories. She was blogging, and she started selling some of her stuff. I don't think I would have given her money, but I definitely would have spent some time on her website and sent her an email that said, "Good luck."
I've recommended this book to any friend of mine that's in debt just to show that there's a way out of it and how repeatedly making decisions that maybe don't seem so bad are the decisions that get you in the hole. It wasn't like one thing that happened to her. It was a whole bunch of small decisions that made her get into all this debt' and I think that when you're kind of like on that path, it's really easy, really easy to do. I'd give it four out of five stars."
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