Book 1 · Your 20s

HOLE IN YOUR WALLET?

A money guide for women in their 20s

Your paycheck lands, and a week later it's gone. This book shows you where it went and how to stop it: your real take-home pay, a plan for every payday, paying off cards and buy-now-pay-later, the new student loan rules, your first investment, and how to ask for more money.

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Cover of Hole in Your Wallet? A Money Guide for Women in Their 20s by Zoe Layne: a pink wallet with a hole and coins falling out, on a coral background

Plain English. Real numbers. No lectures.

Nobody taught most of us how money moves. These books do it one decade at a time, with the rules as they actually are, every figure sourced, and real-life stories you'll recognise.

See it

Find your real number, where every dollar goes, and the leaks you didn't know you had.

Steady it

A plan for every payday, debt you can actually pay off, and a cushion for the surprises.

Protect and grow it

Your first investment, insurance that makes sense, a car that doesn't trap you, and the pay you deserve.

One book for every decade

Your money questions change every ten years. Each book in the Hole in Your Wallet? series is written for the one you're in now.

Book 1Your 20sBudgeting, debt and your first real money moves
Book 2Your 30sHomes, weddings, babies and catching up
Book 3Your 40sPeak costs, teens and building wealth
Book 4Your 50sCatching up and planning your exit
Book 5RetirementMaking it last

Free printable worksheets

Every worksheet from Book 1, ready to print and fill in by hand. 20 pages, in US Letter and A4.

  • Your money check-in
  • All 14 chapter worksheets, from your debt list to your net worth
  • A 30-day spending audit and a bill calendar
  • Your first 90 days, one step a week

You'll also hear when the next book is out.

"At 25 I had eleven credit cards and about $25,000 of debt. I paid it off in two years with a paper notebook and a pair of scissors."

About Zoe

Zoe Layne paid off about $25,000 of credit card debt across eleven cards in two years, with nothing fancier than a paper notebook and a pair of scissors.

She writes plain-English money books for women who were never taught how money works and are done pretending they were. She is not a financial adviser. She has simply been through it.

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