WHO PUT OPRAH IN CHARGE?
MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2008
Spend your money wisely
The very last person you should seek advice from when it comes to spending your money is "you know who." Her monthly food budget alone equals what you and I will make in our entire lifetime, and that's only if we live to be 110 and work until the day they put us six feet under. No sir! If you need advice about spending your money wisely, then ask anyone over 75. They'll tell you stories about when times were REALLY tough. How they had to walk five miles to school, in the blowing snow, without socks and a coat, only to be told, "Can't you see the weather's too bad to have school? Come back tomorrow, and you better not be late."
They'll tell you stories about how they ate potatoes for weeks, and were happy about it. They'll tell you there was no money for Christmas presents, so they played with their fingers and toes and counted themselves lucky. They'll tell you they lived quite well without watching rich people on television talking to other rich people about what it's like to be rich and how the rest of us can live richly just by watching them.
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