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11/20/09
working hard isn't bad. working smart isn't bad, either. it's sad that jeana's spending habits got the best of her...it's hard to argue with the whole real estate commission income. working for less amount of time and making the same cash as vicki would be great if you didn't blow it all at nordstrom's in one day.
as much as dr. phil annoys me, on a weekly basis i find myself saying "the best indicator of future behavior is past behavior". the more you know! *starburst*
11/20/09
Excellent point. It was really sleazy for Vicki to announce on national T.V. that Jenna had asked for money and to carry on like she had been physically assaulted.
11/20/09
I had friends who were very irresponsible with their money and asked me to "borrow" money. I never got paid back and every single one of those friendships ended. Which was exactly Vicki's point.
I've reached the point where I purposefully avoid friendships with fiscally irresponsible people because I know they may come calling for money.
I still give money to my siblings who are hard up but even that is frustrating because I watch every dollar and don't afford myself many luxuries and then the money goes sailing out the window anyway to pay for my fiscally irresponsible siblings who have kids to feed. It makes me feel very imbalanced.
11/20/09
what annoys me the most are friends who hide their fiscal irresponsibility and leave out the really important details of why they really need that check from their parents every month when they're over 30, divorced, employed with a decent job, charging everything to their credit card, sold their house in boom times and are living in a one bedroom apartment with a dog and a car that their parents are keeping for them. like, wtf. what gives.
11/20/09
I know countless people who are still getting handouts from their parents as adults. In fact my daughter lives in a rental building in New York where almost everyone she has met is a college graduate whose parents are paying their rent into their thirties and beyond.
These same people are in for a hard reality check once their parents are gone.
11/20/09
#tips
11/20/09
From what I've seen a lot of married couples wipe out their savings to make every opportunity available for their young ones (twelve years of private school, followed by an even more expensive private college, cars, trips and more).
Without any savings these people are going to be seriously screwed when there's no social security or medicaire when they are too old to work.
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Thinking about it now, I really NEVER felt embarrassed, which I find kind of interesting. I never even thought of it - I was just happy to have a car to drive! For whatever reason, I think I'd be a little more bothered by it today...
11/19/09
Different levels of wealth are always a fucked-up thing in friendships. I guess the only thing you can do is try to have some self-awareness, and by sympathetic to your friends' struggles but don't put yourself in a position where people can take advantage of you.
Also, somebody get her a dictionary, please.
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Also, winner of the week for freakiest screen grab. Yikes, Lynne!
11/19/09
Did he ask Lynne about her plastic surgery? Did the show pay for her and her daughter's procedures? Because how else could they have paid for it when she's getting kicked out of her house?
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it can be done. it takes this foreign concept called 'self-control', which everybody today seems to be lacking.
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And, there is a big difference between loaning a friend a couple bucks and couple thousand bucks, and though I don't watch any RH right now, I have a feeling the controversial non-loan would have been in the latter category.
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#tips
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