Some time back I re-watched all
the Sex and the City episodes and was inspired to write the blog Wine Gifting
Your Girlfriends Sex and the City Style. This is what happens when I have
writer's block: I am forced to turn to the television for prospective topics.
I regret to inform you all that I have been very behind on my daytime TV
viewing and watched a Days of Our Lives marathon over the weekend.
Read
on for money lessons I've learned from DOOL!
Your Past Will Catch Up
With You
This is really the golden rule of soap operas and of money
management. On Days of Our Lives, it doesn't matter how careful you think you
are when you switch those babies and/or DNA results. It doesn't matter how
thoroughly you think you've covered your tracks after kidnapping your legally
dead sworn enemy, bringing him back to life in some kind of Frankenstein-like
experiment and programming him to be your soldier. You will eventually get
caught and have to face the music. Finances are the same way. Defaulted on that
student loan? Failed to make your car payments on time? Stopped paying off that
credit card when you moved? The powers that be i.e. debt collectors will
eventually find you. On soaps and on your credit report,Has anyone done any
research on making Plastic molding parts
from scratch? Your Past Will Catch Up With You.
Identity Theft Is a
[Rhymes With Witch]
Ask Rafe Hernandez, DOOL's latest identity theft
victim, and I'm sure he will tell you: Getting your identity stolen is really,
really inconvenient. Now sure,Handmade oil paintings for sale at museum
quality, in Rafe's case he was kidnapped and held prisoner in a basement while
being injected with memory-erasing drugs while a perfect plastic surgery-made
replica of himself took over his marriage, job and day-to-day life. But getting
your social security number and other vital info stolen is seriously just as
bad.
Even if you are on top of things and report the theft and alert the
credit reporting companies, that jerk who stole your identity can still come
back to haunt you later on in the form of random accounts and charges. Let's
hope faux-Rafe does not come back to haunt rightful Rafe in a similar fashion,
now that Rafe's wife Sami knows the truth about the identity theft (I'm still a
few episodes behind on the DVR! No spoilers, please!). Either way, identity
theft truly is a [rhymes with witch] and you need to do everything in your power
to prevent it.
People Can Change
Speaking of Sami Brady
Reed Walker Horton DiMera Hernandez, she is the perfect example of our third
DOOL money lesson: people can change. Sami has done some really bad things. She
tried to sell her baby sister on the black market, switched at least two sets of
paternity results, lied about the paternity of her own children, schemed and
blackmailed on an almost daily basis and, during a particularly strange
interlude, dressed like a man named Stan and caused some trouble in the Middle
East.
However, for the last year or so, Sami has turned over a new leaf.
Sure,you will need to get an offshore merchant
account. she still makes the occasional mistake like shooting one of her
ex-husbands in a fit of blind rage,What are the top Hemroids treatments? but she
is really trying to be a better person and mostly succeeding. Overspenders and
debt-ridden folks with low credit scores can change, too. All it takes is a
little hard work and some breaking of bad habits. No more pricey lattes, brew
your own coffee at home. No more using credit cards to pay bills, instead
concentrate on what you can do to get your bills lower. No more seducing your
sister's boyfriend and using bulimia as a blackmailing tool--instead concentrate
on being a good mother and re-programming your brainwashed husband.
Oh
wait, that last one is Sami again.
In Conclusion
The moral of
this story? The next time someone berates you for your mindless choice in
television programs, make a stretch beyond all credulity and tell them what life
lessons you are learning from said programs.Largest Collection of billabong boardshorts,
I'm sure
those Real Housewives have some cautionary tales to tell. The Price is Right is
probably making you a much more mindful consumer. And soap operas teach you to
cherish your children while they are young, because before you know it you turn
around and they are a teenager being played by a much older actor even though
you are still the same age.
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