You may act as if money doesn’t matter to you all you like, but we aren’t buying it. Study after study tells us that money can’t buy happiness. Sure, we know that. Money buys you stress, whether you have it or not. If you don’t have it, you stress about getting it, or getting more. If you have money, you stress about hanging onto it. It’s all relative. If you don’t have  rent money, getting just enough will make you happy for a short time (til next month). If you are getting along OK, you compare yourself to the next person. Someone once said, “A truly happy man is one who makes $100 more than his wife’s sister’s husband.” And people who have a lot of money find it a precious commodity, too... whether it makes them happy or not, they want more and they don’t want to lose any. Whatever your situation, you can’t get away from dealing with money in one way or another.



The Money Song  -Monty Python

Funny Money: Strange currencies of the world.

Money Pubs: Home of the World’s Most Expensive Wallpaper. What’s amazing is that there are several places where the walls are lined with money. 

25 money confessions, with photo illustrations. Some may hit home.

This article from MSNBC says that a guy should pay for the first date if he wants a second date. The response from Fark was mostly if a guy pays for the date, the woman should put out. My experience is that men don't want to pay for a first date, and they don't care about a second date. But that's just me.

The Savin’ Up for Therapy Bank is available online. (Thanks, Jan!)

41 Money Facts That Will Blow You Away. They didn’t really blow me away; most make plenty of sense if you have been paying attention.

Kiplinger had launched a new site to teach you the basics of money.

50 Myths About Money.

POETRY

(via Big Shot Bob in Texas)
Money, the long green,
cash, stash, rhino, jack
or just plain dough.

Chock it up, fork it over,
shell it out. Watch it
burn holes through pockets.

To be made of it! To have it
to burn! Greenbacks, double eagles,
megabucks and Ginnie Maes.

Money breeds money.
Gathering interest, compounding daily.
Always in circulation.

Money. You don't know where it's been,
but you put it where your mouth is.
And it talks.

THE FORTUNE

A young man asked an old rich man how he made his money.

The old guy fingered his worsted wool vest and said, "Well, son, it was 1932. The depth of the Great Depression. I was down to my last nickel.

"I invested that nickel in an apple. I spent the entire day polishing the apple and, at the end of the day, I sold the apple for ten cents.

"The next morning, I invested those ten cents in two apples. I spent the entire day polishing them and sold them at 5:00 pm for 20 cents. I continued this system for a month, by the end of which I'd accumulated a fortune of $1.37."

"And that's how you built an empire?" the boy asked.

"Heavens, no!" the man replied. "Then my wife's father died and left us two million dollars."

THE FUNERAL

An old man was on his death bed, and wanted to be buried with his money. He called his priest, his doctor and his lawyer to his bedside. "Here's $30,000 cash to be held by each of you. I trust you to put this in my coffin when I die so I can take all my money with me."

At the funeral, each man put an envelope in the coffin. Riding away in a limousine, the priest suddenly broke into tears and confessed, "I only put $20,000 into the envelope because I needed $10,000 to repair the roof of the church."

"Well, since we're confiding in each other," said the doctor, "I only put $10,000 in the envelope because we needed a new X-ray machine for the pediatrics ward at the hospital which cost $20,000."

The lawyer was aghast. "I'm ashamed of both of you," he exclaimed. "I want it known that when I put my envelope in that coffin, I enclosed a check for the full $30,000."

Previously at Miss Cellania: Mars and Venus: Men and Money

Thought for today: A fool and his money can throw one hell of a party.

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