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Don’t Buy Stuff You Can’t Afford

Written by Nickel - 4 Comments
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Here’s some simple financial advice from SNL:

Thanks to @StephTheBlogger from Graduated Learning for the tip!

Published on March 22nd, 2009 - 4 Comments
Filed under: Humor, Saving & Investing

About the author: Nickel is the founder and editor-in-chief of this site. He's a thirty-something family man who has been writing about personal finance since 2005, and guess what? He's on Twitter!

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4 Responses to “Don’t Buy Stuff You Can’t Afford”

  1. 1
    J. Money Says:

    why can’t we just *listen* to this, ya know? so simple, yet so hard for us to do….perhaps SNL will be the new Suze Orman ;)

  2. 2
    JB Says:

    Hahah this is great. It seems so simple but those with super sized lives who could never afford the stuff they bought probably wish they realized it earlier. Hopefully they do now.

  3. 3
    Danielle Says:

    Funny!

    They didn’t cover… what if there is something you REALLY NEED… like food.

    In which case the best advice would be what… buy the cheapest you can get?

  4. 4
    S Says:

    Love this so much!

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