Categories: Uncategorized

The Best Financial Advice: "Don’t Buy Stuff You Cannot Afford"

Via Consumerist, here’s a Saturday Night Live skit that a lot of people really need to watch:


Snl_dontbuystuff
Uploaded by shosterman

Joey deVilla

View Comments

  • I've had the bank try to sell me some kind of insurance that would protect me from not being able to pay off my credit card if I suddenly lost income. I explained to them that I only use my credit card to buy stuff online, and that the money is always in my bank account - I just need the credit card to be able to pay for stuff on the internet. They asked "but what if suddenly you had no more money in your bank account?" and I answered that I would obviously not be buying stuff online if I had no money to pay for it. They didn't understand... I just hung up the phone.

Recent Posts

Sunday picdump for November 17, 2024

Here’s a collection of interesting memes, pictures, an cartoons floating around the internet that I…

19 hours ago

U.S. post-election post #7: Don’t worry, it’ll trickle down…

Tap to see the source. This is yesterday’s daily New Yorker cartoon, created by Brendan…

6 days ago

U.S. post-election post #6: One key election is still undecided…

C’mon, let it not be Asians this time. Last time was pretty bad. Here’s the…

7 days ago

U.S. post-election post #5: Come bend the arc with me!

Jon Stewart’s right, and we’ve been here before. Where we are now, I’ve been before…

7 days ago

Veteran’s Day, Remembrance Day, and “In Flanders Fields”

Poppies thrive in overturned soil, which is why they bloom in battlefields. I’m in the…

7 days ago

U.S. post-election post #4: We have to be better

In times of high dudgeon, there’s a tendency to throw integrity out the window. One…

1 week ago