Everybody Loves Your Money

I’ll tell you.  My luck has been GREAT lately.  First I managed to take all my investments out of the market before it crashed and sent it to Nigeria in order to receive a huge cash payout.  (still pending) and now it turns out my email address has been selected for a 1 million Euro prize.  That’s a lot of US dollars!!!  Here’s the note:

Confirmation Email Lucky No 4-13-23-35-43-1/3
Dear Winner
Following official publication results of the Email electronic on line
Sweepstakes organized by the Eurolottery corporation, the Slide circular
award and in conjunction with the foundation for the promotion of software
products,(F.P.S.), held on the 30th of September 2008, in Bruselles Belgium,
wherein your electrononic email address emerged as one of the online winning
emails in the 1st category and therefore attracted a cash award of
1,000.000.00 Euro (One Million Euro only),We write to officially notify you
of this award and to advise you to contact the processing office immediately
upon receipt of this message for more information concerning the
verification processing and eventual payment of the above prize to you.
CONTACT: Mr Evrard Pauwels.
TEL 0032-488-919.013 or 01132-488-919.013
Reply to Email: euromillionagency@Luckymail.com
it is important to note you that your award information was released today
with the following particulars attached to it.
(I)Reference No:11-27-24-5-12
(II)Batch No: BNKL4402211451
(III)Serial No:L541221145200
(IV)Ticket No:3-8-23-19-29-22
(V)Lucky No: 4-13-19-23-38-2/3
(VI)Your Full Name & Telephone Number
Remember, all winning must be claimed not later than 31st of October 2008
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Karen M Hendrick
Promotions Coordinator
CONTACT: Mr Evrard Pauwels.
TEL 0032-499-919.013 or 01132-499-919.013
Reply to E-mail: euromillincy@Luckymail.com

At this rate, retirement may be a lot closer than I first thought.  Hopefully they aren’t going to need me to send any cash since I’m pretty much tapped out while I’m waiting for my big payout from Nigeria.

I was watching a show called "Airline" recently and watched as two passengers were refused entrance on to their flight.  They had been drinking too much and were somewhat drunk and belligerent.  The younger of the two people started saying he wanted his money back and was directed to the ticket counter to receive it.  On the way, he made all kinds of drunken comments as the cameras followed.  At one point, he saw a lady in a wheelchair and decided he wanted to make himself look good so he said, "You need some money?"  He then proceeded to walk up to her, pull out a bunch of bills and hand her at least a hundred dollars.  By the way that he was gyrating around, you could tell he felt pretty important.  In his mind he figured giving away some of his money on TV would make him look wealthy.  I mean, not just anyone can go around handing out money, especially when you work at a low wage job like he most certainly did.  (By the way he was acting and presenting himself, he wasn’t running a boardroom, that’s for sure)

It struck me that this is one of the problems with some people.  They are so convinced that it’s all about image that they will go to any lengths to try to pretend to be something that they are not.  They spend too much money on frivolous items like new expensive cars, trips all over the world, designer clothes.  You name it.  They don’t do the quick math in their head that should tell them that they just bought something that will take 16 hours of work to pay for.  If they are charging what they are buying, even less thought has to go in to the purchase.

I have to wonder if the current financial crisis will cause people to start considering what the value of a dollar is.  As the crisis gets worse it’s going to be clear that cash is king.  The more cash you have saved, the more likely it is that you’ll be able to take advantage of some of the huge bargains that will be coming.  From an investment standpoint stocks are clearly on sale.  In the consumer market companies are going to be offering lower prices and better terms for buying just about anything.