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Chapter 2 – What Your Money is Trying to Tell You

TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 – I Got Hit in the Head With a Baseball and I Saw it Coming Chapter 2 – What Your Money is Trying to Tell You Chapter 3 – Take a Lap on the Gerbil Wheel of Debt Chapter 4 – Why Money Doesn’t Make You Happy Chapter 5 – [...]

Is QVC Evil?

QVC, which stands for Quality, Value and Convenience is headquartered out of little old West Chester, Pennsylvania. We all recognize the name QVC and it is probably the granddaddy of all home shopping channels. There are others, many others. I don’t want to pick on QVC in particular but they do exemplify the point I’d [...]

I Have a Shopping Addiction and Feel Like an Idiot for Being So Irresponsible. – Gloria

“Dear Steve, Age 55 / divorced 14yrs with employer (job security ’8′ on scale of 1–10) 55k in 401k (currently not contributing due to debt/no other savings) Upside-down on home mortgage (recently approved for a loan modification – 30yr fixed 4%) 10k in credit card debt (pay $250 mth in payments) 3yrs left on auto [...]

Is Your Lover an Oniomaniac and Likes to Perform Oniomania With You in Public?

I think most of us are aware of the normal sexual dysfunctions like Nymphomania, the “Sex Buddy” Syndrome, Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome and now we have condition that you need to watch out for, oniomania. By now I’ve got your attention but I’ll have to let you down easy, oniomania isn’t a sexual dysfunction, it’s [...]

Shopaholic Dies and Goes Missing Under Piles of Her Stuff

From England we learn that Joan Cunnane passed away in here house, so full of stuff that she bought to make herself feel better, that searchers and police could not find her body in her house for hours. Joan Cunnane was discovered at her home in Stockport, Greater Manchester after a lengthy search. Officers say [...]