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Millionaire Love

The Story of Heiress Huguette Clark

March 8, 2012

(Another interesting bio by my accountant friend, Barbara, who last shared with us the story of bank robber Willie Sutton. Just goes to show that money can’t buy us love!!) Heiress Huguette Clark, who was born in 1906 and died last May at 104, was America’s last living link to the 1890s “Gilded Age.” Her [...]

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Why A Million Dollars Should Be Laughed At

February 9, 2012
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(Guest Post by Corey) If you know anything about Budgets are Sexy, you know that J Money is well on his way toward a million dollars. Not only does he have 83 people in his Million Dollar Club, but he also gives regular updates on his net worth. If either of these two things doesn’t [...]

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I’m Rich Cuz I Have a Lot of Credit Cards?

November 15, 2011
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Hahahhahaa…. that’s what I was just told at Auto Zone today!  I went in to pick up some WD-40 (the ol’ Caddy is getting a little squeaky in it’s old age) and the cashier told me “it must be nice” when I whipped out my money clip to pay. “Huh?  What must be nice?” I [...]

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Would You Rather… Rich 100 years ago, or Avg. now?

June 3, 2011

OMG this is a good one :) Big props to NPR and Brad from Time’s MoneyLand for circulating this around – very clever!  I was starting to run out of some good ones over the years, haha…. so here we go – a new Would You Rather! Courtesy of MoneyLand: Would you rather: A. Live [...]

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A Million Dollars is a Million Dollars (Is a Million Dollars)

April 1, 2011

Welcome to Friday! We had a pretty intense week of crazy freakin’ stories here at Budgets Are Sexy, so today I refuse to get into anything deep ;)  In fact, let’s start out with a joke! (You can find more of them here too, btw, there were some pretty good ones) A tour guide was [...]

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Would You Rather… Millions vs. Teleporting

February 4, 2011

Hahaha… oh man, it’s been WAY too long since our last Would You Rather… remember the “1 year of your life vs. $100,000” one?  I miss these crazy things :)  And also, I’m way too tired to write an actual post today, haha…my brain is so fried right now. In fact, I had to use [...]

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Are Rich People Hotter Than the Rest?

December 22, 2010

The second I heard “Rich chicks are always hotter than poor chicks” on Hot 99.5 this morning I was sold. And I knew I had to keep the discussion alive ;) The talk of money & women combined is enough to stop any A.D.H.D man in his tracks! But before you jump to conclusions as [...]

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Wealthy People vs Poor People

November 19, 2010

Happy Friday y’all! Fellow sexy budgets reader, Andy Hausmann, emailed me this gem last night and thought it was too good to pass up.  Kinda a lot to take in, but if you really think about these one by one they def. make sense! T. Harv Eker, author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering [...]

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I Don’t Dress Like a Bum, Mom.

October 5, 2010

Anytime I tell people I’m a personal finance blogger, they get this look of shock on their face. Not because they don’t know what blogging is (which as many of you know is probably a good 75% of people out there), but because I don’t dress all financial-like. In fact, as my mother likes to [...]

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Do You Still Want to Live in a Mansion?

September 14, 2010

[Back in February I wrote about how our house cost us $24,000 in mortgage interest & taxes alone last year.  It was pretty eye-opening! But even more so were the comments of this anonymous guy telling me what it's like to live in a mansion. I wanted to share it with you because a) it [...]

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