What Can’t Money Buy?

Jennifer Derrick at SavingAdvice.com recently wrote about Ten Things Money Can’t Buy.  Here’s her list.  Read her blog post for the entire article:

1. Lost time
2. Happiness
3. Happy, well-adjusted kids
4. Love
5. Acceptance
6. Health
7. Success
8. Talent
9. Class/Manners
10. Peace

Here’s what I say:  Money can’t buy common sense.   Consider those lottery winners.  

They surely found Happiness in not having to worry about money anymore and finally being able to pursue their passion. They surely found the Time to spend with family and friends. They finally got the respect they deserved and Acceptance from other people.  They are able to take care of their Health and afford the best care if needed.  And who needs Talent when you can pay talented people to do whatever it is you want?  Money helped the Pretty Woman in learning Class/Manners.  If one needs Peace, they go on their nice yacht to get away from everyone.

But since money can’t buy common sense, a majority of those lottery winners end up bankrupt within two to five years.

What do you think?

For Real: Couple Keeps Winning the Lottery!

A Wisconsin couple each won $350,000 twice, for last Saturday’s lottery drawing.  All four tickets were purchased at different locations, but used the same numbers, and for the same drawing.  The total winnings amount to $1.4 million.  How did they do it?

Verlyn Adamson, the husband, is an accountant with a love for big math puzzles.  He claims that he has found the formula for picking the winning lottery numbers.  Mr. Adamson is said to be exploring a patent protection on his lottery pick equation.

Read the WNBC Article

A Class on How To Snare a Billionaire

I came across an article from UK’s The Sun titled “How To Snare a Billionaire”.  It was incredulously preposterous.  The GIF below is a screen capture of the article’s sidebar.

Moscow has a popular seduction school that teaches women in their 20′s and 30′s on how to get a man, preferably a rich one.  Wear a short skirt and bend over a lot seems to be the main advice.  I guess Elle from Legally Blonde wasn’t far off with her “bend and snap” routine! 

The students are graded on their perfume, manicure, and hair.  They role play.  They strip down to their bras and thongs and sashay all over.  They practice lapdancing to Shakira’s music. 

Shockingly, majority of the women taking this course are beautiful, educated and hold decent jobs.  What, I wonder, could drive such women to give up a weekend and pay good money to attend such a school?  It wouldn’t be poverty.  Greed perhaps?  The desire for luxury and maybe fame?  Maybe bragging rights for snaring a rich one?  It is hard to say.

I suggest the next class they take is a crash course on Law, preferably pertaining to prenups, divorce, alimony and, just in case, child custody.

Read the Sun Article here. | digg story