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(Well, box, I can send you two out of three!)

I love Suze!

Awesome. I love Suze too.

I know she's right, I know she's helpful and everything, but I just can't abide reading her. . .I get that jello fog brain thing happening and get overwhelmed when thinking about money management. I'm pretty sure this isn't just a woman thing, although it's more depressing with the longer life expectancy and the lower lifetime earnings, and all that to worry about.

I have good credit, I own a home, I have a job and retirement accounts, my husband has a job, but I hear the words Suze Orman and feel doomed to eating cat food as an old lady, which I probably am, should I live so long.

*sobs*

I have good credit, I own a home, I have a job and retirement accounts, my husband has a job, but I hear the words Suze Orman and feel doomed to eating cat food as an old lady, which I probably am, should I live so long.

It's not just a woman thing. At all. This describes me to a T, except for the old lady part.

Suze Orman was actually the first (and, now that I think about it, the only) money management advice that I could bring myself to read. I don't think I follow all of it, but she's always seemed very compassionate and encouraging, no matter what one's financial circumstances.

Did anyone else see that Oprah where she had the people on who were like, "Help! We're $20K in debt!" and Suze Orman was all like, "Um, no...you're like $500K in debt! And you don't have health insurance! You need to sell your fancy house and get a job at Starbucks!"

I don't know why I watched it, as I don't much like the Oprah, but WOW did seeing how f-ed up those people were make me feel better about myself.

That said, I don't normally like Suze Orman. But that's because I review a lot of self-helpy, money management-type books and have learned to be wary of "gurus." The minute someone seems to be working on "branding" themselves, I tune right the hell out--and Orman is a powerful brand.

Did anyone else see that Oprah where she had the people on who were like, "Help! We're $20K in debt!" and Suze Orman was all like, "Um, no...you're like $500K in debt! And you don't have health insurance! You need to sell your fancy house and get a job at Starbucks!"

I remember reading about that one! The personal finance blogs went mad over those people.

aargh! we'll just open a bunny commune in a desert somewhere cheap, like outer Mongolia. Just imagine, fermented Yak's milk heaven in our twilight years!

It was AWFUL. The wife kept hiding how much they owed by paying off one credit card with another. And she was spending money on ridiculous things like taking all her daughter's friends to Vegas or hiring a snow machine so they could have snow in CA. I seriously clutched my stomach the whole time I watched. It gave me an ulcer just thinking about being in that much debt.

I wonder if they took any of her advice.

Holy crap. What an idiot.

Wait, so does that mean that there's a flaw in the use-one-credit-card-to-pay-off-the-other plan? I knew it sounded too good to be true.

That's the last time I listen to Robert Kiyosaki.

I can't get past the crazy eyes with her. I dated women with eyes like that, and the crazy, oh the crazy.

Sweet! I do like her book for the Young, Fabulous and Broke.