REALLY??? YOU DON’T KNOW????
We ALL have heard someone say “I don’t now where my money goes.” We may have said it ourselves. Well next time you hear someone say that, follow these simple steps:
1)Hit them on the head with a frying pan.
2)Remove the joint, liquor bottle, syringe from their hand.
3)Check them into a mental hospital.
When I was starting out trying to be an actor after school was finished, New York was a disaster area, as the $20 in my pocket would last about 2 blocks….subways, food, etc etc etc, so I never left the apartment (which my roommate and I could barely afford anyway). Los Angeles was like a dream world, you could walk around (yes, I walked, rare for LA), for DAYS with a $20 bill in your pocket, so at least I got to be outside, and ramen noodles were oh so tasty.
The thing is, I was always ACUTELY aware of how much money I had, or didn’t have, not only in my pocket but in my bank account…..still am, to this very day, can tell you pretty close to the nearest dollar (in those days it was to the nearest 25 cents)…
If you have ever read Andy Warhol’s Diaries (a fascinating read by the way), he takes it to a level of insanity…”took cab to 14th Street——$1.75”. As crazy as it all seems when you are reading it, we should not forget, he died with an estate of FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS.
And here’s the thing to never forget——$10 pays for the exact same amount of stuff for me as it does for Michael Bloomberg or Bill Gates. A $10 bill is the same $10 bill all across the country……please please, I beg of you….be aware of your money, that alone will somehow give it value and also an awareness of saving it that we have seen many forget about and suffer because of it. How dare one of my childhood heroes, New York Met Lenny Dykstra, blow through a fortune estimated at THIRTY EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS. How dare he end up living in his car. It’s baffling to me, and it should be to you as well.
Have a great weekend, don’t spend like drunk sailors on leave, and if you ARE a drunk sailor on leave, skip that last-call drink (it’s never a good one, believe me, I have ordered it 1000 times too many), and bring the money home to your family instead……
WG
