Sunday, March 19th, 2006

Sunac Food Market $12.61
Barnes & Noble $24.93

It's always a splurge to buy a new hardcoverbook, but in my research on reading materials, this, just like Not Buying It, comes up in my searches... Actually, when you go to Amazon you can buy them together as a sort of package deal. Now I'm kicking myself for not doing that in the first place, I could have saved a few... The book I bought is called Money, A Memoir, by another woman writer, Liz Perle.

The first thing you read before the table of contents is a quote:

From birth to eighteen, a girl needs good parents.
From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks.
From thirty-five to fifty-five, a good personality.
From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.
I'm saving my money.
-Sophie Tucker

I'd say that Sophie Tucker was a sassy woman, and a darn smart cookie of her time. Stylishly elegant as well, I do love this statement she makes, and how Liz Perle uses it within the preface of her book.

I'll give an update on this book as read it this week, I can already see that it will be insightful and honest, and it looks as if her research touches upon a lot of my true insterests of the psychology of spending, especially again, being a woman...

*Sidenote: I wore my new blue hat over to Doug's yesterday, he complimented it right away. I told him it wasn't the $64.00 hat that I had my heart set on, but instead I settled for the one that was only $4.70, he said he thinks this one, the one I bought, was much better looking and stylishly unique. I agree.