Friday Financial Follies: Fake Apple Store Edition!

The Friday Financial Follies are designed to summarize the important financial issues of the week.

•  Share the humor of those that are funny.
• Make fun of the stupid.
• Highlight those you need to be aware of if you want to be financially well-grounded or is it well-rounded???

Friday Financial Follies

This weeks news has been overwhelmed by the debt ceiling talk.  I’m kinda with mixed emotions about an agreement, cause my post on the debt ceiling has been getting great Google search traffic.  So Go Gridlock!

Maybe a few of you new guys will even stick around.  I’m hoping to catch Len Penzo and his million page views some time before 2020.

(and for those of you who noticed I pimped Len two weeks in a row, it’s on purpose.  I want him to put in a good word about me with one of those big time sites he writes for!)

Let’s get started!

 

Fake Apple Store

Imitation is an extreme form of flattery.  This is taking knockoffs to a whole new level.  A fake Apple store found in China. Even the employees didn’t know it wasn’t the real thing!  Maybe I’ll open one in my small town.  Maybe call it “Pears”so Steve doesn’t sue me.

75% Off Sale

75% off at XOXO... Sounds like a deal to me, but time is limited-sale ends July 31…

Things to Come?

In the-you think you got it bad department-How ’bout this Alabama county going bankrupt and the effects on it’s residents.  4 hours to get a car tag!

Credit Refusal Notice

If you get turned down for credit, you get the reason and your credit score starting this week.  Maybe….(there are many exceptions, AKA loopholes, what a surprise!)

Pimp Yo Ride?

Looking for a place to put some cash?  Want something “truly unique?”  How bout a 1926 Rolls Royce with a mounted machine gun, cannon, spotting scopes.  Perfect for your next tiger hunt!  Who says pimp your ride is a new phenomenon?  This was one Indian Raj ahead of his time.

 Green Pups?

Need something new for your St Patty’s celebration next year?  How bout a dog that glows green that cost $3 million to “design?”   Tegon, a genetically modified beagle, is the product of research in Seoul, South Korea in an attempt to find cures for human cancers.  Give the dog doxycycline and the little guy glows green under florescent light.  Party animal.

 Spilled Milk?

Crying over spilled Shiraz may be a new saying after a forklift didn’t lift.  A million bucks worth of wine spilled on the warehouse floor…  Bad day at the office for this forklift operator.   Can you say OOPS at $185/bottle. Love the wines’ name, Mollydooker……The pallet was a third of the wines’ production this year.  Maybe the price will go higher now that there is a shortage.  Can you say publicity stunt? (naaah I’m not cynical!)

Green Cleaning!

Speaking of wine stains, dry cleaning is becoming Green as their number one cleaning chemical is being banned.  Us frugal folks  avoid “dry cleaning only” labels like the plague anyway!

One of Ten

One of ten post offices may close.  Your mail may only be delivered 5 days a week.  Will anyone notice???

 

Personal Finance Reads!

Warning: Don’t be Dumb!

Don’t get caught in email scams.  I almost hate to post these warnings.  If you are dumb enough to think someone is going to GIVE you a million, you may deserve an empty bank account.  But for those that need a reminder, go read the damn post at Life and My Finances.

School Bells ring again!

Donna Freedman warns us it’s back to school time.  With no kids at home, that sneaks up on me every summer now.  Didn’t we just have Christmas?

Try it on first!

Common sense approach to living the life you dream of.  Give a try first.  See how it works for you. Great advice from Melissa at Free From Broke.

Crystal stirs the pot!

Who would have thought using a dryer would be controversial? Crystal knows how to stir em up!

Giving

Thought provoking, giving dissected @ Faithful With A Few.

College worth it?

Was your college degree a good value?  Miranda at Smart on Money  adds up the data.  Student loan debt surpassing credit card debt got my attention!

So ends another week of Financial Falderal. You heard it here first, and thank you it’s  Finally Friday.  Any business plan suggestion for Pears, let me know!  Thanks for reading!

{photo credit: }{enry c.c.}

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