When you're hot, you're ... on SNL

When I bought a Honda Pilot, I saw Honda Pilots everywhere. Now that I'm seeking saving sages, Suze Orman is everwhere.

Saturday Night Live's Kristen Wiig did a solid impression of Suze over the weekend. I actually watched SNL live the very same day I was up at 7 a.m. and downtown by 8:30 a.m. to watch Pittsburgh's St. Patrick's Day parade. The nap, and NOT drinking my weight in Guinness, helped. Here are my two favorite lines:

1. If you don't hold on to the money you have now,

life is going to pull your pants down
and punch you in the money bags.

2. Sounds good so far but I think I'm about to smell

a big, financial garlic burp.

Check out the clip:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4r4mf_snl-suze-orman-show_fun

I'm not one of Suze's soldiers yet but I am up to chapter 4 in her book, Women and Money. The first few chapters are pretty basic and honestly, tempting to skip. She explains that in order to save, you need to know what and who you're saving for. It's the typical self-help crap about taking yourself seriously and articulating your goals. She also encourages you to get to know your finances, even if you have a man around to do that now, you never know when you're the one left holding the money bags. Or getting kicked in them.

I've resisted skipping ahead to chapter 6, titled the Save Yourself Plan, thus far. So what the heck? I wrote down a few goals on a Post-It note. It's stuck somewhere in chapter 3. I don't feel like the goals are attainable yet with $600 but my economic stimulus has to start somewhere.

Also related to Suze, I got a package in the mail from TD Ameritrade today, congratulating me on opening my Save Yourself Account. I did this on Suze's advice. I received a nice little booklet that reviews everything I learned on the TD Ameritrade website when I signed up last week for the account to extend my economic stimulus into 2009. You still have time to sign up for the account that gives you $100 at the end of March 2009. Deadline is 3/31/08. Sphere: Related Content