quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a rolling new york times thread

also plz note that this woman is creating a company to help ordinary people w/ their personal finance problems

"Well, looking at your expense records, I see that you spend roughly $60 a day on food and coffee. Now, I would suggest that you make some food for yourself at home, or maybe even bring a lunch to work, but I know as a financial planner that that is an unreasonable request, as one can only sustain such a life for a maximum of one day, assuming a co-worker has brought some crackers to the office."

are there people who really take taxis to work every day

are there people who admit they're a 20 minute walk from work who take a taxi every day

you guys,

people are giving this woman's company millions of dollars

to teach people about personal finance

hey max, i hope you're reading, and i hope you eviscerate this woman on gawker 2nite

PLEASE

von Tobel = vom Teufel = of the devil.

Jordan S you are on fire

maura posted something about it on the awl yesterday

yesterday I had some time to spare and I poured myself a bowl of cereal, adding banana slices on top. Not so bad.

"however i discovered this meal is much improved by adding milk"

By the way is "Holder's House" coffee made up? I have never heard of it and Google returns nothing. She mentions it twice.

Please Sarges, don't hurt 'em

Ha, the first results from a search for "Holder's House coffee" are from other websites mocking this ridiculous woman.

I have a monthly transit pass, eat breakfast and dinner at home, keep a box of granola bars in my desk drawer, and have been packing my lunch lately. I think I am pretty qualified to start my own financial management advice company and write articles about how awesome I am for not spending money. I even have a box of penne pasta in the kitchen cabinet!

save money by making up new foods in your imagination and eating those instead of expensive "real" food

Penne pasta with unicorn sauce for dinner tonight!

jenny I am a venture capitalist, would like $4.5 million dollars? I was going to use it to order take-out tonight, but your idea sounds revolutionary.

i think i spend $0/day about 4-5 days a week, but i hate vodka sauce

are there people who really take taxis to work every day

uh

I'm really lazy and hate the transfer from my neighborhood to work plus it's faster and still way cheaper than owning a car in the city ok ok ok I'm an asshole

7 miles though not 20 minutes

maura was a bit too nice

has there been anything public about why the piece is no longer on the huff?

presumably she learned about how many people were mocking her?

or possibly the NYC government took down her money saving secrets to prevent the local economy from collapsing

it makes sense that people have invested $4.5 million dollars in her company -- much like the bank bailouts, it always makes sense to give significant amounts of money to people to do things that they are absolutely the worst at -- sound strategy

the link to the article on her twitter now redirects to "FlickmationLite", a 12 frame flickbook iphone app.

man I should have invested my $4.5 million in that instead

wish that article was still up :(

slocks http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:N-4ANWWTN8kJ:www.huffingtonpost.com/alexa-von-tobel/financial-challenge-go-a_b_566492.html+alexa+von+tobel+financial+challenge&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk

http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Lifestyle/20100506/10760480/Alexa-von-Tobel-How-Went-24-Hours.htm

biggest lol @ "i knew i had a coffee maker"

I kindly proposed to my three girlfriends that we have a "potluck" dinner at my apartment, where everyone brought a different dish.

Within minutes, I had donned my apron and found my inner Julia Child (Who knew I had one?), whipping up a delicious pasta dish at the stove

seriously, you are a horrible, horrible person

when you make food for yourself like twice a year you simply are not allowed to use the verb "whip up" to describe your cooking

dude you forgot the best part of that sentence: and singing along to my Billy Joel favorites.

that was the only thing that i liked about her!!

Forty minutes later, the deliveryman arrived with my pasta primavera and a Greek salad and I handed him $32.50, including tip. Pretty steep for a dinner for one, I thought. I returned to my kitchen counter, brown bag in hand, and it was then that I had a moment: I reviewed my spending for the day and I realized that I had spent well over $80 over the course of the day on menial expenses

Why is it $22.50 and $60, respectively, in the cached Huffpo original?

and singing along to my Billy Joel favorites.

missed opportunity to quote lyrics from "Allentown" and contemplate similarities between self and laid-off factory workers

nasa needs 2 build a fucking alexa von tobel-sized rocket 2 b launched in2 the sun

Why is it $22.50 and $60, respectively, in the cached Huffpo original?

― Sandwiches That You Will Like.(2002).XviD.torrent (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, May 13, 2010 11:13 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

inflation

putting "potluck" in quotes as if it's an utterly new or foreign concept is the worst thing in a whole page of really horrible stuff

I mean TECHNICALLY there's something k-classic about making a potluck/dish-to-pass item from only canned goods already found on your pantry shelves. Probably the most Amurrican thing she's ever done in her whole life.

But they usually involve either gelatin or French's Fried Onions.

but she sang along with billy joel!

No, pretty sure taking a cab to work every day instead of walking 20 minutes is the most American thing she's done.

so i was thinking about this as i was picking up some groceries right now and what actually kind of infuriates me the most is the concept that because you did not buy something that day it somehow cancels the fact that you bought it at some point? like congrats you stored a bunch of food in your house that you bought a while ago, wtg. your friend brought some wine--pretty sure she didn't whip that up herself. same reason buy nothing day makes me want to slay.

xp No way, that's for east coast namby-pambies. Amurricans own their own cars.

lol j0rdan i love you

i basically think that article was not for real

my friend pointed out that "holder's house blend" coffee doesn't seem to actually... exist