My Gen X Playlist: Celebrity Skin – Hole

9 Steps to Financial Freedom by Suze Orman

The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey

The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach

I wish they would begin teaching personal finance in high school. I really needed to learn this life lesson earlier on. Reading these books helped me get out of credit card and student loan debt and paved a path for me to save and invest. Sometimes you need to fall in a deep hole and dig yourself out before a valuable lesson really sinks in. These books gave me the helping hand that I needed and the means to see daylight. Do I still have a ways to go? Sure. Do I have all the answers? Certainly not. But I now have a clear pathway instead of walking aimlessly down a winding road.

Many of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn’t happened first.

– Suze Orman

If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.

– Dave Ramsey

Life is not easy. But that’s not the only truth that matters in this context. It also happens to be true that it takes just as much effort to have a “bad life,” in which you don’t get what you want, as it does to have a “good life,” where you do. So given the choice, why not go for the good life?

– David Bach

If you find yourself in a hole like I was, I recommend picking up these books. You probably can check them out at the library. It helps to start somewhere. Believe me, once you get out of that hole, you’ll never go back in.

I never was a big Hole fan. Rather, maybe I wasn’t a Courtney Love fan. Either way, she never found her way into my CD collection. I did like Celebrity Skin, though. Not a bad song. Good enough to make the playlist.

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Oh, make me over
I'm all I wanna be
A walking study
In demonology

Hey, so glad you could make it
Yeah, now you've really made it
Hey, so glad you could make it now

Oh, look at my face
My name is "Might-Have-Been"
My name is "Never Was"
My name's forgotten

Hey, so glad you could make it
Yeah, now you've really made it
Hey, there's only us left now

When I wake up in my makeup
It's too early for that dress
Wilted and faded somewhere in Hollywood
I'm glad I came here with your pound of flesh
No second billing 'cause you're a star now
Oh, Cinderella, they aren't sluts like you
Beautiful garbage, beautiful dresses
Can you stand up or will you just fall down?

You better watch out
Oh, what you wish for
It better be worth it
So much to die for

Hey, so glad you could make it
Yeah, now you've really made it
Hey, there's only us left now

When I wake up in my makeup
Have you ever felt so used up as this?
It's all so sugarless, hooker, waitress
Model, actress, oh, just go nameless
Honeysuckle, she's full of poison
She obliterated everything she kissed
Now she's fading somewhere in Hollywood
I'm glad I came here with your pound of flesh

You want a part of me?
Well, I'm not selling cheap
No, I'm not selling cheap