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When the bills are piling up, that is the time to get creative and think of all of the options. Do you beg, borrow, or steal? I hope you don't steal. Wouldn't it be great if you could just create fake money to pay the bills? Our government creates money when it needs it, or borrows at will to increase a debt that seems to have no end. This is certainly not the way for a sound financial plan. The government does it because it can; you don't do it and you shouldn't. The question is not so much how to make counterfeit to pay the bills, but how do you pay the bills?
Some people spend much of their life figuring out how to make fake money. It stands to reason that if something is fake, it can't be worth much, and if it is not worth much, you can make a lot of it. But why would anyone want to make a lot of something that is worthless? The tried and true principals of wealth will always remain the same. Build a solid foundation, don't spend more than you make, and continue to save. It probably takes as much effort to figure out how to make fake money as it does to make real money, so why waste the time thinking about how to make make believe money?
Many people reading this will remember when Ralph Kramden found fake money on the bus, and brought it home and went wild paying bills and giving it away. That episode taught Ralph, Norton, and anyone watching it that fake money will only go so far, and eventually it will be the time of truth. Especially when times are tough, people wish they knew how to make fake money, but this is high quality fake money not reality. It is reality though to think of creative ways to come up with money. Some options are to work a second job, sell personal items, or borrow the money. Many people have found the power of prayer and deep thought to be very helpful. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. James 5:16.
Instead of giving much thought on how to make imitation money, thinking about how to make real money will achieve much better results. We all know many people who have become rich by making real money, but besides Ralph Kramden, how many other people do we know who have made or found fake money? Many times we hear that someone is paper rich, meaning that they own assets that they can list on paper and have value. Those assets could be sold, and converted to cash. This is not the case with fake money. We may never figure out how to make fake money to pay the bills, but we could figure out how to make real money. No one likes to be in a position of not being able to pay the bills, but even worse is paying the bills with fake money. Hang in there, better times are ahead, and one day you will proudly tell your story about how you overcame adversity.
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