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Old 06-07-2006, 09:42 AM
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MLM's drive me nuts. My wife comes home one day telling me about a coworker who is going to come over and talk about this company thing they joined. Googled the name found lots of MLM stuff on them. So before they came I was prepared. Ran through the guilt trip stuff. "Don't you want to be able to have [insert wife's name here] stay home with the kids". (Wife was pregers with the first, went part time afterwards.) Once you hear the words "Financial Freedom", my ears shut down. They also shut down when I am watching the Simpsons and DW is trying to have a conversation with me, but I regress. So I go to the seminar, why I do not know. Interested actually. Interesting group of people. Anyway at about 10:30 or 11 pm I say, you know I got to run. They called later and I told them we weren't interested. This couple made less that we did, I know that. They had kids, we were having them. I tried to figure how much they spent on seminars, books, and other stuff. Plus the time, they are away from their kids for hours at the seminars. If they took that money, which they obviously can live without, and put that in a savings account or IRA or something, they would have been better off. The lady still works with the wife, she hasn't asked how it's going. Last she heard they had cut back on the seminars. Thankfully. The only people who made any money are the top people giving seminars and selling tapes/books. That's it.
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