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When you calculate all that you don’t spend, you might even come out ahead.

While a sense of style cannot be taught, one can learn the basic principles to building a solid wardrobe that can take you from mailroom assistant to millionaire in training.

Are your teeth less than perfect? Either save up for veneers or have cosmetic bonding applied that can do everything from whitening to perfecting the shape of your smile.

One’s eccentricities should come naturally, for anything artificially cultivated has the cheap stench of affectation, but in case you require some inspiration, herewith are some basic suggestions to begin curating your new identity.

The point is to not let the momentary lack of funds affect your feelings of vast self worth.

Your choice of living location is probably the most important decision you can make, along with selecting the right plastic surgeon and hair color.

You know who are the truly privileged?  It’s not the men pulling down seven-figure salaries, it’s their wives who don’t work yet enjoy all the indulgences of wealth like Chardonnay for breakfast, Botox for lunch and late afternoon Pilates. 

A barometer I live by is, “Am I being treated as well as Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen would be if they were in this situation?”  If the answer is no, then I throw a fit until I am.

The problem with the tourist for me, besides being an aesthetic one, is a moral one.