Candice Bergen, Marlo Thomas and their wowOwow friends dish on whether or not to lend expensive things
Filed under: Borrowing, Wealth, Celebs & Money
The well known women at wowOwow.com are stopping by WalletPop on a frequent basis to answer your spending and personal finance questions. This week we asked them: How generous are you with your own possessions when it comes to your family? What about your friends? Would you lend a piece of jewelry? A car? A house? Where are your limits?
You can find their full responses on wowowow.com
Candice Bergen: Of course I lend everything and my friends lend back. Especially in the old days. Ali MacGraw lent me a strapless Halston to wear to the Golden Globes in the days before we all had stylists and when I could still fit into her stuff ... I do not lend money ...
Marlo Thomas: I loan anything to my family and pals, provided they take care of it. But if they mess it up-in the words of George W, "If you fool me once shame on you. If you fool me ...you can't uh ...get ...uh.. fooled again...er..."
Cynthia McFadden: I have loaned cars, houses, jewelry and clothes with pleasure. The results have always been happy. I have learned not to loan money, give it, or don't do it.Judith Martin: Anything, as long as no one tries to sit at my desk. I even resent it when a member of the family is sitting there ...
Joan Ganz Cooney: Where family is concerned I have no rules and lend whatever is needed; with friends and employees I have many times lent money.
Mary Wells: I am not asked for anything except money or the use of a house. There has been only one thing I have resented - but it wasn't lending, it was being taken over. I had a little port at my house in France ... Every morning I would put down my blue and white beach towels. Within an hour strangers would be on them oiling themselves. I paid a hefty French tax for that little piece of cement ...
wowOwow.com is a website aimed at influential women over 40, much like its distinguished founders and contributors, which include Marlo Thomas, Lesley Stahl, Candice Bergen, Liz Smith, Joni Evans, Mary Wells and Whoopi Goldberg.
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7-29-2009 @ 9:45AM
syrus said...
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7-29-2009 @ 2:22PM
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7-29-2009 @ 5:41PM
susan said...
Absolutely right about the money.. You can lend it but must consider it lost money, never to be returned.. This way when you never get it back you won't be mad!!! If it is returned then that truly is a friend to keep because they thought of you and your generousity and fulfilled their promise to return...Not many people are like that!!
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7-29-2009 @ 6:43PM
sKI said...
Candice my dear, although we have never met after all these years, and probably never will. You are still my #1, or #2,!!!!
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7-29-2009 @ 7:46PM
neveraborrowerorlenderbe said...
"Neveraborroworlenderbe!" I remember my grandmother telling me that when I was about 12. And repeating it to myself now...As I'm waiting for the return of everything mentioned by Candace, Marla, Cynthia... and more! Turns out I'm no "borrower", but "lender" would not even begin to describe the generosity...one does not even have to be my "size!" Just know the approximate location of my "heartstrings". Would I have it any other way? No way. My grandmother was also fond of saying, "You can't take it with you." They are right about money. If lent at all, it had better be with the thought, "it's a gift, just in case!" But hey, what do I know?!
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9-26-2009 @ 7:22AM
grace becker said...
I try to follow in my Mom and Dad's example "I saved and when I felt the kids really needed my help, I gave not loaned to each.
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