{"id":392911,"date":"2010-03-05T12:51:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lazymanandmoney.com\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2010-03-05T12:51:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:51:09","slug":"build-your-financial-home-brick-by-boring-brick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/392911","title":{"rendered":"Build Your Financial Home Brick By Boring Brick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I’ve been rocking out to a new song by the band Paramore<\/a>. If you haven’t heard of them, well they’d probably say that ignorance is your new best friend<\/a>. In fact, I’ve been rocking to them so much lately that lead singer Hayley Williams has replaced Taylor Swift in the category of Inappropriately Young Female Singer that Lazy Man is Crushing On. Getting back to the subject, the song that really got my attention is Brick by Boring Brick. If they given a vote I’d say it is the best song in at least 3 years, maybe 5. To my surprise, when I looked into the lyrics a little deeper a hidden financial lesson came to the surface.<\/p>\n

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Did you catch it? Some of the lyrics are little hard to catch. Here are a few that I popped out when I first heard the song:<\/p>\n

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\n“She lives in the fairy tale somewhere too far for us to find”
\n“Keep your feet on the ground when your head’s in the clouds”
\n“Her prince finally came to save her and the rest you can figure out but it was a trick and the clock struck 12”
\n“Well make sure to build your home brick by boring brick or the wolf’s gonna blow it down”
\n“Ba da ba ba da da ba da…”\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What kind of financial lessons can we take away from this? As Hayley Williams says<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\n“‘Stop living in a fake fairytale… like, WAKE UP!’ When thinking how I could really get that across in the song I decided I’d use a house. Someone’s safe place, even in a fairy tale\u2026 you can’t forge a refuge out of magic & fairy dust. You gotta build it just as real and as solid as a stupid old brick.”\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So financially speaking, give up the lottery tickets and pour some money into your 401k. Don’t pay for real estate seminars or get rich quick schemes and max out that Roth IRA. Don’t buy MonaVie<\/a> or sell MonaVie<\/a> and build up that emergency fund. When the wolf comes to blow your financial house down, you’ll be glad you built it brick by boring, stupid old brick.<\/p>\n

Do you know someone who has their financial head too far in the clouds? If you do (sing along with me):<\/p>\n

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\nGo get your shovel
\nAnd we’ll dig a deep hole
\nTo bury the castle, bury the castle\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’ve got the full lyrics for you after the jump…<\/p>\n

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Well she lives in the fairy tale
\nSomewhere too far for us to find
\nForgotten the taste and smell
\nOf a world that she’s left behind
\nIt’s all about the exposure the lens I told her<\/p>\n

The angles are all wrong now
\nShe’s ripping wings off of butterflies
\nKeep your feet on the ground
\nWhen your head’s in the clouds<\/p>\n

Well go get your shovel
\nAnd we’ll dig a deep hole
\nTo bury the castle, bury the castle
\nGo get your shovel
\nAnd we’ll dig a deep hole
\nTo bury the castle, bury the castle
\nBa da ba ba da ba ba da<\/p>\n

So one day he found her crying
\nCoiled up on the dirty ground
\nHer prince finally came to save her
\nAnd the rest you can figure out
\nBut it was a trick
\nAnd the clock struck 12<\/p>\n

Well make sure to build your home brick by boring brick
\nor the wolf’s gonna blow it down
\nKeep your feet on the ground
\nWhen your head’s in the clouds<\/p>\n

Well go get your shovel
\nAnd we’ll dig a deep hole
\nTo bury the castle, bury the castle
\nGo get your shovel
\nAnd we’ll dig a deep hole
\nTo bury the castle, bury the castle
\nWoah, woah.<\/p>\n

Well you built up a world of magic
\nBecause your real life is tragic
\nYeah you built up a world of magic<\/p>\n

If it’s not real
\nYou can’t hold it in your hand
\nYou can’t feel it with your heart
\nAnd I won’t believe it<\/p>\n

But if it’s true
\nYou can see it with your eyes
\nOr even in the dark
\nAnd that’s where I want to be, yeah<\/p>\n

Go get your shovel
\nAnd we’ll dig a deep hole
\nTo bury the castle, bury the castle
\nGo get your shovel
\nAnd we’ll dig a deep hole
\nTo bury the castle, bury the castle
\nBa da ba ba da ba ba da…<\/p>\n

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