Have you ever been really broke?  So broke that you decided to round up some of the things you bought back on pay day to take it back for store credit or cash for actual necessities?  So broke that you sold anything in your teeny apartment that you didn’t need – including taking the huge CD collection (Hello, 2002!) up to the CD store for cash back?  What about taking items to a pawn shop for a quick buck?

I Was A Broke Girl

I remember being in that place when my hubby and I first got married!  Times were really different for us.  We both went from living fairly comfortably, with things paid for by our parents, to suddenly trying to figure out finances on our own.  It’s hard to come to the realization that it takes time to build up to the level that you grew up with.

It’s funny looking back on it now, because if I would have just cut back on my obsessions (lip balm and shoe collections, of course!), then I would have had an easier time.  It’s nice to know that it’s all in the past for us now.  It wasn’t a great experience, but it helped me to appreciate things a heck of a lot more.  I’ve learned a lot since then!

2 Broke Girls

Speaking of broke, have you ever watched the show called 2 Broke Girls on CBS?  Every time I watch it, I laugh at the shenanigans the ladies get into on the job and at home.

2 Broke Girls has moved to a NEW TIME – Mondays at 8:30/7:30 c on CBS.

ABOUT 2 BROKE GIRLS

2 BROKE GIRLS is a comedy about the unlikely friendship that develops between two very different young women who meet waitressing at a diner in trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and form a bond over their dream of one day owning their own successful cupcake business.  Only one thing stands in their way – they’re broke.  Sarcastic, street-smart Max Black met the sophisticated, school-smart Caroline Channing when the uptown trust fund princess was having a run of bad luck due to her father’s Wall Street scandal, which caused her to lose all her money and forced her to give waitressing a shot.  At first, Max sees Caroline as an entitled rich girl, but she’s surprised to find that Caroline has as much substance as she does style. When Caroline discovers Max’s knack for baking amazing cupcakes, she visualizes a lucrative future for them and they begin to save money to reach their start-up money goal of $250,000.  As the girls’ cupcake tally expands week-to-week, they become closer to their goal and to each other.  At the diner they are surrounded by their offbeat, colorful “work family”: Oleg, an overly flirtatious cook; Earl, a hip 75-year-old cashier; Han, the eager-to-please owner of the diner; and Sophie, the girls’ outrageous upstairs neighbor. As Max and Caroline climb toward their goal, we see that their “smarts” plus their “hearts” might just be the recipe for success.

ON AIR:      Mondays (8:30-9:00 PM, ET/PT)

Check out this week’s episode!

It sounds like it’s going to be really funny.

When Max and Caroline start losing business to the new cronut craze (half-croissant, half-donut), they come up with their own trend – cake fries.

(That doesn’t sound so bad to me…)

Tune in on Monday at 8:30/7:30 c on CBS!

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