Beyond Bells & Baubles: 4 valuable money lessons hidden in your favourite Christmas movies
Santa’s sleigh bells, children turn their otherwise equanimous parents into fiends at toy stores, and families. Some people in the family amp up their annoyance quotient so much you secretly wish you had obeyed your instincts and had just snuggled in your bed watching yet another rerun of Bruce Willis in Die Hard. But when you’re walking about the neighbourhood - just to get away from the crazy aunt - and some stranger offers you the best plum cake you’ve ever had, and suddenly fairy lights are switched on, something inside you lights up too… You step into the super crowded wine shop and buy the best wine they have, and come home just brimming with something inexplicable.
The season of such holiday magic is here and we would be amiss if we don’t share money lessons learnt from holidays that make you spend, spend, and spend some more! The Grinch doesn’t like Christmas, so he decides to steal everyone’s presents. Whoville becomes as unhappy as the Grinch himself. It takes a village to bring Christmas back.
Dr Seuss got it right when he created this character in 1957! Joyless and friendless, he is so irritated by everything residents of Whoville do to celebrate Christmas with joyful sounds. A refrain from a Bollywood song comes to mind: ‘Aunty police bula legi!’ when you watch the Grinch grudge the people's happiness. Looks like a bear market, no? A smart investor knows when the market first dips, then corrects (You must never take your eye off the news, be informed!) and by the time stocks are down and others are panicking, you know you can deal with it because you have a well-diversified stock portfolio.
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