From screen scares to financial savvy: Extracting 3 hidden money lessons from The First Omen

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Also Read: Crew: 3 important money lessons from this Tabu, Kareena and Kriti starrer A shiver will go down your spine often as you see her battle evil. If you apply those moments to your money life, you will see huge lessons to learn. You have seen enough horror films where Satan marks his presence with a number: 666.

The heroine sees many signs that suggest evil and they are enough to keep you awake through the night. She has been seeing signs since her childhood, but at the orphanage where she was raised, the nuns restrained her and told her again and again that she was imagining everything. If people know you are new to investing then they will fill your head with all kinds of information that is not right.

You cannot be a wide-eyed innocent, trusting fly-by-night operators of chit funds and the like with your money. Trying to get your money back from them will be a nightmare scarier than any horror film. Look out for signs.

Evil schemes are often too good to be true. If they promise you great gains for little or no work stay away.

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But Mother Superior and the other nuns as well as the children are wary of that wild child. Margaret is even told to stay away from her. Reverse the situation in real life, people around you laugh at you if you choose to invest in something safe and reliable as an FD.

They will goad you into trading stocks and options which they say are better. But remember, your risk profile is different from others as are your money goals. Stick with what works best for you.