Alert: Please Shed Your Single Superwoman Cape!

Close Off Access To Your Bank Accounts

As EVERYBODY knows (and that one aunt likes to point out every holiday) you are single, which means that all of your bank accounts are in your name alone. But by golly, you wouldn’t know that looking at the way folks stay in your pockets. Nephew Billy wants that new video game for Christmas (in addition to what you already bought him). Your friend needs bail money for her daughter’s father. Aunt Pearl put a deposit on the big cake for Grandma’s birthday, but she doesn’t have the rest of the money to pick it up. Somehow all these things end up in your lap. Why? Well, you don’t have diapers to buy or a husband to feed. You must have some extra money laying around. Doesn’t that just kill you? Extra money. Hmph. What is extra money and why is it always for someone other than you? Continue being the kind, generous woman you are, but have limits. Don’t let folks play you for the fool or treat you like their own personal ATM.