In Which Miss Jill Shares Hard Earned Economic Advice Part 3

One year my sister and I returned to Provo, Utah for school after spending the summer at our parent’s house in Chicago. We were really depressed to be back (if you went to BYU, you can probably identify with this), and somehow talked our dad into getting us a posh hotel room in downtown Salt Lake so that we could get out of there.

As we were eating breakfast in the hotel restaurant, two women who appeared to be sisters sat down at a table nearby. The both appeared to be very affluent and were sporting huge rocks. My sister took one look at them and said, “We need to make a goal today-someday that will be us.” I’m pleased to report that that goal has been halfway fulfilled-apparently I am the late bloomer in the trophy wife department. The nineteen-year-old model (NYOM) called my sister to ask her for some tips on becoming a trophy wife and she advised, “Just be really hot.” I have too big of a time commitment to Turkish kids/Netflix foreign films/pushing refresh on Facebook status updates to bring that to fruition.

However, some of my friends are more ambitious. A showbiz bff of mine answered a Craigslist ad for a matchmaking service that links millionaires with hot young actresses/models. When she arrived, they interviewed her briefly and then showed her a book featuring pictures and profiles of the bachelors. She chose a few and as she was leaving, she ran into the NYOM coming in. Her verdict after a few millionaire dates: “I was only doing it for the free food and I just scored tons of free food from a show I was in, so there really isn’t a point.”