The Modern Girl's Guide To Being A Domestic Goddess
Chapter 11 : Gold Diggin' 101
Where is your Treasure?
You ought to be ashamed of yourself! I can see you now: reading through the table of contents, seeing “Gold Diggin’ 101,” and scrambling to get to this chapter. Did you really think, after all of this, that I was going to show you how to use men for money? If you did, you need to flip back to page one and start reading from the beginning!
Here is what I am going to teach you: How to dig your own gold and create a rich life for yourself. You are a valuable woman. You have a hidden treasure within you that is just waiting to be discovered. You don’t need a man to buy you things and take care of you. And what makes you think he wants to spend his hard-earned money on some needy chick anyway? If he does, well, we all know what he expects in return.
Here’s what real gold digging should be defined as: using your God-given gifts, talents, and abilities to create the life you want. Becoming rich in self-love, in spirit, and in life so when a man does come along, you are overflowing with treasures and he only adds value to what you already have.
Women who call themselves “gold diggers”—or they probably don’t call themselves that, but we all know that’s what they are—and chase men for money and material things are pathetic. Having some random guy drop a load of cash on you so you can walk around laced in things that you know you can’t afford yourself does not make you special. And being trophy pieces, arm candy, or a “wifey” of a “baller” is nothing spectacular either. Do you know how common, average, and simple-minded that makes you? Let me tell you what men really think of women like that: NOTHING. That’s right....