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Your Life in Money - In Only Six Words

The story goes that some folks in a bar asked Ernest Hemingway to write a memoir in six words. His answer:

“For sale: baby shoes, never worn”

From the legend spawns a book from the folks at Smith magazine, Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure. The book, which comes out this week, is a compendium of six-word biographies from celebrities and everyday folks proving that indeed, less can be more.

And since we’re all about poetry and life stories here at FiLife, our editorial team took a stab at writing our own personal- finance biographies using Papa Hemingway’s way. Here are our lives in money, in six words. Not more. Not less.

Spent much, saved little. Oh well.

–Irina Aleksander

Got more sense than dollars, unfortunately.

–Sam Grobart

Economics of utility break the bank.

–Daniel Hay

Started in sports, went into stocks.

–Dave Kansas

Really glad I bought a condo.

–Ron Lieber

I hear financial security is overrated.

–Mary Pilon

Brooklyn brownstones dance in my head.

–Tara Siegel Bernard

I’ve kept it simple and prospered.

–Kristen Sullivan

Please drop your own into the comment box below. Also, we’re going to seek six-word bios from famous financial folk. Any nominations?

(Bonus: A YouTube video with some of the best from the book.)