Don't Buy Stuff - Saturday Night Live

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What it is

A 2006 Saturday Night Live fake infomercial with Steve Martin and Amy Poehler selling the sure-fire way out of debt: don't buy stuff.

HN posts it as a favorite comic summary of debt avoidance and spending discipline, and as a joke in buy-now-pay-later threads.

“This is my favorite video that explains it all”
Sketch summing up credit card and spending discipline.
FrontierPsych, 2022-12 · Strong recommendation · in “The Cost of Being Poor: Why It Costs So Much to Be Poor in America”
“SNL made a wonderful infomercial in 2006 about point 3: avoid debt.”
SNL infomercial about avoiding debt.
ezequiel-garzon, 2016-03 · Recommendation · in “Golden Rules for Making Money (1880)”

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Topics: snl, debt, personal finance, sketch comedy, credit cards