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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by lunch with [Friends sitting down eating lunch]

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friends which we think is much better than a lunch of friends okay here's our

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question which of the following sentences has the most positive

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connotation and here are the potential answers.....

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right so which of these sentences leaves

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you thinking huh good for you Maribel and which one leaves you thinking [Maribel stood on front lawn]

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Maribel nope I definitely don't know her yeah so let's check out all the options

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start with D.. The key word here is miserly which makes us think of a miser

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one whom mises, a miser is someone who hoards all their money spending as [Man protective of his money jar]

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little as possible, like Scrooge McDuck and maybe you have a money pool

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but since people don't really like misers you probably won't have too many

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people to play with yeah so D is out what about C well this time the key

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word is stingy and yet again this isn't exactly a complimentary if you're stingy [Man holding dollar bills]

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you're definitely not generous and hey maybe you think that not giving money to

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charity is an admirable quality but you're probably in the minority on that [Charity man walks up to door and man slams door]

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one so C is gone too - how about B the key word here is cheap and surprise

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surprise that isn't exactly positive either someone who's cheap tries to [Girl walks away from restaurant table]

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spend as little money as possible which makes them a horrible person to get as

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your Secret Santa but more importantly makes B wrong that just leaves us with A

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this time the key word is frugal, frugal cheap, stingy and miserly all pretty much

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mean careful with money but frugal isn't quite as negative as the others when we

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call someone frugal it's the signal that they have good judgment with money [Man puts coin inside piggy bank]

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rather than it call them a cheapskate yes so we have our answer

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we hope Maribel enjoys her lunch at home one perk of eating at home is that

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unlike most restaurants the policy on wearing slippers in the establishment

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way more lenient but we're always down to give it a shot nothing like eating a [Maribel eating lunch at home]

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steak in your slippies.

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