What personal finance lessons can we learn from watching The Simpsons? A lot, if we consider the long-running sitcom as a cautionary tale. “Americans go through life not being careful with their money,” says Steven Keslowitz, author of The World According to the Simpsons: What Our Favorite TV Family Says About Life, Love and the Pursuit of the Perfect Donut. “A lot of people coast through life and they get a salary, but they’re not quite sure how things work, and that’s so much like Homer Simpson.” Take the episode “Homer’s Enemy,” in which Homer’s hard-working but downbeat colleague, Frank Grimes, asks Homer how he gets by so easily, despite his lack of education or financial planning. Homer’s response? “Don’t ask me how the economy works.” Photo Credit: omniNate