Cat Marnell drops in to tell us about SLAM magazine, Money Trees, Class Pass, and more.
March 8, 2022
Cat Marnell is a writer based in New York City who made her mark as an associate editor at Lucky fashion magazine followed by a stint as the beauty director of xoJane.com and her popular Vice column, "Amphetamine Logic". A few years later she went on to write the New York Times bestselling memoir, How to Murder Your Life, about her self-sabotaging lifestyle of addiction, fashion, and downtown nightlife. These days she writes an “alternative lifestyle guide” on Patreon called BEAUTY SHAMBLES, which you should absolutely subscribe to. And lucky for us, Cat is here to tell us what she’s been into.
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I always have a big money tree. Pachira aquatica. They sell them in Chinatown; I got mine at the little plant store on the Bowery a few blocks up from Confucious Plaza. You can tell it’s a money tree because the leaves kind of look like marijuana leaves. Anyway, they really grow; you barely need to take care of them. I pour a drinking glass of water in mine every morning. And you can abandon them for weeks and they’ll be okay. Of course, they represent your money; as your tree grows, your income grows. They’re good luck for your bank account. Buy them as big as you can to start; mine is 6 feet tall now. I bought it at 4 feet.