It’s sales time, that for a girl who got hired for the first time in her life ( after five years spent working for free ) means the paradise. Too bad that I usually sit behind my desk at 09.30 in the morning and get off at 08.00 p.m., so I can fall in love with the shop windows only  platonically and have to keep being dressed up as a stagiaire ( which it’s a metaphore for ”I look completely messed up”). Anyway, saving money isn’t a bad idea either, since I’ve noticed ( and I’m not a finance genius at all, I’m more the goat-for-cow-swap kind of girl) that lately people is getting poorer and poorer ( maybe switching from Liras to Euro wasn’t such a good idea. Now we can wander around Europe as much as we like, but we have no money to go back home…) and have started looking for alternatives. Take a look at the newspapers, the only ones who can still afford a standard lifestyle ( standard: not being obliged to fight with the squirrels for a bunch of  acorns in the city park) are those who have been able to give something ( anything) for rent. Of course, who has an apartment, a house, a cave ( please, don’t laugh, caves in Milan are bloody expensive…and romantic, as well, you and your sweetheart could pretend to be Mary and Joseph at Christmas Eve) nowadays can consider himself only a step below Onassis. Anyway, even if you aren’t so lucky, don’t bring yourself down.  Just take a look around you: almost everything you own could be useful for someone else. You could buy a webpage, and give the pixels for rent at one dollar each, as in the Million Dollar Homepage . You could give your pet for rent ( please, notice that the renting rates depend from how cool your pet is. You could get more or less 6 euros/hour for your boring boring turtle and about 500 euros/hour for your guitar playing monkey). If you don’t own a pet and you have no idea of what a pixel is but you own a huge self-esteem, you could always apply for a job at Lease Your Body and walk around with the latest Big Mac commercial stick on your forhead. I’ve read of people leasing the parking space in front of their house and also of people giving their Granny for rent ( don’t think it’s evil, the sweet old lady probably wouldn’t even notice the difference between her grandchildren and a Bengali family, if it wasn’t for the effects of curry on her digestive system). Anyway, the thing is, if you’re broke and sales are almost over, quit thinking about making a robbery and start leasing!