[Attempt at a serious topic] What is your attitude to money?

[vetran]

You've got £8.47 in the fruit bowl in the hallway though.

luxury when I was young I only had 33p!

[ladymuck]

You've got £8.47 in the fruit bowl in the hallway though.

Thanks for topping it up for me

[ChimpMaster]

I only view money as a gateway to freedom. If spending it on "things" doesn't make you happy (as it rarely does me) then try experiences, else invest it somewhere that will eventually buy you time and freedom.

[BR14]

Just send all your excess funds to me!
I'll show it a good time*.

*without Any guilt at all.

[DaveB]

I know this is general, but here goes anyway, what is your attitude to money?

I, like the majority of us on here, earn a good wage and shouldn't have any long term financial concerns. The last frivolous purchase I made for myself took me three years to pull the trigger even though I had more than enough cash on hand for the purchase to not even make a dent.

The irony at the moment is I have just been given a large sum of money from my grandmother and parents who are very much of Tarbie's you are a long time dead philosophy who are keen for me to spend in while they are still alive, yet I some how still struggle to justify spending money on myself.

Depending on how large is large, stick it in a fund for the kids to pay Uni Fee's / house deposits etc when they are older. Takes the pressure off you and parent/grand parents know they are supporting the grand kids as well.

[vetran]

Thanks for topping it up for me

oh so you went back to his room as well?

[NotAllThere]

My parents give me a few thousand a year to distribute among the family. Increasingly I've no idea what to spend it on, so I just cut myself out of the split.

[d000hg]

I know this is general, but here goes anyway, what is your attitude to money?

I, like the majority of us on here, earn a good wage and shouldn't have any long term financial concerns. The last frivolous purchase I made for myself took me three years to pull the trigger even though I had more than enough cash on hand for the purchase to not even make a dent.

The irony at the moment is I have just been given a large sum of money from my grandmother and parents who are very much of Tarbie's you are a long time dead philosophy who are keen for me to spend in while they are still alive, yet I some how still struggle to justify spending money on myself.

I'm certainly a saver rather than a spender, I like to have the security that if I need so spend a LOT on something important I have it, rather than fluttered it away on frivolities.

Coming from relatively little to relative wealth my take on money is that it's really just a tool. I went quite quickly from living month-to-month to having a much bigger income and realised the power of money to expedite things and remove obstacles. Small examples being:

• people generally shop around looking for the cheapest price, but just buying the thing with the least effort and next-day delivery can remove a blocker to getting something done.
• If I want to travel somewhere, I would normally look ahead to when I can get reasonable priced tickets, and work around that. With money, I just book when it's convenient.

So for me, money is less about things and more about a way to get things done.

[d000hg]

My parents give me a few thousand a year to distribute among the family. Increasingly I've no idea what to spend it on, so I just cut myself out of the split.

Want to contribute towards our new church roof?

[NotAllThere]

Er... nope. Sorry vicar.