What's your attitude about money?

I love money. I wish I had more money. I'm always thinking of money and ways to make it since I like it so much. I don't love it for itself, but because if you want to have a positive effect on the world, having a lot of money helps you to cut through obstacles and get things done.
 

We’ve always been careful with money, stretching every buck we made. We married young and started with nothing. No family or friends ever gave us or loaned us money. We've never lived in anyone else's home.
We sacrificed and lived below our means, staying out of debt for the most part. We don’t spend money we don’t have.

When we were young, we sat down and discussed the fact that going into debt only seemed to make the bankers/loaners wealthy. We decided not to go into debt, if possible. It has worked out for us.

We have enough now to offer us the freedom of not worrying about money. We can travel, if we want to. There honestly is very little we want. We prefer to live simply.

Money is a tool to make life whatever you want it to be. It doesn’t buy happiness, love, health, a sense of humor, contentment, or wisdom. You’re on your own finding those things.
 

hellomimi said:
All of us have a relationship with money, it affects us directly or indirectly. Some have lots of it, others say they don't even have two pennies to rub together. I'm not asking your financial situation or your net worth.

Is money your master or is it your slave?
Are you a saver or a spender?
Do you discuss money issues before getting into serious relationship? Is it a deal breaker if you're not on the same page?
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I don't have a strong relationship with money, but I've always known I need it to pay my bills and be independent. Since I've been married over forty years, it was never a deal breaker or maker, both my husband and I have the same view of money. We both worked hard all of our adult lives and consciously saved so we could retire early. We met our goal, are debt free and have been able to enjoy our retirement.

Neither of us are big spenders, but when we want or need something we buy it, all of our vehicles were bought with cash, when we buy something on a credit card, we don't do so unless we can pay it off in full when the bill comes. I live a simple life, and plan to have enough money to live out my days in a comfortable manner.
 
My attitude in relation to money?

I have never allowed money to dictate, dominate, control, or curtail how I live, or to mold or shape who I am, and the more I reflect on the materialistic ways of so many in today's day and age, the less I want.

The less I want (money wise)... and the less I want to do with society and this world as a whole.
 
I’m good at handling money, never been in debt, I’m not mean but not stupid either

It strikes me as odd the way siblings have different attitudes to money, brought up with two sisters, one of them has been up to her eyes in debt all her life, never pays her bills until the final demand and scrounges off everybody, the other is as tight as a drum, she would split a bean if she could, and never does anything without there being something in it for her
 

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