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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 453244" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>I will tell you that this is the one thing that my mom was very good at with my son...and she did a semi good job at with me but some of my bipolar gets the best of me at times but I am somewhat of a credit tightwad. </p><p></p><p>My parents were born in the great depression so they were both able to squeeze a penny till it screamed and my mom was probably better than my dad. My mom taught Billy how to shop and how to save money. She didnt quite teach him how to get a job though...that fell to me. She didnt want him to leave her. </p><p></p><p>She taught him that money should be held onto and only spent when you really, really knew you wanted something. He would research things for months before he bought anything. Sometimes he would get a little bit of money for helping a neighbor for cleaning their yard and he wanted to buy something like a video game...well, they would go some place like Kmart and look at the games for weeks on end while he decided what game he wanted. Probably 2 or 3 months later he would find a game used so that he got a better deal on it. At 16 he saved up 600 dollars to buy his first computer. It took him 3 months to convince her that he knew what he was talking about and allow him to buy it. He rarely impulse buys and when he does, it is normally some small toy for Keyana...lol.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 453244, member: 1514"] I will tell you that this is the one thing that my mom was very good at with my son...and she did a semi good job at with me but some of my bipolar gets the best of me at times but I am somewhat of a credit tightwad. My parents were born in the great depression so they were both able to squeeze a penny till it screamed and my mom was probably better than my dad. My mom taught Billy how to shop and how to save money. She didnt quite teach him how to get a job though...that fell to me. She didnt want him to leave her. She taught him that money should be held onto and only spent when you really, really knew you wanted something. He would research things for months before he bought anything. Sometimes he would get a little bit of money for helping a neighbor for cleaning their yard and he wanted to buy something like a video game...well, they would go some place like Kmart and look at the games for weeks on end while he decided what game he wanted. Probably 2 or 3 months later he would find a game used so that he got a better deal on it. At 16 he saved up 600 dollars to buy his first computer. It took him 3 months to convince her that he knew what he was talking about and allow him to buy it. He rarely impulse buys and when he does, it is normally some small toy for Keyana...lol. [/QUOTE]
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