Money Nature Nurture

While praying about money habits that I want to change, I was drawn back to my childhood days and thinking about how money was treated. We were poor and my dad worked the midnight shift. I only saw a transfer of money to my mom for groceries. Mom had a budget fir four kids and it was about twenty dollars a week. I think we lived week to week off that, which is why I recall having a big garden, a goose and always fish to eat since my dad fished all the time.

I’m thinking my money habits were developing when I was little and learned through observations. There was no such thing as a credit card in our house. Everything was paid for in cash. If we needed extra money you would earn it somehow. I never received an allowance. Money only cam through gifts, odd jobs or my early jewelry business.

The spend money observing was me watching my parents go to antique shows or flea markets. Random buying of things. I got my socks at the flea market. Eventually, I observed the hiding of money from my mom who also hid just about everything. It was not a together money journey but it became a survival to raise four kids.