http://www.seattlemoneycoach.com/what-is-your-money-story Financial Recovery Coach and Author Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:30:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.seattlemoneycoach.com/what-is-your-money-story/comment-page-1#comment-183 Sandy Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:40:28 +0000 http://www.womenearning.com/blog/?p=827#comment-183 This idea of a 'money story' got me thinking about my story - something I haven't done much. When I was a teenager and started earning my own money by babysitting, I was paid in cash. I would spend it as fast as I earned it -- the candy store, the mall, etc. It was like it was burning a hole in my pocket and needed to be spent. No one ever told me I might want to have savings for the future. I think I always associated having cash with needing to spend it fast. Or that cash wasn't meant to be saved. I went on to work in a restaurant all through high school and guess what!?! I was paid in cash and spent it ALL. I had nothing saved for college when it was time to go away. This idea of a ‘money story’ got me thinking about my story – something I haven’t done much. When I was a teenager and started earning my own money by babysitting, I was paid in cash. I would spend it as fast as I earned it — the candy store, the mall, etc. It was like it was burning a hole in my pocket and needed to be spent. No one ever told me I might want to have savings for the future. I think I always associated having cash with needing to spend it fast. Or that cash wasn’t meant to be saved. I went on to work in a restaurant all through high school and guess what!?! I was paid in cash and spent it ALL. I had nothing saved for college when it was time to go away.

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