Living With Money explores the personal side of personal finance: how our bank balances do and don’t define who we are.
From an early age, I’ve always been fixated on saving money as a point of pride. As kids, my parents offered us a choice: We could either get an allowance — like, $10 a week or something — and spend it on whatever we wanted, or we could get no allowance and they’d pay for everything but we had to run our purchases by them first. My sisters were like, “I don’t want an allowance.
I got married pretty young, and around that time my mom started worrying that I was being too tight with money, and that I was “depriving” myself of nice things just for the sake of being frugal — as ridiculous as that sounds. I think she was also worried that my husband wouldn’t treat me like the queen they thought I was, at least in the material sense. When it comes to gifts, my parents go big or go home, and that’s not how my husband or his family are.
If my mom sees me not buy something that I want, she will not let it go. For example, when those Valentino Rockstud shoes first came out a few years ago, I made the mistake of eyeing them when I was out shopping with her. She asked me if I wanted them, and I said that they just doesn’t seem like a worthwhile purchase. And she just latched onto it and was constantly giving me shit.
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Many would hate but I'm not mad at it. If her parents wanna give me an allowance too that'll be great lol
If she doesn’t want it I’ll take it. Shoot I’ll even take just part of it.
Wearing that fur, she looks like an old bag.
The whole tone of this “article” is weird. Are we suppose to pity her or something?
While this is an incredible expense for kid’s clothing one year... It’d be a cool thing for this family to forgo Christmas presents one year donate time & money to a local charity & show their kids some perspective & gratitude so they don’t expect things like this. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
Must be nice lol.
If after a whole year the title still isn’t: How I Spend My Unwarranted Allowance on Balancing Social Inequities, then it should be: Diary of an A-hole
You write this shit because it gets clicks and makes you money. It’s irresponsible to publish gross shit like this. And people wonder why income inequality is such a problem. It’s not only because people like this exist, it’s because YOU publish them and put them on a pedestal.
It’s simply heartbreaking. 🤣🤣 Cry me a river!!
For clothes? For real? 20K could house a family of four modestly but well for at least a year in some areas. And yet we wonder why people are up in arms over income inequality. 🤢
This is from over a year ago? Slow news day means “let’s revisit the wasteful lifestyles of shitty privileged people again”, huh? 😴
Boo hoo. Stop running this article, it's pointless.
Why are you writing about this? So many more important things.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -Napoleon Bonaparte
So many questions
This is disgusting.
This, Kate Midddleton’s earrings, a story about a rim job gone bad.... Someone help me remember why I follow NY Magazine. 🤦🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️🤔
Could be me 😂
Lucky
Unpaid social media intern fomenting revolution?
Why are we recycling this old article that pissed off people years ago. Slow news day?
This was a terrible and gross article a year ago. What makes you think it’s still relevant or important a year later ?
We have a list of beautiful dresses ready for to buy at TBHQ 🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️ Lool
I think your mom might be a little out of touch with her identity outside of $$$
I fucking wish lol
Wow so interesting tell us more 🙄
Fuck you ... I'm still wearing the same sneakers for 12 years
Never separating from your parents and becoming your own person can be difficult, especially when the chain holding you together is money...
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