I'd never really thought about it before, but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One of my concerns for my children is growing up with your parents having a lot of money.
Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
Every time I got paid, I would give my parents money. I would save some money, and I would have a little money to spend.
While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological.
My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.
No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.
My dad said to always do what I loved and not worry about the money or anything, because if I do what I love, then the money will come.
When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways.
It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.
I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.