I think everyone's childhood pain and fear and distress is their own. Equally valid. I wasn't going for a "more trauma than thou" thing here, just making sure that people realize that not having an IRA in high school doesn't make them under-privileged.
Those hungry-times leave a mark. Pack-rat behavior and the like. For a while, my ex and I were kind of couch-surfing/homeless, and I kept everything that was important in my purse. I can't carry one anymore, because I put everything I don't want to have taken away in it and it ends up being way too heavy.
With my husband and my relative success, I really don't know how to cope with money. I sort of spend it down until it's the small amounts that I know what to do with. We don't do much credit card debt, but if there's money in the bank for much more than the bills it's foreign territory.
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I think everyone's childhood pain and fear and distress is their own. Equally valid. I wasn't going for a "more trauma than thou" thing here, just making sure that people realize that not having an IRA in high school doesn't make them under-privileged.
Those hungry-times leave a mark. Pack-rat behavior and the like. For a while, my ex and I were kind of couch-surfing/homeless, and I kept everything that was important in my purse. I can't carry one anymore, because I put everything I don't want to have taken away in it and it ends up being way too heavy.
With my husband and my relative success, I really don't know how to cope with money. I sort of spend it down until it's the small amounts that I know what to do with. We don't do much credit card debt, but if there's money in the bank for much more than the bills it's foreign territory.