Money Matters

I don’t really like to talk about money. I suppose it is kind of a taboo subject, but I will give my best effort.

I used to be really good with money. Administrating money was really fun when I was a kid. In fact, growing up I was treasurer of my grade. And later, I started to sell things in my school with my friends. I even did the job of treasurer, which meant to keep all the receipts from the things we bought and the money in order. I think it was fun because it was like a game.

When I was young I also used to save money, specially coins. This ability was lost with the years. For example, at the university we have to spend a lot of money in copies.

I think the fun was gone when the grown-up bills started. Of course it isn’t fun to receive money

just to go pay it somewhere. I can honestly say that I dread to manage the money, but I have to do it because my partner isn’t very good with money.

Like I said because I was good at saving money usually I had money when I was a kid. So my older brothers just to have to borrow money from me. I thought it was funny since they are 7 and 9 years older than me. Now they don’t need to borrow money from me. My mom sometimes borrowed money from me, but I didn’t like to lend her money. She usually didn’t pay it back because she would say that she had given it to me in the first place.

I pay the bills in cash because I don’t like the idea of doing it online and I don’t have a bank account (yet). And I say yet because I know that I will have to get one in order to get paid in the future.

I think that managing money is really difficult, so both, parents and school, should teach children how to do it. In the school with special projects and at home parents should help them administer their allowance. It is important to teach the children to be responsible with their own money.