I overspend on my children to make up for working long hours.
Toys, gadgets, trips. I know it does not replace time, but I cannot stop. My savings are suffering.
Be the first to rate Rate it →Results for “saving”
My wife handles all the money and I do not know our savings. She says it is easier that way.
She manages the bank accounts, investments and bills. She is good at it and I appreciate it. But last week I realised I could not answer a simple question about our finances if something happened to her. When I…
Be the first to rate Rate it →I am saving for a wedding but my fiance's family expects a lavish event that we can not afford.
Their relatives expect certain customs, and my parents are worried. We want a simple wedding.
Be the first to rate Rate it →I am 28 and have no savings. My friends all seem to be buying houses.
I earn an average salary and spend most of it on rent and bills. I feel behind and ashamed.
Be the first to rate Rate it →We got a big wedding gift in cash, and my husband wants to give it to his parents. I wanted to save it.
We are still paying rent and our savings are small. His parents did not ask for it, but he feels it would be respectful to hand it over. I feel it is our fund to build our future.
Be the first to rate Rate it →My husband wants to invest all our savings in a friend's business.
He says it is a sure thing and will change our lives. I have met the friend and I am not convinced. We have children and little else.
Be the first to rate Rate it →I lent my brother my wedding savings. Now he says I should be glad to help family and stop bringing it up.
My brother's business needed money urgently, and I gave him almost all the savings meant for my wedding. He promised to repay within six months. It has been fourteen. When I asked, he said I was making family f…
Be the first to rate Rate it →I stayed until midnight to fix a teammate's mistake. He got the praise in the all-hands, and I said nothing.
Our launch was due on a Friday. On Thursday night a teammate's code broke the payment page, and he had already left for a family event. I fixed it by midnight and did not message anyone, because I did not want…
Be the first to rate Rate it →My manager presented my project as his own, so I replied-all with the original file and timestamps.
I spent six weeks building a cost-saving analysis. I sent it to my manager to review. Two days later he presented it to the leadership team as 'something I've been working on', with my slides, his name on the c…
6.9303 ratings Rate it →We split the restaurant bill equally. I only had a salad and water. I asked to pay just my share.
Group dinner, eight friends. Everyone ordered drinks, starters, mains and dessert. I'm saving hard this year, so I ordered a salad and water. Total for me: about $14. When the bill came, someone said 'let's jus…
5.4230 ratings Rate it →My husband spent our holiday savings on a gaming PC without asking. So I booked the trip with my friends instead.
We'd been saving for a beach holiday for a year, in a joint account. We agreed big purchases need both of us to say yes. Last month he spent most of it on a new gaming computer. His reason: 'the old one was dyi…
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