Comments on: Our money roots http://www.bluntmoney.com/our-money-roots/ Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:20:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dawn http://www.bluntmoney.com/our-money-roots/comment-page-1/#comment-24097 dawn Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:56:08 +0000 http://www.bluntmoney.com/our-money-roots/#comment-24097 It's funny how we let our childhood distract us from our present self. It's almost like we wish we could go back and correct the things that we would rather forget. The thing with money though, is a lot of the people we think had money probably lived beyond their means. And a lot of the people we perceived as poor, could have been leading perfectly satisfying lives. Financial and personal success is all very subjective. It’s funny how we let our childhood distract us from our present self.
It’s almost like we wish we could go back and correct the things that we would rather forget.
The thing with money though, is a lot of the people we think had money probably lived beyond their means.
And a lot of the people we perceived as poor, could have been leading perfectly satisfying lives.
Financial and personal success is all very subjective.

]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.bluntmoney.com/our-money-roots/comment-page-1/#comment-24074 Elizabeth Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:08:14 +0000 http://www.bluntmoney.com/our-money-roots/#comment-24074 Blunt -- I enjoyed both posts. I particularly got a kick out of your description of your midwestern upbringing. I could SO relate even though my own background couldn't have been more different. Think Kennedy Democrats. In my family, being poor wasn't the sin; being uneducated was. My father came "from money" and my mother from upper-crust European stock. We started out okay but when my father abandoned us we saw some really tough financial times. But when were poor, the people around us were poorer so I don't remember being ashamed or feeling judged. Just hungry. We might have lived in a run-down one-bedroom trailer (all 6 of us) and had nothing to eat but watery potato soup and a 20lb bag of pinto beans, but we were definitely still expected to hold our forks like ladies and gentlemen and use cloth napkins. And "ain't" was most definitely not a word to be uttered, even in jest. The pejoratives used in my family were "nouveau riche" and "pedestrian" and later "suburban" ;-) I think that no matter what our upbringing, we all have shackles of prejudices and assumptions. They just come in different guises. Even if we don't judge others, we judge ourselves -- and fear that others judge us in the same way. Blunt — I enjoyed both posts. I particularly got a kick out of your description of your midwestern upbringing. I could SO relate even though my own background couldn’t have been more different. Think Kennedy Democrats. In my family, being poor wasn’t the sin; being uneducated was.

My father came “from money” and my mother from upper-crust European stock. We started out okay but when my father abandoned us we saw some really tough financial times. But when were poor, the people around us were poorer so I don’t remember being ashamed or feeling judged. Just hungry. We might have lived in a run-down one-bedroom trailer (all 6 of us) and had nothing to eat but watery potato soup and a 20lb bag of pinto beans, but we were definitely still expected to hold our forks like ladies and gentlemen and use cloth napkins. And “ain’t” was most definitely not a word to be uttered, even in jest.

The pejoratives used in my family were “nouveau riche” and “pedestrian” and later “suburban” ;-)

I think that no matter what our upbringing, we all have shackles of prejudices and assumptions. They just come in different guises. Even if we don’t judge others, we judge ourselves — and fear that others judge us in the same way.

]]> By: Clifford http://www.bluntmoney.com/our-money-roots/comment-page-1/#comment-24058 Clifford Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:29:35 +0000 http://www.bluntmoney.com/our-money-roots/#comment-24058 For my two cents: let this fear of being judged go. No matter what you do, someone will judge you. Whether it's the fear of looking poor or the fear of looking rich, someone will judge. And if someone is judging you then they are not worth your time. For my two cents: let this fear of being judged go.

No matter what you do, someone will judge you. Whether it’s the fear of looking poor or the fear of looking rich, someone will judge. And if someone is judging you then they are not worth your time.

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