Reposted due to being removed in another subreddit.
I'm 27 years old and have a crippling fear of losing money, to the point that purchases over a few hundred dollars give me a load of anxiety (car issues, medical bills etc.) I make around 40k a year and have around 25k in retirement as well as 9k in my checking account, I have paid off my student loans at 20k and have no debt. I grew up in a household where my power/gas would get turned off because of my parents poor money habits. I had to teach myself everything when it came to money management and at 21 I was in a load of debt and came home from the grocery store one day to see that I had .1c in my bank account.
Yesterday I realized I'm going to have to spend a pretty penny on my car to get something essential fixed, and my anxiety about spending that kind of money made a chunk of the day pretty stressful even though I have plenty of money to fix it without having to worry about my bills or being able to eat. Does this ever really go away? What have you done to help yourself with worrying about spending money? I think my biggest fear is going back to those points in my life where I have nothing, but I wanted to hear from people who have similar stories.
Submitted October 17, 2021 at 09:57AM by Bleeem0812 https://ift.tt/3lMvDhA
