How do you develop a more middle class attitude towards budgeting? My husband and I both grew up poor. Food stamps and commodities and unemployment and free lunches at school poor. We've worked hard and now have a six figure income. However, we run into issues when we figure out our money that obviously stem from our upbringing and being taught to budget from people who can't even live paycheck-to-paycheck. I have a tendency to super-coupon and stock sale food and clearance clothing, my toddlers have clothing to last for a few years and they can hand down as an example. I've tried to cut back, but it gives me anxiety. On his end spending anything at all causes anxiety, and the more money he spends the more he will panic even if spending a little more is obviously a smarter choice. He will buy $20 shoes every year for a decade rather than spending $50 on one pair of shoes that will last the whole decade. Or make it work, we've been on the same $20 knife set for the past 15 years even though every time he touches one he complains how it doesn't work as well as his $100 knife that was a gift, but not enough to go out and get new knives or pay to sharpen the old ones. I'm pretty sure neither of these attitudes are 'normal' for middle class income, but how do we learn what's actually 'normal' for stocking and making purchases that last?
Submitted October 01, 2018 at 02:10PM by poorsocky https://ift.tt/2RgQVmb
