Pretty much all my friends are bad with money, we’re all in our early twenties/late teens, and none of my friends can seem to keep any money in their bank accounts. I’m very particular about where my money is spent and really don’t like to partake in some of the things they do simply because it costs a decent amount of money. I’ve told them before that I just don’t want to spend the money, and they respect my decision but are assholes about it with offhanded remarks here or there. Which DOESget annoying after a while.
So I’m considering the idea of telling them all I’m broke. I’m putting all my money into my emergency account right now so my checking/savings accounts are relatively low. I don’t want to mooch off of them or anything, I just want to deter them from asking me to spend so much money with them all the time.
Thoughts?
EDIT: My money is being saved because I'm about to become a real estate agent, and since I'm going to work on that full time, I'm trying to save up enough money to cover any bills and stuff until I can build up my business. Should have clarified!
EDIT 2: Whoah, these are a lot of replies! Sorry if I don’t respond to everyone, all the advice/perspective is really helpful.
EDIT 3: I think I’m just going to be honest with my friends and tell them I can’t afford to do certain things and that it doesn’t work out for my budget. If they don’t accept it then that’s that. Time to move on. I’m also going to find more people with a similar mindset, I definitely think that will help out in the long run. I’ll be doing that regardless of the outcome of me telling my friends my situation.
I’ve also realized from some of you all that I should also develop more of a backbone, and I agree. I notice that I don’t stand up for myself as much as I need to and I’m not going to get anywhere if I can’t do that. So those are my takeaways, and another thing, I didn’t clarify this before but I do spend time with my friends and I do spend money with them. The issue is that they spend money SO MUCH that it’s just a bit much for me.
Submitted May 19, 2019 at 05:58PM by Swee10 http://bit.ly/2LRYLEg
