Girls Scout Leader
<font color="red">Brave And Fearless Leader Willin
- Joined
- Nov 10, 2001
My DH anid I were riased in frugal ( POOR) homes, but I have collections that do not cost much...refridgerator magnents. DS and DD ( 11 & 13 ) have a good time looking at stuff, but we budget about $10 each per day for things that they do not have justify to us. We take care of tickets, meals, but when it became their own money, it made a big difference in what they spent. Little decisions, good and bad, become a basis for bigger decisions later. At first, they blew the whole on junk, but at the end of the day, when they saw something much more appropriate that they would have rather had, it made a lesson only learned by mom not preaching. Little by little, they really learned to be more cost concious, and they are learning to save for some thing bigger. What they do not spend on one day gets added to the next day's $10. At first DH figured if they did not spend it all that was too bad. But life in the Real world doesn't work that way. Wha doesn't get spent is saved, not lost. And this is not lost on my kids, either. And whining has never been tolerated in our home, so that has never been an issue.