davemc
Executive Member
Voiceeeb ... lend me like one kajillion dollahs!
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blunomore
Honorary Master
Well IMO, it comes from not having any money and suddenly having more than you know what to do with. You want to get your hands on the hottest car out there when you get a job, becuase you come from far less than affluent enviroments, the value of money is skewed.
As for I cant afford this, if the doo doo really hits the fan, just move back to the township, where living expenses are next to nothing (compared to the suburbs).
Kids at school should actually get skilled in how to 'use' money, how to budget, etc (if it is not being done already).
Having more money than ever before and no idea of how to use it wisely is very dangerous.
blunomore
Honorary Master
let me guess this is your partner?.. that hardly ever sticks around for long
Hmm?
No, it's my husband. He's in it for the laung haul
let me guess this is your partner?.. that hardly ever sticks around for long
Would you stick around if you were her partner? She comes across as those ladies who are demanding.
That only works if its done at home as well.
I mean really, if you grew up watching your parents scrape by every month, and they dont budget, its never going to instilled in a child.
blunomore
Honorary Master
Would you stick around if you were her partner? She comes across as those ladies who are demanding.
Demanding what?
Mila
Honorary Master
I was told that I have a white woman's attitude to money ... LOL! No surprises there, since I am indeed a white woman.
The person who said this to me, did not mean it an an insult at all, simply reflecting the fact that I keep an eye on my money, that if I owe someone I make sure to pay them, and if they owe me, I'll hunt them down and collect what is owing to me
But is this more a characteristic of white people? I must say, in my experience of certain other ethnic groups (Indian and black people), I do find that they are more 'community minded' and 'family minded' when it comes to money and the appropriation thereof. In other words, there is more of a sense of 'let's help each other' with these groups, whereas (again in my own experience) with white people, there is more of a 'each one for himself' attitude.
Your thoughts on it?
Might be a white woman thing but Blu i think it might be more of a nice person thing because i know a few white women who owes me money
blunomore
Honorary Master
Nope. I work very hard for it.
You sure do.
d0b33
Honorary Master
Would you stick around if you were her partner? She comes across as those ladies who are demanding.
Bondizzo
Expert Member
Lots of friends owe me money, have about R5000 left to collect, and last month I was owed in total R35k , no more lending money without putting it in writing of some sort.
Aeron
Senior Member
Before lending money from a friend, pick the one you need most. Before lending money TO friends, ask someone to kick you in the head so that you can go "deja vu" when you do it to yoursef later.
There's a beggar in Edenvale that owed me R20.
He kept on asking me to lend him R5, after suffering for 4 weeks with his persistent asking, I lent him R20. I made double dead sure that he was aware that I was lending him the money and that he had better pay it back tomorrow. I even got him to agree that he would pay it back tomorrow before giving it to him.
Then, for the next four or five months, every time he came to me asking me to lend him R5, I asked him for my R20 back.
Then I started I badgered him every chance I got.
About 2 weeks before I left Gauteng, the bastard gave me back my R20.
Go figure.
A lady friend in Cape Town was approached by a burgie (sp) who asked for her small change - she replied that she had none, to which he responded "may god bless you for your lies"