Earliest Money Memory
By soooobored
@soooobored (1184)
United States
July 10, 2008 2:05pm CST
I've started a Suze Orman "financial guidebook", where you "put the 9 steps to work". It's really great, I've flipped through it, and I'm really excited to do the exercises.
However, the very first exercise is describing your first money memory and the emotions that are linked to it. The theory is that there is some kind of emotion (shame, anger, etc) connected with money that makes you mistreat it as a result. She prompts the participant to not move forward in the guidebook until this step is complete.
I don't want to cheat and move on, but I can't remember my first money memory!! And I really think it would be a valuable thing to know, because I do have a highly unusual relationship with my finances.
How many people here remember their first money memory?
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@wilsongoddard (7291)
• United States
12 Jul 08
It isn't cheating to use something that is more recent but is still the earliest thing that you remember regarding money. While it is good to examine early childhood to see what sort of foundation you are working from, even something from your teens would be valuable-- and, if it's the earliest memory, it really is your "first money memory!"
@soooobored (1184)
• United States
12 Jul 08
The only thing I can come up with so far is when I was about eight or nine I lost a pair of gold earrings my dad got me for Christmas, and I remember feeling really sad and guilty because I knew they were expensive!
But I feel like I'm missing the earlier memory if I already knew it was expensive and that we were broke?
I'm a perfectionist at times, and its usually my downfall!
