Your siblings and money

bambilegs

Do you feel your financial approach and goals are similar to your siblings, or do your brothers/sisters think you’re crazy when you talk about money? What do you think influenced this, and what’s your birth order?

pickledonionspaceraider

We don't talk about money in my family. It is a boring non - subject in my opinion and I would likely shy away from that topic . If your sibling doesn't want to talk, maybe they feel the same - and I mean that in the nicest way - but not everyone shares your view on moneys importance or non importance - ifswim

In our house, don't have any financial goals, these days , as such. We have other priorities - and I dont mean that in a patronising way, we have 'caring' financial obligations so its different for us - we have dependants who need additional monetary help (not children)

But ten years ago I was more blinkered to moneys importance, and the whole home ownership thing

Nowadays we both earn a fairly decent wage (but i suppose that is subjective to a lot of things) , have an affordable mortgage, and as long as we have enough to pay the bills, we don't have goals as such

I guess I am not the target audience for your post OP - but welcome to the site

bambilegs

^ hi. This is a hypothetical Q- doesn’t relate to me and my sibling . My sibling and I talk about money matters where appropriate, she’s also a lot younger than I. Don’t take things too literally. And I also mean this in the nicest way.

bambilegs

^ also thanks for your welcome.

pickledonionspaceraider

bambilegs wrote: »

^ hi. This is a hypothetical Q- doesn’t relate to me and my sibling . My sibling and I talk about money matters where appropriate, she’s also a lot younger than I. Don’t take things too literally. And I also mean this in the nicest way.

A hypothetical question? May I ask what was the point of your post, do you know someone in this situation?

Sorry OP I just dont understand the point of the thread

I think you should make things clearer or either - why did you post this?

I understand it is hard for newbies on here, but you need to be clearer to get any kind of decent response or :-

You will get properly hammered by the natives / called out as a troll
or
No one will bother answering. A lot of posters won't respond to a newbie anyway - and a hypothetical question of no relevance to yourself seems a strange way to start

I have seen a lot of nice seeming newbies get hammered so just saying you need to make it clearer what you are asking / reasons why - give a bit of info - thats all

bambilegs

Yeah no worries. I’ve seen others get hammered too which isn’t very welcoming. Thanks for the heads up.

bambilegs

I do know someone close to me in this situation . I stared the post because we were talking about siblings and how we may differ in attitudes to certain things including finances, she told me her and her sibling differ despite only being a few years apart, she’s the eldest.

Trina90

I am the youngest of 3 and have been the most careful with money. My sister (eldest child) is similar though, but probably mainly just because she has to be, as a working mother. She has started doing online surveys after I told her about it too.

I've seen how both my brother and sister have had to be tight with their money, because of bringing up children, alongside working, so this has made me want to pay as much off my mortgage off as I can, before we have any children. I guess that's the good thing about being the youngest, you can learn from your siblings. We've all got similar incomes and homes so we all pretty much have the same view on money.

-taff

Sounds like an essay question

elsien

My siblings are loaded. I am not.
Although it's not something we talk about particularly, it would be difficult not have different approaches/goals when they can spend without thinking about it and I can't. It has nothing to do with birth order, just the different paths our lives have led.

chesky

The OP seems to have a habit of asking hypothetical questions like this.