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Which one simple phrase has changed the way you think about money?
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Only a fool thinks 'cost' and 'worth' are the same.4
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"If you can't afford to pay for it, you can't afford to have it".
Years ago credit card use was not particularly common, now it's become the method of choice for so many, with 'cashless' pushed on us more & more under cover of covid. Internet shopping increasingly commonplace, as a result of covid.
Too many think 'have it today, pay tomorrow', nothing at all for a rainy day, now it's pouring & the State can/will only step in up to a point.Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.3 -
Next year Rodney we'll be millionaires[Deleted User] said:Another day another dollar
Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.2 -
Consider savings and pensions as "paying your future self"
.... I also regularly quote the phrase in my signature below as I have seen so many people make this mistake, usually the ones who have got themselves in financial trouble!
• The rich buy assets.
• The poor only have expenses.
• The middle class buy liabilities they think are assets.6 -
Do you want to work forever and live pay check to pay check?0
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vacheron said:Consider savings and pensions as "paying your future self"
.... I also regularly quote the phrase in my signature below as I have seen so many people make this mistake, usually the ones who have got themselves in financial trouble!
With loans and credit cards, that's spending money not yet earned.Mortgage started 2020, aiming to clear 31/12/2029.0 -
I haven't read the entire thread, but I'm going for 'eat the rich'.0
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"g-strings are for dollar bills"
not what you are thinking. It was said to me by a busker who tucked dollar bills into the top of his guitar.I don't care about your first world problems; I have enough of my own!4
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