Your Personal, Complicated Relationship with Money
When I was in seventh grade, I went shopping with a friend and her brother. They were from an affluent family and encouraged me to buy a pair of Guess jeans even though the Guess jeans were much more money than anything my family normally bought. I had been earning my own money as the most-sought-after neighborhood babysitter, so I had enough money to buy the jeans. Upon returning home, I proudly shared my purchase, to which my mom took one look at the price tag and made it clear that she thought I had paid way too much […]
