Tcepsa's Thoughts

Money is something that I have almost always had a hard time talking about. I think my parents were probably more open with me about sex than they were about money management. For example, my dad tried to teach me how to use Quicken and balance my checkbook and create a budget, but I don't remember us ever sitting down and having "The Talk" about finances (whereas I can remember that we did have "The Talk" about sex). So I had some of the technical knowledge of how to balance a checkbook and keep track of money, and I understood that I wanted to keep it out of the red, but beyond that I didn't have much. And I didn't really have any classes on the subject, either, that I can remember. We might have touched on it a little bit back in Family and Consumer Sciences (about 10 or 11 years ago), and I had one Econ class in college that was just painful for me, and that's about it. To me, investing and things like that were something that I would learn about doing "once I grew up."

It's slowly dawning on me that ( it is time for me to grow up about money )

To that end, I'd like to invite you to comment (anonymous is fine if you're more comfortable with that) on this and subsequent [Money] posts.