Money

Maybe someone can shed some light...I live a good life, take the high road and treat everyone i know and meet with respect. So why has the financial side of my life been so hard. I don't blow all my money on stupid things i just seem to be financially exhausted all the time. Please don't respond with ...Save 10% of every paycheck or invest-blah-blah....Someone please help change a great persons life with some new idea's for a legal financial windfall.

I'll admit, I'm only 16 and don't know a whole lot about money, but I'll try to give you some advice. It may not help with your money problems, but it might help you feel a little bit better. Money is not everything, and I'm sure you know that. Unfortunately it is necessary in our lives. I dunno, all i can say is, everyone goes thru a hard time in their life whether financially or otherwise. just hang in there, and it will get better. "Everything will be alright in the end. If it isn't alright, then it isn't the end." Just keep on living like u r, in the best way u can, and things will pick up. If u get really desperate, u can always do wat my friend does. He bites into a piece of bread and says it looks like a famous person, symbol, etc, then sells it on e-bay. he gets about 10$ each from doing that. dunno if i helped or not, but i tried i suppose. i've never had to work a day in my life and money has never been a primary concern for me, so i'm not sure wat to do with it. good luck tho. there is another way of doing this tho. my mom is in a company, dunno if u have heard of it or not, called Pre Paid Legal. its a job that u work on in ur own terms. no bosses or anything like that, and u can do it anytime anywhere, along with whatever other job u have. it mite help at least. some people have becpme millionaires in about 2 years from doing this, and yeah. i won't bug u with this any more, but if ur interested, u can email me bout it, tho i mite not get back to u rite away cuz i only check my email bout once a week.

It is difficult to judge your situation without seeing your budget, and I really don't want to see it, nor do I believe you want to show it to me.

How much is enough? I had a friend in school who used to go to school barefoot because his parents couldn't afford to buy him shoes. When it got cold, they managed to get an old pair of shoes for him, but one year he was wearing brand new shoes, they were girls shoes though (it never made since to me but for some reason girls shoes were cheaper). He was so proud of his new shoes. Well, we teased him, even I did and I got into the worst of trouble for it because I was his best friend and hurt him the worst.

Anyways - he was happy with what he had even though it wasn't enough, and if you have enough you should be happy with that and if you can't be and you want more, it wouldn't matter how much more you had, it wouldn't be enough. For most of us, happiness is a choice we make.

I imagine you watch Tv, if you do, pay attention to what it is saying to you, it is always telling you that you need more, that you don't have enough. If you just had a big mac, a pepsi, one of those new cars, etc, etc. The media keeps telling us that we need, need, need things that we don't need, and so we want, want, want things that we don't need believing it will make us happy, but unfortunately we can't afford it all.

There I bet is the problem - but then again, I don't know that for sure, I haven't seen your budget.

1) Dump your girlfriend
2) Never eat out
3) When buying things ask if you really need this
4) Mooch as much as possible
5) Never turn down something free

So you can do the numbers 1-5 or you can live a little. Money ain't that important.