Replies to '09/15 Money Matters: Surviving the Crisis'

Quote From: firstsis58

 We have told our daughter for years to watch her money, now she is married with 2 young boys and heaven help us she married someone who, like her, hasn't learned to live within his means or save.  He has had 6 sales jobs in 5 yrs and is currently looking for a new one!  He looks at how much he can make, and expects to make it in the first year, and when he doesn't he leaves!  They have filed for bankruptcy, and may lose the house they bought a yr ago.  While I don't feel particularly sorry for them, I do feel sorry for the boys.  I had to pay an outragous daycare bill from last yr so that my grandson could go to pre-school.  I  paid it because he should not suffer for his parent's shortsightedness.  My daughter has a good job with a promising future, but she can't do it alone, and now that her husband can collect uneployment she is aftraid that he will do nothing until it runs out.  This generation is so all about themselves they fail to see beyond next week.  Eating out used to be a special occasion, but anymore it is the norm.   While I realize that not every money crisis is from careless spending, there are many many people who just never paid any attention to where their money was going.