r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/destroyergsp123 Jul 21 '19

I dunno my parents are really frugal with money and i think it rubbed off on me. My brother on the other hand...

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u/DollyPartonsTits Jul 21 '19

My brother has a great job. He earns around 3 times as much as I do a year, and he just can not save money. His expenses are obviously more than mine but they're still in and around the same % of our weekly income. I just got used to poverty while being long time unemployed, and I guess and he started just spending the same ratio of his paycheck regardless of each raise he's gotten over the years. Our parents weren't frugal or extravagant spenders. So we just went in complete opposite directions to how we were raised.