On Money Diaries, a NT researcher who goes camping two weekends in a row and starts playing hockey again for the first time in years.
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Today, we meet a diarist living in the Northern Territory who goes camping two weekends in a row, spends $112 on new flowers for her verandah and starts playing hockey again for the first time in years.: $178,700 .: $7000 remaining on a personal loan obtained to pay for a new car last year. I’m paying off more than the mandatory repayments and hope to have this gone by the end of the year.
Not really. Looking back, there were definitely financial hardships growing up but we were always sheltered from them and food was always on the table. We mostly went on holidays every summer and my parents were able to scrounge to send us to boarding school for three years each.
So I would say we were firmly working class but I also acknowledge that we still had privilege not necessarily afforded to everyone. I vaguely remember some lessons about budgeting our money as children but I was always hopeless at it and couldn’t grasp the concept of delayed gratification . I don’t think my parents were especially financially literate outside of budgeting; there was certainly never talk of investing money or growing wealth.
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