The friend who is always broke
Posted
Nov 12 2007, 08:54 AM
by
Karen Datko
We all know someone like "S," a friend of Vixen on a Budget. S waitresses and lives with her parents (her older brother and his fiance also live at home). Her only bills are car insurance and her cell phone. Yet she complains that she never has any money. To fill in the picture, we might add that S often is late for work, and calls in sick when she's not. She parties with friends three times a week and always has money for new clothes. Get the picture here? Does her behavior (and that of her parents) irritate you? What's the problem here? asks Vixen, who waitresses at the same restaurant, has her own place, a car payment and goes to school full time. "We are different people because of the way our parent's have raised us," Vixen writes, encouraging parents to teach their children the value of money.
Vixen has tried to school her friend about ways to budget and save. It's not working so far. S showed up for work with a new purse and jacket she bought for $55, about half price, she gushed. "It's going to be a long road for her," Vixen observed.
