Being part of a family means having to deal with family financials. In “Money: Too Tight to Mention” the author Sinbad shares in a comedic way how he, his five brothers and sisters, and his Mom and Dad, kept their spending costs down. His mom had numerous ways for getting the best bargains, sometimes requiring the help of Sinbad and his siblings. He also shares way that his Dad teaches him and his siblings to save money. One way Sinbad’s Mom frequently saved money was by using a layaway plan at stores. She put a down payment on the final purchase price and then payed something each week until the item was paid off, enabling her to save lots of money over time. Sinbad joked about how lengthy the process of paying off a layaway item could be.
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She would drive around, the night before before the sales happened, scoping out all the sale signs, then have one of her kids hop out the car and read it for her. Sinbad didn’t like estate sales because whenever he would go, his mom would make him try on the clothes she found for him, right out in the open in front of everybody. This embarrassed him so he would jump out the car as his mom was parking to run around gathering clothes that might fit him so he could hide them before his mom found them. Sinbad’s Dad saved money differently than Sinbad’s Mom. Sinbad’s Dad was a fixer-upper/ DIY type of guy. Sinbad’s Mom would broken or beat down at a rummage sale then bring it home to him and he would fix it up as if they had just bought it at the store. He took pride in being able to fix things up making them like-new, providing things that a family at their income level would normally not have. There were times in Sinbad’s life that his Mom’s ways for saving money caused him embarrassment and even made him feel insecure. As Sinbad grew up, he realised that his Mom and Dad’s extreme saving tactics were only used to better the lives of him and his siblings. Without these savvy ways implemented into their lives, Sinbad and his siblings wouldn’t have had as nice of things that they had. I bet Sinbad and his siblings are great at money management now a
She would drive around, the night before before the sales happened, scoping out all the sale signs, then have one of her kids hop out the car and read it for her. Sinbad didn’t like estate sales because whenever he would go, his mom would make him try on the clothes she found for him, right out in the open in front of everybody. This embarrassed him so he would jump out the car as his mom was parking to run around gathering clothes that might fit him so he could hide them before his mom found them. Sinbad’s Dad saved money differently than Sinbad’s Mom. Sinbad’s Dad was a fixer-upper/ DIY type of guy. Sinbad’s Mom would broken or beat down at a rummage sale then bring it home to him and he would fix it up as if they had just bought it at the store. He took pride in being able to fix things up making them like-new, providing things that a family at their income level would normally not have. There were times in Sinbad’s life that his Mom’s ways for saving money caused him embarrassment and even made him feel insecure. As Sinbad grew up, he realised that his Mom and Dad’s extreme saving tactics were only used to better the lives of him and his siblings. Without these savvy ways implemented into their lives, Sinbad and his siblings wouldn’t have had as nice of things that they had. I bet Sinbad and his siblings are great at money management now a