[miclason]

Sadly enough and strangely enough, I was...I started saving money for a "brand new" car when I was 12...I ended up using the money as downpayment for the apartment when my (now ex) husband and I got married...- I asked for it back now that we sold the apartment, and it went into paying debts! - ...I worked at my parents store since the age of 10 - should have seen the customers' faces when they saw ME at the register!!...LOL! It was an ancient thing and, we had a scale and one of those accounting machines (contometro) next to it, so I would weigh the merchandise, find the price on a list, do the math in the contometro (2lb X $0.50, say) and then input that in my cash register...LOL! - I saved half my money from that...once I started the university, I had more spare time and I started giving English lessons...I didn't save as much, but, I did buy my own gas and my own books for the uni, so my parents (my grandma, actually) paid only for tuition...Later on, when I started working, I saved a fixed amount each payday...I used to save to buy the things that I wanted...unfortunately, bad habits are easy to acquire...ex-hubby was of the mind that why save, if you could just put it into your cc and pay it back in X amount of months (he was disciplined enough to comply with his schedule, though, so if he said he was going to pay for something in 3 months, he did)