“I didn’t like it as a kid, but I thank my dad constantly for it now, as an adult. I would get a birthday card with a twenty or something in it.”

“My dad would take out his wallet, put the twenty in and take out two fives and a ten. He would then give me one of the fives, to spend however I wanted. Then he opened a savings account (that I could watch grow over the years) and he’d put the remaining $15 in it. He taught me to put away whatever you could whenever possible. I’ve been living a relatively comfortable adult life for over a decade now based off that simple lesson. I plan on teaching my son the same once he gets old enough to understand.”