Money's a funny old thing. We spend our childhoods being oblivious to the value of it, our teenage years worrying how we're going to make it, and our adulthood spending it while trying to make sensible my-accountant-would-be-proud decisions. They say money can't buy you happiness (and I'm a firm believer that that's true,) but it can buy you freedom and empowerment to make the choices you want - and that's why I've always been driven to achieve. My relationship with money as a child wasn't the healthiest, mainly driven by the fact my mum had every credit and store card that was offered to her and didn't really know how to stop spending; we were a working class family who, although not exactly frivolous, probably lived a little beyond our means (and on credit.) Although I wasn't particularly aware of it as a child, in retrospect I know I was never taught how to tackle money - and I certainly wasn't taught how to save it.
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