First things first, having a great saving culture has benefits.
As a young boy I had so many ‘wants’ but my mom could only provide my needs. Don’t get me wrong, I never lacked anything but I wanted so many things like games, big phones, expensive shoes etc but then my mom being a single parent was not bothered about all that as long as I had clothing, shelter, food and going to school that was all for her.

How am I going to get all these luxury things I wanted? Ask my uncles and aunties? My grandma? Well, my uncles always promised to buy things I believed because I knew they could but you know what they never did and they kept on promising and I kept on believing, stupid me right?
My grandma always did her best for me and I am forever grateful but still not the things I wanted. When I entered secondary school, the wants grow the more. I kept managing myself till I realized I should stop expecting things from people. Then developed a saving culture. Out of my little allowance I was collecting daily from my mom, I was putting about 75% of it away. It started as a joke till I got so serious but the bad idea is I was saving the money with my mom and you know how that would go, when it was time for me to collect my money I started hearing stories and I couldn’t collect my complete money but I still continued to save but this time I saved it by myself.

Before she says “I carried you for nine months, did you pay me back”.

When I entered senior secondary school, my daily allowance increased so did my daily savings. It got to a time I was addicted to saving more. It helped control my spending habits because the money was with me throughout and I didn’t spend it. Through my savings I was able to buy myself my 1st blackberry phone that was back in ss2 (2011) and you know how expensive blackberry was. lalasticlala and maynd44

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