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Happy to be here again, with great possibilities like this to express ourselves freely, remember and transmit emotions. I join this new challenge from @rutablockchain on Leofinance; where they invite us to remember our financial beginnings, money in our childhood. Where does the relationship we have with that flow called money come from. And as we see it today, because the Being as it obtains life learning must be molding it to its needs.
It is not fair for our parents, to spend a lifetime saying, ¨That is what I saw at home¨ ¨ or it was what you taught me¨. For a while while you're a teenager it can be! Later, as you mature, you yourself are responsible for breaking with traditions, beliefs and customs that do not add positively to you; to move towards your happiness.
Romper con creencias incluye aquellas que no te llevan camino a la abundancia y a la prosperidad. Enfocarte en lo que deseas, conocer y reconocerte desde tu potencial, lograr para alcanzar tu prosperidad y paz.
Breaking beliefs includes those that do not lead you to abundance and prosperity. Focus on what you want, know and recognize yourself from your potential, achieve to achieve your prosperity and peace.
El primer recuerdo que me viene a la mente es mi alcancía del Banco Venezuela, la azul con blanco. Yo tenía una y mi hermano otra.
The first memory that comes to mind is my Banco Venezuela piggy bank, the blue one with white. I had one and my brother another. Banco Unión, which was the first one I had to save.
The money that we saved there was the result of saving a passage for the week, because my brother and I walked to school to save the passage. Another way was we accompanied my mother to the market and she found an offer and the result of the coins was to keep in the piggy bank. Also on Sundays my dad would buy some trinkets for everyone, and he would ask you: can you buy the trinket or will I give you the coins? And right there you made a big decision as a child.
Usábamos esa alcancía porque nuestros padres tenían cuenta de ahorro en ese banco, y en algún momento del año les daban esas alcancía para los hijos.
We used that piggy bank because our parents had a savings account in that bank, and at some point of the year they would give those piggy banks for their children.
Then we had the Union bank piggy bank. It had a ¨U¨ shape and was brown with red. After a while, we would take that same piggy bank to the bank and there it would be opened, apparently it was beneficial for them to bring those coins so that they could exchange them for bills.
Another way to save at home that I remember is that my mother was a seamstress, and she bought the fabric to make clothes, school uniforms and even the premieres. On some occasions it was somewhat uncomfortable because since we are three females and one male; Then the three females had clothes with the very same fabric on December 24 or 31; which happened very often. Therefore we did not wear many jeans of any brand. Today I understand that it was a way to save on clothing.
Food was always very restricted at home, my father was a brassier, he traveled constantly to find workshops to work; and my mother at home didn't have much sewing either. For this reason, when it came to cooking, everything was well measured, even the only one who cooked was my mother; she said I don't want anything to burn or lose. So my sisters and I learned to cook already when we left home to live elsewhere.
When I was almost a teenager of about 13 years, I learned with a friend to do some crafts; I clearly remember that we made ornaments to stick on refrigerators and sold them at low costs; That time was fun, we went out to buy felt and things to decorate; it was our first small business. The first ornaments we made were clinejas or rope braids, which were topped with kitchen ornaments. They were sold among the residents of the building.
Later, when I was 17 years old and was almost about to graduate from high school, I learned to make cakes and thanks to those constant sales I had a passage to my university. Towards chocolate cakes, pancakes, and cheese cakes. For a time I also sold plain cookies; Those were carried everywhere to sell. I remember that one December a neighbor loaned me many Christmas molds and I sold many cookies.
Ya a partir de mis 18 años trabaje en diferentes lugares y hasta ahora esas han sido mis fuentes de ingreso.
From the age of 18 I worked in different places and until now those have been my sources of income.
I always teach my children the value of saving, although for some time we no longer have a piggy bank. It is important "at least for me" to differentiate between meanness and thrift, between gathering to get something you want and being happy with it. Because at some point you must begin to gather for your own home and comfort; That big step should bring you happiness and not great worries about acquiring debt!
Daily coexistence allows us to teach our children, how little by little life is leading us towards prosperity when we live from love for prosperity. Money is essential and brings us well-being, we must not encourage the rejection of money among children; with expressions like ¨ interested, profiteer, opportunist¨. Our work has value and therefore we must receive remuneration that makes our lives rewarding.
Espero te agradara mi historia!. Yo lo disfruté!
I hope you like my story! I enjoyed it!