Dealing with my family’s finances during the pandemic
Photo by Josh Appel on Unsplash Growing up, I considered myself poor. Although we had a roof over our heads, three meals a day, and enough clothes to get by, we could not pay the mortgage, and our school tuition payments were always late. There was also a time when my parents had no jobs, my father had to settle for direct selling. We were one of those in an endless cycle of debt, where the only way to pay one is to borrow from another. My parents were stuck in this habit even after all of us children graduated and had jobs. When I started having money problems of my own and saw how lacking my financial education was, I tried learning how to manage my income. I was lucky enough to have friends who shared their self-help books and taught me some of the basics of saving and investing. But passing this knowledge on to my parents was another mountain to climb, especially when they thought it was none of my business. So started this mission to convince them---it was the only way to protect
