How important is money to you?

Olive8585

I was reading a thread on here about problems people are having, and a couple of people stating that having no money was an issue. Other posters told them not to worry about it and that there are far more important things.

Do you agree with that? I certainly don't. I think my life would be miles and miles better if I didn't have to worry so much about money. From small things like being able to eat good food and go out for dinner or being able to treat myself to new clothes/shoes to bigger things like being able to travel more (my passion in life), go back to college and retrain and have the possibility of ever affording my own home. Even my health would be better because I could afford to see private specialists and sort out various issues. I can't think of a single issue that wouldn't be at least made better if I had more money.

What do you think?

Molester Stallone

"mo money, mo money, mo money, can't get pussy with no money, no money, no money!"

1shot16

More material items is always good

masti123

Not important at all....so long as i can feed my children and keep a roof over our heads i can manage

Bubbaclaus

Power is more important than money.

Money is the Mc-mansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after 10 years. Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries.

pockets3d

Money isn't everything, but it sure takes the sting outta being poor.

Stavros Murphy

Pretty damn. When it's there, things are easy, when it isn't, life can be dull. No Mon, No fun. I prefer fun.

The Backwards Man

You can always go to the neighbours for something to eat.

My granny's favourite saying.

Daveysil15

It's important for comfortable living obviously, but not necessary for happiness.

RobbingBandit

Bubbaclaus wrote: »

Power is more important than money.

Money is the Mc-mansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after 10 years. Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries.

Tony Montana 101, First you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the women. :cool:

nc19

People who say 'dont worry about money' tend to be rolling in it, god botherers or hippies.


Money means everything to me. With unlimited money I could give my family every opportunity i never had.This is just one example among a raft of other things money would afford me.

monflat

Yep im in agreement with you.
Ive been extremely broke to having plenty during the boom times to go on nice hols to buy lovely stuff too.
We are just about keeping the head above water now. Both of us work
Two children one on way and i see they are growing out of their clothes real quick.

My oldest hates me goin to work but my explanation to her is i need to go so we can have money to go to nice places. ( day trip here n there nothing exotic !)

I like having my own hard earned cash and would hate not to have my money.
I can buy myself the odd thing and get my hair coloured once every 6 weeks.- i just could not ask my husband to give me money so i could go to hairdressers .
He woud give it but i could not ask !!

Larianne

Very, as I am poor.

applehunter

It gets more important the less I have.

beaner92

Bubbaclaus wrote: »

Power is more important than money.

Money is the Mc-mansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after 10 years. Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries.

-Frank Underwood

the whole year inn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od-uTyD3gFc

"There is no nobility in poverty" pretty much sus it up!

Duff

Seen am I'm in final year in college as a mature student aiming for a masters, VERY!

Sam Kade

Money don't bother me much but my wife keeps complaining that we haven't enough money. She says she doesn't have money for this and that but when it comes to her pack and a half a day smoking habit money is never a problem :mad: Don't ever marry a smoker

billyhead

Both mine and my familys heath take precedence. Money as good as it can be to have it their and available is great but if any of my loved ones were in bad health I would give up every last cent I have if I could to exchange it for their good health.

jamo2oo9

Money can't buy happiness. But it can buy a jetski. You can never be sad when you're on a jetski.

TheMilkyPirate

masti123 wrote: »

Not important at all....so long as i can feed my children and keep a roof over our heads i can manage

And what lets you do that? Money.

Money makes the world go around, I recently got a full time job and the quality of my life has improved drastically. From worrying about where I'm going to get money out of I now spend my days wondering how I'm going to spend it. It's great off on holidays in 6 weeks and I'm finally learning how to drive.

Having no money sucks ass big time.

Olive8585

billyhead wrote: »

Both mine and my familys heath take precedence. Money as good as it can be to have it their and available is great but if any of my loved ones were in bad health I would give up every last cent I have if I could to exchange it for their good health.

My point is that money can greatly help bad health. You can access the best specialists, afford all the medication you need, eat really healthy food all the time (yes fruit and veg are cheap but other stuff isn't), go on holiday to relax, etc. Even health can be helped with money.

Thundering_Sky

Money can't buy happiness but I'd rather cry in my mansion :P

.... But in all seriousness I'm doing my masters and it's quite expensive so yes money is important

Sugar Free

Money is certainly important overall. I'm sure people can argue over great pay/hate job versus crap pay/love job scenarios and all the levels in between but money makes life easier.

I'm at a stage where I'm comfortable for now. Comfortable of course is a relative term depending on the person. For me it means affording all bills (which include owning a car, rent & university loans) saving a reasonable amount each month, having enough disposable income for 1-2 foreign trips per year and a couple of relatively cheap meals/nights out each month.

A few years down the line if kids come that could well change but by then I'll likely have progressed further in my career so we'll see.

biko

As long as you have enough to buy food.
After that money isn't really that important.

padd b1975

It's always nice to have a rainy day fund.

Molester Stallone

biko wrote: »

As long as you have enough to buy food.
After that money isn't really that important.

Roof over your head, heat & clothing too I'd guess

The more you have, the less important it is.

hfallada

Money doesnt bring happiest particularly in Ireland. If you become wealthy even through hard work and determination. You will unfortunately will lose a lot of friends because of jealously. My best friend told me about how his parents did well for themselves, brought the large house in the nice area, big german luxury car, foreign holidays and sent him and his brothers to private schools. Over time people stopped speaking to them. Even his dads best friend brought his son to their house and said "take a look at how the other half live".

There is plenty of people without a pot to piss but love life. Sometimes a simplier life brings happiness.

lufties

Sam Kade wrote: »

Money don't bother me much but my wife keeps complaining that we haven't enough money. She says she doesn't have money for this and that but when it comes to her pack and a half a day smoking habit money is never a problem :mad: Don't ever marry a smoker

gosh how do you even go near her, fag breath is awful.

the groutch

more interested in getting the sugar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti5AkLup1mI

sunflower27

I went from having a well-paid job to redundancy and now back studying. I am happier than I have been in years. I have enough to get by and am looking forward to having more down the line and enjoying treating myself more, but if I was to never have much money again, it is not something that would upset me.

Losing my job has made me see what is important to me in life and money is not one of them.

In fact, I find people driven by money as shallow and transparent.

Teyla Emmagan

Only important in that it takes away worrying about the bills and stuff. Pretty obvious, but a huge amount of anxiety comes in the form of an envelope on the front door step. Take away that, and you're pretty blessed.

But it's not as important as having your physical and mental health, people who love you and lots of interests in life.

Ann Landers

Bubbaclaus wrote: »

Power is more important than money.

Money is the Mc-mansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after 10 years. Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries.

The two are often intrinsically linked though.

Micky Dolenz

Money isn't that important to me but I have enough for the things I want/

lufties

It depends, I recently earned a salary of 7k a month, worked crappy hours and had a lot of stress, bottom line it wasn't worth it. I'm now on a salary of half that and am feeling the pinch. Money to me is very important, I can enjoy the finer things in life, without it I feel like just another common slave to the system.

sunflower27

lufties wrote: »

It depends, I recently earned a salary of 7k a month, worked crappy hours and had a lot of stress, bottom line it wasn't worth it. I'm now on a salary of half that and am feeling the pinch. Money to me is very important, I can enjoy the finer things in life, without it I feel like just another common slave to the system.

I would call someone who lives to work a slave to the system.

I suppose it depends on what you mean by the finer things. I am just as happy eating a pizza at home with my boyfriend as I am eating in a fancy restaurant. I am lucky that way. :pac:

zenno

sunflower27 wrote: »

I would call someone who lives to work a slave to the system.

I suppose it depends on what you mean by the finer things. I am just as happy eating a pizza at home with my boyfriend as I am eating in a fancy restaurant. I am lucky that way. :pac:

But if you haven't got money for a pizza, completely broke, then would money be important to you ?. If you couldn't pay to have a roof over your head, would money be important to you ?. Most folk here seem to have the money for a comfortable enough life, but if you had no money at all... zero. would it be important to people then.

Davarus Walrus

I didn't always think too much about money. I even toyed with lefty politics in college. Money being a concept that held back the workers of the world. Always liked when my Dad fired in money to the current account though.

Now. I really like money. I love the freedom it gives me. I love not having to care about it. I love how working hard and excelling in my career makes more of it for me. How it offers me the choice of living in a better area; doing shít I want to do, eat in restaurants I want to eat in. At some dirty and base level, it allows me to see myself having the type of life I always wanted.

Local-womanizer

People who say money isn't important, while writing a post on their smartphone, to me look very hypocritical.

Money is important, that's a fact. You need it for the most basics of things in life to be fair. It puts a roof over your head, clothes on your back and food on the table.

I suppose what is important is not to get so involved in the pursuit of money that you sacrifice the most important things in you're life, e.g. family, and pizza, I love pizza.....

zenno

Of course money isn't everything, but when it comes to necessities in life, it sure is damn important. So yes, it is very important. For a stress free life, then a nice accumulation of monies would be just great.

If you would like to donate your monies to me, I take mastercard. @zennofake.ie/donate.com

fermanagh_man

I work in sales

So money is everything

Legs.Eleven

Money is important in the sense that I need it for food and bills but I've never had an excessive amount of it and have always had just enough or a bit more and that suits me grand.

Agricola

Personally, the small bit of travelling I've managed to do in the last few years wasnt an option for my parents or any generation of my family before me. It has given me some of the greatest memories, which I'll always remember. Without surplus money, I'd have gone exactly nowhere. If had tonnes of money, I could do lots more travelling. So yeah, its important. I think it very much does buy you happiness.

oldyouth

Money isn't important until you realise you need it to circumvent some dip**** who thinks they can control your life

Davarus Walrus

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

I didn't always think too much about money. I even toyed with lefty politics in college. Money being a concept that held back the workers of the world. Always liked when my Dad fired in money to the current account though.

Now. I really like money. I love the freedom it gives me. I love not having to care about it. I love how working hard and excelling in my career makes more of it for me. How it offers me the choice of living in a better area; doing shít I want to do, eat in restaurants I want to eat in. At some dirty and base level, it allows me to see myself having the type of life I always wanted.

I think we all started as lefties in college ^^

aristotle25

Money is certainly important. It means I can buy a nice 2nd hand car, afford for my girlfriend to stop working in order to raise our child, build up savings and hopefully build a nice house.

Health is number 1 though. I see plenty of people with dire health problems that money can't fix.

Micky Dolenz

Local-womanizer wrote: »

People who say money isn't important, while writing a post on their smartphone, to me look very hypocritical.

Money is important, that's a fact. You need it for the most basics of things in life to be fair. It puts a roof over your head, clothes on your back and food on the table.

I suppose what is important is not to get so involved in the pursuit of money that you sacrifice the most important things in you're life, e.g. family, and pizza, I love pizza.....

Of course it's important.

Some people earn enough money to get by and are happy.

When people say it's not important, they mean it isn't their driving force or the be all and end all.

If you were broke of course it's important.

pragmatic1

Extremely important. When I was younger I had a kinda idealistic view of money and the world. Now that I'm older I realise that money affords you personal freedom and can improve not just your life, but the lives of people you care about.

HotHHead

Of course money is somewhat important but as others have said, your health is your wealth.

Olive8585

sunflower27 wrote: »

I went from having a well-paid job to redundancy and now back studying. I am happier than I have been in years. I have enough to get by and am looking forward to having more down the line and enjoying treating myself more, but if I was to never have much money again, it is not something that would upset me.

Losing my job has made me see what is important to me in life and money is not one of them.

In fact, I find people driven by money as shallow and transparent.

See, this is the kind of attitude I don't get. How is considering money important shallow? You said yourself you had a well-paid job, so I'm sure you were able to set yourself up nicely with that. You might have been made redundant, but you clearly have somewhere to live (did you buy a place when you were well paid?) and enough money and time to study. Both of these things are privileges. If you had never had that well-paid job and had never been able to do anything nice, would you be saying money wasn't important?

Like others have said, it really does seem to be the well-off who think money doesn't matter.

HotHHead wrote: »

Of course money is somewhat important but as others have said, your health is your wealth.

And the less money you have, the less likely you are to be healthy. Because you can't afford organic food, you can't afford to go to the doctor unless it's REALLY serious, you can't afford holidays to relax and de-stress, you might well have to work very long and/or unsociable hours to pay the bills.