How important is money to you?

sunflower27 · 19-04-2014 09:14PM

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 · 19-04-2014 09:18PM

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 · 19-04-2014 09:21PM

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 · 19-04-2014 09:25PM

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

lufties · 19-04-2014 09:26PM

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 · 19-04-2014 09:31PM

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 · 19-04-2014 09:35PM

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 · 19-04-2014 09:40PM

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 · 19-04-2014 09:45PM

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 · 19-04-2014 09:48PM

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 · 19-04-2014 09:49PM

I work in sales

So money is everything

Legs.Eleven · 19-04-2014 09:53PM

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 · 19-04-2014 09:54PM

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 · 19-04-2014 09:59PM

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

19-04-2014 10:00PM

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 · 19-04-2014 10:02PM

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 · 19-04-2014 10:02PM

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 · 19-04-2014 10:14PM

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 · 19-04-2014 10:15PM

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

Olive8585 · 19-04-2014 11:31PM

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.

ringadingding · 20-04-2014 12:25AM

To me personally in terms of me having it to spend , not really, what is important to me is that I gather a nest to leave the kids.
Be it a step on the property ladder, or be able to fund a business idea.

I mean in no way to spoil them, but I would love if I could help them on their way in 20 years.

So yeah, it's why I go to work and work my ass off every day, it's important to me.

jane82 · 20-04-2014 02:30AM

I buy food beer and rent and nappies and easter eggs.
Thats all the shiny trinkets I need.
I have a bike a guitar internet and a lovely wife and kids.
I look at some people stressing to afford the new iphone or paying back loans for drinking overpriced vodka and fashionable mixer and feel sorry for them.

Money is fine if you earn it for needs. Its a terrible thing if you enslave your life for wants.
Look at my kids smile wider than yours when you have your workaholic ass chasing fads and some minimum wage early school leaver phoning in their upbringing.

Money is for fools.

Sir Arthur Daley · 20-04-2014 02:32AM

jane82 wrote: »

I buy food beer and rent and nappies and easter eggs.

Adult nappies would be handy after an excess of Guinness amd easter eggs for sure.

KyussBishop · 20-04-2014 03:07AM

Money is pretty important to me - but more specifically the way it is created and managed, and who benefits from that (and who doesn't).

Some things can't be unlearned, and when you learn them, everything else pales into insignificance; money - how it functions, how it works, and the consequences of that (something most economists get wrong) - is one of those things (I think it's the most important political topic there is right now).

Can't think of a better way any persons time could be spent, than correcting the problems there - but then the issue with that is: Money

it takes a lot of time/effort (and money, if you're serious about it), and it's not the most stable career choice.

Soft Falling Rain · 20-04-2014 05:31AM

I've no debt and no responsibility to others so from that perspective, I am very lucky. I don't earn much but what I do, after rent, is basically mine. I actually find though that the less I have the better off I am, having too much disposable income stresses me out for some reason. As I said, I've no responsibility, so I'm more likely to blow it on stupid crap.

So yeah, er, as long as I'm carrying over a small amount of savings into the next month I'm happy enough.

Wompa1 · 20-04-2014 06:02AM

The money and material possessions it brings aren't too important to me BUT the security certainly is. I want to earn as much as possible all the time to secure my future so some day I can retire and relax before I check out

20-04-2014 07:40AM

Yea very important. My girlfriend doesn't have to work and study as I can support her.. That alone is such a massive difference.

Menas · 20-04-2014 07:43AM

Important enough to me but not that important.

What I mean is that whilst I would like more spondoolies I am not prepared to worh harder to get it.

Local-womanizer · 20-04-2014 03:19PM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

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.

Thats what I'm saying, but I know people who when hearing someone losing their job for example, say "ah sure, doesn't he have his health, wouldn't worry about not having a job"

I haven't got a problem with someone working their ass off to earn a good bit of money, especially if it is for a short period of time, I would do the same myself. If it puts me in a better position to enjoy life a bit more down the road I see it as a sacrifice worth making, unless of course I dont have a young family its not impacting on. But in my line of work that will happen at some stage.

Electric Sheep · 20-04-2014 03:28PM

oldyouth wrote: »

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

Mammy wouldn't give you money to go out last night?

How important is money to you?

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