Since I wrote that spenders are messy it is only fair that I pick on savers too. This is part of having FUN managing money TOGETHER – recognizing the funny things about each others differences and not taking everything so seriously.
But seriously 🙂 , Savers Are Nerdy. Think about it and you have to agree. Keep in mind I am a saver, but I’m not as nerdy as some thanks only to the influence of my lovely wife. Here is a list of 10 things to support my statement that savers are nerdy.
Savers are Nerdy because:
- They are good at math, some even love math.
- They enjoy working on spreadsheets.
- They are likely engineers or have done an engineer type of job.
- Their clothes are out of date by 5 years.
- They prefer PC over Mac (partly because they’re a third of the cost of Mac).
- They know their bank balances, as in they know them at all times.
- They know the exact amount of every household bill every month.
- They say “That’s not in the budget” no matter how uncool it is in any moment.
- They would eat cold rice and beans at home alone in the dark every night to save.
- They flip they junk when spenders misbehave. (terminology courtesy of a friend on UrbanDictionary.com – flip your junk)
I am a recovering saver. My wife is a recovering spender. Compromise and working together is a beautiful thing. Every time Shawna and I are playfully picking on each other about our quirky differences she tells me “you’d miss it if I was gone”. Kinda doom and gloom – right. But funny nonetheless. Well spenders let me tell you something about us savers’ quirks – “you’d miss having money if we were gone”. Ok, that’s not very funny. Number 11 reason savers are nerdy – we’re not very funny.
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