I'd never really thought about it before, but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it.

I think I'm fairly good with money, but I've developed some strange tics - in shops I don't like to go to the counter unless I've got at least two things to buy. If I'm walking around with just one thing in my hand I'll put it back and wait a few weeks because that doesn't seem like a proper purchase.

Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish.

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