I HATE Greedy people, but I became one ~!?

Question

HELP ME.... I hated Greedy people so much, I used to know a family who became to be a good friends of me, but only thing was that they were unbelievably greedy. Like to pick up a penny on ground and keep it on bank jar, took restaurant hand out ketchup salt pepper to refill the bottles they have at home, I asked them to watch for my mails while I was out of town, and they were going to charge me for it, etc....THIS, I finally had to say something to them. And now we are no longer friends. But I have been noticing I started to THINK and ACT like them, like try to save money more obsessively or HATE to buy anything, HATE to take friends for treat, HATE to give out gift....sort of thing. I was NEVER used to be like that, I was NORMAL. I have TERRIBLE anxiety over this, and ANXIETY kicks in when I try to spend money, or on some one (especially).

Answer 1

I don't quite understand your dilemma, but I will tell you this.  100 pennies make a dollar, and 10,000 pennies make $100, and 100,000,000 pennies makes $1 million dollars.  There is a reason people are millionaires.  They think like this.  There is nothing wrong with you not being ridiculous with your money. But hoarding it is not respectful of it either. Do not hoard. Save.  However, do not be ridiculous either.  Find a happy medium.  And bottom line:  Understand how much you make an hour and understand when you buy something how many hours you have to work to pay for it.  In other words, I make $25 and hour, but those jeans cost $75.  Do I really want to work 3 hours to buy a pair of jeans?