Money Etiquette

[fimbulwinter]

Simple question:

How do you handle money questions (not requests) from your family? Your Friends?

I'm not looking for advice for anything going on in my life, I'd just like to get a discussion going here and maybe some of the people with lots of experience can throw in a few words.

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[MTBlue]

For better or worse, I try to be dead honest, but I usually try to focus on > than a month time frame. The short term roller coaster which is poker is hard to explain to people.

[arod15]

give them advice as i see best fit. Somtiems not even what i do. As i do not always practice what i preach....

[CanKid]

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How do you handle money questions (not requests) from your family? Your Friends?

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honestly

[fsuplayer]

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How do you handle money questions (not requests) from your family? Your Friends?

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honestly

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yep. well, except for the soon-to-be inlaws.

I have a few friends with whom I'm totally honest, because they are rather well off, and I know their questions are simple curiousity. Other friends get told it isn't any of their goddamned business, and that's generally what my family hears also. Except for my dad, he was a longtime professional blackjack player, so he understands variance/sums of money involved.

My girlfriend now realises she almost never wants to know the answer to "How much...?" so she doesn't ask, which is good.

[RikaKazak]

GF= honest
friend that plays poker= honest
friends that don't understand poker= just belive me when I say I make more than you ever will, and stop asking me how much, I'm 21 and own a house, WHAT DO YOU THINK??

[KaBoom]

I've been playing for almost 3 years and not even once has my wife asked me how I'm doing. I guess she has noticed that I'm paying the bills on time so I can't be losing (atleast much [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] )We're taking a 4th trip abroad in a year so it's getting quite obvious extra income is coming in from somewhere cause my business analyst salary really sucks and she knows that.

I don't tell my friends either. If they ask I say sometimes I win, sometimes I lose. Which is the truth.

[Nigel]

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I've been playing for almost 3 years and not even once has my wife asked me how I'm doing.

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That's some weird, wacky stuff.

[Apathy]

recently I have been telling people, but I think I am going to stop for the most part.

Some people may get jealous, and most don't understand the swings involved.

I can handle winning and losing 10k in a day, but most others don't understand that part of it.