It was for me. I freaked out when I was 6 that I was going to end up broke as an adult and started saving money. At that age I decided that (even though I had no interest in cars), I really needed to start saving money for a car because everyone I knew who was 16 talked about nothing but cars. I thought that would be me in just 10 short years, so I started selling my Twinkies at lunch for a quarter, going door-to-door selling homemade bookmarks, greeting cards and stationary, and doing whatever odd jobs I could do at 6. By the time I was 10, I was selling knives to the kids at school and doing yard work around the neighborhood. I bought a brand new Volvo at 15. Then I discovered girls and suddenly money was no longer my main focus. I've been broke ever since!

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