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Do you lie about your financial wealth to your friends?
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
United States
August 9, 2007 7:58pm CST
On tonight's episode of Big Brother we found out that one of the contestants owned four businesses and was very well off financially. She had hidden the truth from the other contestants because she didn't want them to evict her prematurely. And, it made me wonder, do other people hide the truth about their own financial status from friends and people around them?
In my case, I am fairly open with friends, when it comes to the good and bad financial matters that are going on in my life. Most of my friends know when things are going well financially for my family and when things are not so well. If my spouse loses his job, my best friends are usually the first people that I tell! So, how about you? Are you truthful with your friends about your financial situation? Are you more likely to brag about your financial success? Or, hide the truth so that your friends don't get jealous?
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@cefaz_21 (2596)
• Philippines
10 Aug 07
Fortunately or unfortunately, I have no financial wealth to hide..or lie about. If I'm wealthy I'm not gonna hide it..why would I?
But of course, though I am not rich, I find it hard to divulge my financial situations to friends, only to those whom I am very close to.
Don't want everyone to know I have loads of debts..or else they wouldn't lend me anymore. LOL
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@rarrimalion (674)
• United States
10 Aug 07
lol what wealth?
i'm broke, just graduated from college and every entry level job pays peanuts so I'm pretty broke. I'm honest with my friends about what I make, and so are they with me. None of us are very rich...we're all financially struggling 20-somethings!
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@KrisNY (7590)
• United States
13 Aug 07
I don’t lie about my finances- However I don’t think it is my friends business about a lot of them- Sure they all know that we all make about the same about of money- it’s good enough at that- I would have no reason for lying about it- I know some people who try to make their other friends think they have more than they do- that is so fake to me!
@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
14 Aug 07
My financial status is no ones business really and my friends and family don't actually ask me because its personal and i don't ask them either. I prefer to keep it to ourselves and depending on who asks, I may say something or else I may not.
@shinjiao (1457)
• China
10 Aug 07
I don't think it is necessary to tell my financial wealth to my friends.Though I consider my friends as the important people in my life,but I don't think they need to know my financial wealth.
If they need financial help and ask me,90% I will help them.However,financial wealth,I think this topic is too private and now my friends have not asked me how much wealth I have.Moreover,I won't answer this question.
@cutepenguin (6431)
• Canada
10 Aug 07
I am very truthful, mostly because we are broke. My friends are very understanding and usually suggest things we can do that don't cost money, like going to the beach, going hiking, the free day at the Art Gallery, that sort of thing. We have potluck dinners and lunches, so we can meet up for meals and I can just cook something instead of having to pay for a meal at a restaurant.
I feel badly sometimes because it restricts what my friends can do, too, but they have other friends and do stuff that costs money with them. I still go shopping and stuff with my friends, I just don't buy anything.
@Marie2473 (8512)
• Sweden
10 Aug 07
Well, all my friends know my financial status since I owe it all to the guy who ruined my life =(
I am fighting every day and I will be better in a few montsh since my parents are going to help me out with a loan to pay it all off. That way i will not have to pay all the interest anymore...
I do not see any point in hiding it - however if I was rich I think i would be more careful of whom I told!
@carlaabt (3504)
• United States
10 Aug 07
I'm not secretive about it, but I don't go around talking about it to just anyone either. I discuss money matters with my husband of course, and a lot of times with my little sister.
Most of our friends know about where we stand financially, because most of our friends are also military. They know exactly how much money my husband makes, and they know that I don't make much since I work at home, and only a few hours a week. I guess we do have a few friends that don't realize just how much our car payment is or that we are still making payments on student loans, but they could still make a pretty good rough estimate of where we stand financially.
@LittleMel (8742)
• Canada
10 Aug 07
there has never been a time in my life that I win lottery, and yes this is very obvious to others. I don't feel the need to sound rich when I am not, I think that will make tax people go after me rather than leave me alone. Right now I have a small shop people think I'm rich, they have no idea how hard it is to deal with people who don't want to pay for what they want me to provide. In the end it all goes down to life struggles, I won't brag it even if I win it and I haven't won it anyway.
@gr8life (6251)
• Malaysia
10 Aug 07
Hello beautyqueen26,
That is one personal matter that I won't talk with strangers or friends or even my family members. I prefer to keep my financial status to myself. Whether it is good or bad, it is only me who knows it.
Before getting married, I didn't even share about my financial status with my husband. He felt that I was a secretive too much that time. But after getting married, I sat and discussed with him and told him whatever he needs to know. Right now, he is the only person who knows every single details of my financial matter. He even knows my pin number and account number to all my bank accounts, which banks I have an account with and how much money I really have right now. Anyway, he shares his financial matter with me too *smiles*
@mistissa (1349)
• Netherlands
10 Aug 07
I don't lie about my financial wealth, but I do think it is none of anybody's business. I keep it private, and if we ever talk about it, I will also say it is private.
@jackal2708 (1)
• China
10 Aug 07
yes,I always don't my financial wealth to my friends.Because I think financial wealth is my private thing.
@seph8ph (22)
• Philippines
10 Aug 07
well it really depends, if your friends are well-off and you are not or if your friends are not well-off and you are..in both cases you are more at risk of concealing the truth. for the former because you want to belong and you want to enjoy the things they enjoy, and for the latter because you have really good friends which you want to keep but you don't want to be abused, such is the case of richie rich in the movie.
@rogue13xmen13 (14403)
• United States
10 Aug 07
I tell them that I am not rich, and I am not poor. I tell them that when I have money I have it, and when I do not have it I do not have it. People except either accept who I am, or they do not.
@zaichn (319)
• Philippines
10 Aug 07
Well.. It's not good to lie to your friends but with that case, maybe some friends who I don't trust. I mean, I'll just keep my financial wealth or even status private. I don't really like to brag, I'm not even wealthy enough to brag anything. If ever I'm wealthy, I'll just lay low. And if some friends of mine want help particularly with financial problems, then definitely I can help them in some ways. And hiding the truth doesnt really prove that your not making them jealous, for me.. its just a way to prove if your so called friend is real if he/she doesnt make you his/her friend just because you have money or they need your help in some ways..
@wondericequeen (7876)
• Hong Kong
10 Aug 07
No I don't lie about my financial status with my best friends, we know each other's financial status and we complained to each other when bad times arise. But I don't talk to those people whom are not close friends with me at all about financial status as I regard that matter is really private. I don't brag about financial success. If I earn some extra few bucks in the stock market, I would share it honestly with my close friends and buy them something good to eat to share the joy. It's because I know my best buddies too well that they wouldn't be jealous of me and we are always ready to share with each other.
@wonderful1 (2075)
• China
10 Aug 07
I can't tell my friends my real financial state when I am poor or rich. I don't talk about our financial things, because we are in different living standard, then some of my friends will be ashamed and others will be proud.
Now I lose my job, then I am in trouble of lacking of money, but I live in a better life when I have a job, some of my friends don't go shopping with me, because they think I can't go because of lack of money. I feel very upset, they are leaving me.
@archer1811 (1098)
• Philippines
10 Aug 07
Well in our part, everything that happens in my family I let my friends and other relatives know about this, wether we are in good or bad financial status, they are nothing to do with us at least we are honest to them, my friends know my financial status and even their financial status to, we always discuss it, all the payments that we have to and all the expenses that we have, we are just living in a very small world like my friends lives in the subdivision that my husband live and we are also officemates so no secrets at all when it comes to financial status, we also used to help each other whenever someone needs it.
