Do you obsess over your finances?

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I do. There is practically not a DAY goes by that I don't look over my spending. (My older sisters doesn't like it) but I want to have NO debt LOL! I'm paying my bills atleast although I don't much money in. I was curious if other WP members do this. (I think I need to stay home and not go anywhere!! !) LOL!

Yes I do it constantly!! ! I am in no debt which is great!!

yes but only because my situation makes it necessary.

Before my epilepsy returned I glanced over my bank statement maybe once a month and rarely thought twice about buying what I wanted (but then i'm generally somewhat frugal so its not like I was ever going on a spending mission)

Cool my family have my bank account and so when I saw money taken/put back I was worried LOL! (I emailed my sister on the issue) it's no big deal they ARE family still though LOL! I have a PS3 on a Store card no interest until Dec.2009!! YA! Other than that I mostly pay my bills off every month.

I do. It's terrible. Especially lately.

I spend a ton of time trying to figure out various projections of how my finances will either improve or worsen, mostly due to a combination of failed business ventures and a stupid promotion I took at work which actually turned out to lead to less pay for more work instead of the opposite, which was the way it was originally presented (damn me for being naive and ignorant). I haven't updated my post in a while, but I intend to whenever I can find the motivation to do so. Depression sucks. http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp1645911.html

Yes, I do and I like it. It is like a game to me. It makes me feel better about myself that I can use my abilities in some sort of positive way.

come to think of it i shoulda paid next months rent with the credit card that i had.. but i cut it in two down with debt!

I keep track of my finances, as I want to be sure I have enough in my account so I don't bounce checks or go into debt.

well i don't have to be worried about going into debt, but when in between two postdoc positions, it often happens that i am without income for some time, so i need to have some money saved to survive this period. been like this for 7 months before, it's not like you can start working as soon as you are available, the fundings have their own lives.

i used to have an excel table where i put in my everyday expenses and it showed me automatically whether my savings were increasing or decreasing. i was obsessed byt watching the number increasing so i never bought any chocolate or anything that was not necessary. i had to stop doing that, it was not healthy and i loved chocolate.

Yes. It is one of our main stress factors.

Money was invented to stress out the human species:(

Yes, I always did...that was, before I married someone who had a child from his previous marriage. Before that, I had all my bills paid in full always, never any debt, except my house. That was about 8 years ago...Back then, I had a house and paid more in mortage per month than I do in our crappy apartment nowadays...It is a constant source of stress for me, since I don't have much control everytime that crazy witch decides she wants to go on vacation and come after us...What little I have left, not much, I probably owe in debt anyway...sigh...but I'm now afraid to pay off my debt because if I do, I might not have enough money to feed our child...He has autism, speech therapy, etc...and somehow the governent expects him to live off 2% of what his daughter with no disabilities, medical conditions does...and we'll be supporting her until she's 21 since she's a lazy girl, that is only interested in messing around with boys and not school...and keeps failing...

Oops, sorry...yes, money is a major stress factor in my life...

my whole life has been wondering from where the next (frank) euro will come in

nope....i can't seem to worry about things of the sort, things that are suppose to "matter". financial, insurance, medical...etc... they annoy me but i don't worry about them...

not all the time, sometimes i do.
mainly i just want to be in control of them
i have been doing a tafe course which i have been paying for (almost done)
i have an investment thing going (dads idea)

no debt to speak of