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Child saves family: saving not hoarding

Saving not hoarding: Child saves Family My personal story about money; how a child that was saving or hoarding and a hungry family. As most of you know I grew up poor. I lived a hard life and my family of seven brothers and sisters and my single mother. It was obvious to most – just by looking at us, that we were struggling and at best we were barely making due. Poverty was a constant in my home and in the neighborhood that we lived in. I remember this one time when I was a very young boy, how in my innocent desire for wealth (to have money) and to escape from the constant emotional hardship of poverty – I started stealing coins from my mother’s purse. Trust me when I say that it was not out of malice, though I clearly understood that I was doing something wrong, my childish intension was simply to have money to save. It all started innocently enough. The first time it happened was when I noticed that my mother was leaving some change in a bowl near her bed. I had just finishe