Hmmm. I do not know my parents' financial situation exactly. An inheritance has never been talked about, and that's fine - it's not something I really want to think about now and I don't think I deserve money from them or should assume anything about the situation. I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of planning around things that will happen when my parents die. But probably I would get some money from them? Or their house?
In terms of talking about it... my parents raised me to pretty much never talk about my financial situation with anyone or accept financial help, because both are Bad Manners and Not Done. Which makes the fact that they're now well off and sometimes give me money that I don't need weird and uncomfortable on a few levels. I remember when they worried about money more and my mom had her coupon stash and this clicker-thing that added up her purchases as she went around the grocery store (I used to bug her so much to let me play with it but I almost never got to hold it) so she wouldn't go over budget, and I guess that's where those lessons came from.
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Date: 2012-04-09 07:02 am (UTC)From:In terms of talking about it... my parents raised me to pretty much never talk about my financial situation with anyone or accept financial help, because both are Bad Manners and Not Done. Which makes the fact that they're now well off and sometimes give me money that I don't need weird and uncomfortable on a few levels. I remember when they worried about money more and my mom had her coupon stash and this clicker-thing that added up her purchases as she went around the grocery store (I used to bug her so much to let me play with it but I almost never got to hold it) so she wouldn't go over budget, and I guess that's where those lessons came from.