12 money & values questions
For personal / provocative
- 1
What does money mean to you - security, freedom, status, or something else?
- 2
What is a purchase you regret and have never admitted to?
- 3
If we had to cut our spending in half, what would you protect first?
- 4
What do you believe about money that you learned from watching your family, and does it help us?
- 5
What is a purchase you hid, softened, or delayed telling me about?
- 6
Whose approval do you still want, and how does it shape what we do?
- 7
What would you do with a year off and no money worries, and would you want me there the whole time?
- 8
Which of these would you spend a windfall on first?
- Paying something off
- A trip
- The house
- Saving it
- Giving some away
- 9
What is a thing you happily overpay for, and a thing you refuse to?
- 10
What did money feel like in your house growing up: tight, easy, unspoken?
- 11
What would you want us to do with more money that we do not do now?
- 12
What is a cause or value you would want us to give to, even when it is inconvenient?
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