12 money & values questions

For personal / provocative

  1. 1

    What does money mean to you - security, freedom, status, or something else?

  2. 2

    What is a purchase you regret and have never admitted to?

  3. 3

    If we had to cut our spending in half, what would you protect first?

  4. 4

    What do you believe about money that you learned from watching your family, and does it help us?

  5. 5

    What is a purchase you hid, softened, or delayed telling me about?

  6. 6

    Whose approval do you still want, and how does it shape what we do?

  7. 7

    What would you do with a year off and no money worries, and would you want me there the whole time?

  8. 8

    Which of these would you spend a windfall on first?

    • Paying something off
    • A trip
    • The house
    • Saving it
    • Giving some away
  9. 9

    What is a thing you happily overpay for, and a thing you refuse to?

  10. 10

    What did money feel like in your house growing up: tight, easy, unspoken?

  11. 11

    What would you want us to do with more money that we do not do now?

  12. 12

    What is a cause or value you would want us to give to, even when it is inconvenient?

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