you ask, sneh answers: let's get into financial shame

happy thursday lil bees! this week feels like fall, and a girl is in love. I want to take a trip to Trader Joes in my cozy Patagonia, get all the pumpkin flavored snacks, and watch Halloweentown. I think I forced myself to love pumpkins… but that’s a story for another day…

Besides the immense support, I’ve been receiving a lot of thought provoking messages from you folks around topics I’ve been writing about. I can’t even explain to you how excited I get one of you send me your thoughts or ask me a question or challenge me.

This is one of the biggest reasons I started this newsletter, to create conversation around stigmatized topics like money. To think deeper around our multi-faceted relationships with money, which stem from our circumstances, family, friends, society, etc.

TL;DR: I want to keep this conversation going and share your thoughts with the community in a new, more colloquial series: you ask, sneh answers. Like they say in school, none of your questions or thoughts are dumb, because I guarantee you at least one other person is thinking about this or didn’t even know this is something they need to think about. So let’s get into it.

I got this email from a subscriber this past weekend around my article around financial shame.

TL;DR: they’re asking about the origin of frugal habits, wondering if they stem from a desire to promote philanthropy or from underlying financial shame. More importantly, they’re curious about the potential overlap between your frugal behaviors and a broader desire to look at frugality as a positive value, rather than simply a reflection of personal financial insecurity.