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- Nov 27, 2019
What is something you are teaching/have taught yourself how to do? How did you do it and why?
I've used programs and apps to learn other languages because it's interesting to me. Spanish was the only other language taught in my school and I didn't really want to learn it so as soon as I had other ways available to learn I jumped at the chance.
I taught myself that it's okay to spend money and use the things I bought. There are some things you buy that are meant to be used because they won't last forever. Due in part to my parent's ages (and both living in poverty at different times in their lives) my parents thought if you spent money on something it was almost wrong to use it instead of keeping it to use at a better time. This led to things like - me not using a lot of soap or shampoo because I was worried about using it all up too fast which meant the products didn't work as well, or not eating snacks I bought because if I ate them as soon as I bought them it meant I was being too impatient and eventually letting them expire because that was better than being impatient. But I realized that if I bought something that meant to use it, and that using something is different than wasting it.
I also learned how credit/debit cards worked on my own because my parents told me as a kid that those things were only for impatient people and that using sites like eBay just meant getting something "right now" meant I wasn't being patient enough to eventually find the item myself at a later time (and likely, by their reasoning, with a discount. Of course they just had no real understanding of how these things worked but they eventually figured it out like I did.) Now I will say with credit cards I learned the hard way but sometimes that's just how you have to learn. And I realized that credit and debit cards weren't wrong as long as you were responsible with them and that they didn't mean "free money." It was nice not having to use my day off from work to drive around and pay my bills with cash when I could do it online.
I've used programs and apps to learn other languages because it's interesting to me. Spanish was the only other language taught in my school and I didn't really want to learn it so as soon as I had other ways available to learn I jumped at the chance.
I taught myself that it's okay to spend money and use the things I bought. There are some things you buy that are meant to be used because they won't last forever. Due in part to my parent's ages (and both living in poverty at different times in their lives) my parents thought if you spent money on something it was almost wrong to use it instead of keeping it to use at a better time. This led to things like - me not using a lot of soap or shampoo because I was worried about using it all up too fast which meant the products didn't work as well, or not eating snacks I bought because if I ate them as soon as I bought them it meant I was being too impatient and eventually letting them expire because that was better than being impatient. But I realized that if I bought something that meant to use it, and that using something is different than wasting it.
I also learned how credit/debit cards worked on my own because my parents told me as a kid that those things were only for impatient people and that using sites like eBay just meant getting something "right now" meant I wasn't being patient enough to eventually find the item myself at a later time (and likely, by their reasoning, with a discount. Of course they just had no real understanding of how these things worked but they eventually figured it out like I did.) Now I will say with credit cards I learned the hard way but sometimes that's just how you have to learn. And I realized that credit and debit cards weren't wrong as long as you were responsible with them and that they didn't mean "free money." It was nice not having to use my day off from work to drive around and pay my bills with cash when I could do it online.
