P. J. Tucker Quotes

If you go and stop people at a supermarket and ask them for their receipt and say, 'Hey how much did you just spend?' middle class shoppers have no idea. The poor know what they just spent.

I'm very careful. I think about everything. Some people go, 'Oh, I went out and bought something and didn't realise how much it was,' but there's no such thing with me. I always think about the future because I never want to go backwards.

Since having kids, I am more careful about saving rather than splurging. I used to spend all my money on trainers and high heels that I couldn't walk in.

Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

I don't want to tell you what to buy. I just want to help you think about why you're buying it.

I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.

You have to teach children about money intentionally - create teachable moments.

I'm not a big shopper.

One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not.

For me personally, I cannot spend a certain amount of money on anything but shoes, a coat, a purse, and that's it. I could never spend more than $1K on a sweater. I'm only going to wear it twice. But you go online, and you see incredibly expensive sweaters selling out constantly.

I'm very good when people dress me. But I find it difficult to spend a lot of money on clothes.

I don't really shop a lot, just cause I'd rather not spend my money on clothes.

I pretty much lived movie to movie in my younger years because I loved spending money, and I didn't really have a concept of 'assets,' but as I got a little older, I bought art.

The amount of money currently in your bank account is a fact. The amount you spend today is a choice. And the way you reconcile both is through clarity.

You cannot control the spending habits of people. It is a free society, after all, and people should have right to spend their money as they wish.

I spend a lot of money on shoes and barely any on clothes.

Just make sure that you know what's going on with your money and you know where you money is coming from and how much is coming out and going in.

I hope I haven't spent more than $1,000 on mugs.

I have an allowance for clothes and stuff.

Even if you have a lot of money, you may not want to spend a lot of it on clothes.

I made $2.58 an hour, and I spent it all on clothes.

The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that's very good. My mother has learned how to spend money.

I used to say, ‘Things cost too much.’ Then my teacher straightened me out on that by saying, ‘The problem isn’t that things cost too much. The problem is that you can’t afford it.’ That’s when I finally understood that the problem wasn’t ‘it’-the problem was ‘me.’

That’s kind of where all my money goes. I’m going to be a very broke girl with a really great wardrobe.