Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

Do they expect you to give them money in some roundabout way?

My mom knows I do really well. One of my nieces told me she knew I was rich. Rich being relative to them of course. Nobody has had the gall to ask me for anything but I guess that day is coming. I gave all of my nieces and nephews a silver eagle 1 oz coin for Xmas along with their gifts though. Mainly because I think its cooler than giving them money.

Khane said:

Everyone talks about money constantly. People pretend its taboo yet they always talk about it, mostly in roundabout ways. How much someone's house costs, or car, or what a job pays, or their favorite athlete's contract, or prize purses. They talk about the latest investing craze and how someone they heard about that knows someone made tons of money on a $100 trade. They talk about how expensive trips or entertainment or food is.

But the best way to get people to stop talking about money, or bothering you about it, is by having an honest, sincere conversation about passive investing. It will either bore them so much they walk away (nobody wants things to take a while) or make them feel inadequate enough to not want to talk about it anymore (everyone wants to believe they dont do it because its out of their reach, but when they get told it isn't they get upset). Unless they are also smart and passively invest. Then they just agree and the conversation wanes because what else is their to say other than "Agreed".

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I'm in the bucket with Onoes in terms of how well financially the rest of my family is doing relative to them having figured out that I'm doing pretty well relative to them.

I only have one relative who even skirts around wanting to borrow money and asking, that's my brother in law. But one of the recent times he skirted too close to it I gave him a rundown of how I saw his finances from the outside and he got awfully self conscious about stuff and backed off. This dude has literally spent close to 5 years trying through the courts to get put on social security disability because of his "horrible COPD", from years of being a pack and a half a day smoker. Then complains about how little his SSDI monthly check will be after bragging throughout his 20's and 30's about how he did all his work under the table so the government wouldn't know how much he made. He FINALLY gets on SSDI and is gifted something like a 4 year back payment to cover the previous 4 years. Get's it all at once. And within 2 months is talking about how he can't do things until his monthly SSDI check hits because he's tapped. #SMH I laid out this picture is moderately grueling details before him and told him if he ever wanted some budget making and financial planning advice to let me know and he hushed up.