Warning: my 9 year old asked why we do the jar thing, and her follow up question wrecked me

Drew Hayes · 2026-09-25T09:30:02.858208+00:00

My daughter saw me drop our last $7 in ones into the grocery jar on the counter Sunday night and asked why we do that instead of just using the card. I said the jar is money we already said yes to, and the card is money we say yes to later. She sat there a second and then asked if the jar was full of all the times I said no to stuff, and honestly, yeah, kind of. It hit different because she was right, the jar is just a stack of small nos, and I had never once thought of it that way. Anyone else explain their budget to a kid and get hit with a question that made them see it new?

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