Remember when money did grow on trees? $5 felt like a fortune, and $100 was like being a millionaire (at least, I imagine that's what millionaires feel like). When I was a kid, if mum wouldn't buy me something, it was because she was mean, it never occured to me that she didn't have the money.

Seeing my weekly wage budgeted down to the dollar, is utterly depressing. To work all week and then have to spend my hard earned cash on bills and groceries feels like a battle lost. It is the thing I miss most about being a child, that money was always there, and it was nothing to worry about.