NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Spend Smarter This Wedding Season: Travel, Tipping, and More, (featuring The Knot)
05 May 2025
What money lessons did Sean and Elizabeth learn from their moms?
Sean, can I be a little soppy?
Elizabeth, you say soppy, I say sappy.
Either way, we're both crying, so let's do it. Thank you, because I was going to be soppy regardless. So, Mother's Day is around the corner and I get so emotional thinking about all the values that my mom instilled in me and all the values that I get to instill in my son. Mother's Day also had me mulling on the money lessons that I learned over the years watching my mom.
I feel that. My mom and I are really close, and I feel so grateful for all the lessons that she's taught me over the years, financially and otherwise.
Welcome to NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast, where you send us your money questions and we answer them with the help of our genius nerds. I'm Elizabeth Ayola.
And I'm Sean Piles. This episode, we're chatting with a listener about budgeting for a wedding, including who you should tip and how much.
But before that, let's talk about lessons we learned from our moms when it comes to money. Sean, was your mom open with you about her finances growing up?
Yes and no. She taught me the importance of being frugal and how to be creative when money was tight. But I didn't have a deep understanding of our household finances, which is probably a good thing.
My mom didn't tell me much about her personal finances, but she did tell me about the cost of her bills often, with an emphasis on how expensive things were, of course. And she'd add somewhere, that's why you have to work hard.
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