abscbn's umagang kay ganda sent sandra tobillo and ariel rodriguez to ask me, "who are more thrifty, men or women?"
i don't think thriftiness has to do with gender. i think that the more influential factors which govern our use, misuse, or abuse of money include:
- genetic predisposition (yes, the personality traits of miserliness, thriftiness, and spendthriftiness can be inherited),
- parental modeling (children copy the attitudes and behaviors their parents have towards money),
- financial status (the more people have, the more they spend).
forced to give an answer, my wild guess is that men spend on more expensive things (high-tech gadgets, sports equipment, vehicles, etc) sporadically, while women buy cheaper things (clothes, make-up, bling-bling, etc.) more frequently.
