Pay Day with Mariam Mohammed: 'We share our money from the first dollar'

The ABC's new column where we ask Australians the money questions we don't like to talk about. For Pay Day, Mariam reveals the very different lessons she learned about money from her parents, the shame she felt about living in poverty and skipping meals, and why there's no such thing as a guilty splurge. Pay Day with Emma McCaskill Photo shows Emma sits on a couch in her home Emma McCaskill spills the tea on secret bank accounts, splurging on takeout and what she's saving for. As such, I mostly heard Abu talk about money — how expensive things were getting, mehengai reducing our purchasing power, how Ami was over-spending, the bills were getting out of hand. And I travelled on to other places, converting the cash along the way — losing a little bit of that money every time!