Find your money personality
By Bankrate.com

Each person tends to fit into one of the following money personalities. Which one best describes you?

 

If you ....	You're a ...
Budget and save carefully and hesitate to make unplanned purchases	Hoardere
Buy spontaneously and impulsively	Spender
Talk a lot about money and may become obsessed with it	Worrier
Hate to deal with money at all	Avoider
Think money is dirty and corrupting	Money monk
Depend your self-worth on how much is spent or saved	Money amasser
Like plotting finances in detail (and probably spend a lot of time making charts in Quicken)	Planner
Are a visionary who have dreams about the future but doesn't know how to get there	Dreamer
Love adventurous investing	Risk taker
Want safe and secure investments and can't abide risk when it comes to making money	Risk avoider
Don't want or need separate accounts	Money merger
Need for some or all accounts to be discrete	Money separatist
Source: Olivia Mellan, author of Money Harmony: Resolving Money Conflicts in Your Life and Relationship

-- Updated: April 11, 2002