There is nothing quite like being able to hear from and learn from our elders. No one in this world knows better about life than those who have lived so much of it. So when Reddit user u/CoreFusionX asked the question , "For those of you 60-plus, how did you learn the 'real life' money stuff no one talked about?" in r/AskOldPeople , I knew it would be full of some very enlightening information: 1. "I learned it growing up because we were poor. The words 'we can’t afford it' are very powerful. It’s really pretty simple, and you don’t need lessons. There’s X money coming in and bills totaling Y. If you don’t have any leftover, too bad; you can’t have it. Too bad you can’t take that trip, you can’t go to that expensive college, and you can’t buy that designer purse. Parents today need to just say those two words." 2. By the time I was in my early 20s, people stopped hand-feeding me. We just did it. My advice is to stop complaining and just do it. No one owes you anything. I say this with love and encouragement.…