This is what my friend said to me when I volunteered to help her save. I didn't add anything else after I said that. She probably took it the wrong way and she's quite stubborn.

She may know how to save but in a wrong way, by not eating breakfast or lunch. Whenever she has money, she spends it on friends, things for herself, food (breakfast and lunch),etc. The last time she told me what she is going to do with her next paycheck. She was naming me all the things that were pure wants. She even plans on what she will spend on her next next paycheck and the one after that. I was wondering, how will she save if she's planning to buy all these things. It might take her months to be able to save a 100$ and let it stays in the bank for a week or two.

Another friend was telling me that she doesn't know how to save. Most of the time, she can't spend on things that she really needs like googles for our swimming class. We have swimming class every Friday. When we first went into the pool, my eyes were hurting because the water has strong concentration of chlorine. I made sure to buy googles for the next class. After a few classes, my friend didn't buy her googles yet because she doesn't have any money.

Last class, I was worried about her eyes condition. They were hurting really badly so I told her that I'm going to buy her googles for her birthday in October. She asked me to buy her green ones. After school, I went to the same store that I bought my googles and I bought her one for her as a birthday gift.

To finish this blog off, I decided I'm going to help her save indirectly. I'm going to help her by influencing her to do things frugally with an excuse that I want to save more money for my trip which is true by the way. It will be helpful for her and I. I hope that my experienment will help her too.