My belief is that having good friends is something much deeper than anything you can buy with money. I am a man raised of money and have done nothing in life but try to break away from its grip on my life by forcing myself to do hard work that I don't need to do. I spend most of my time doing hard physical work for money I do not need(lifting logs,boxes by the thousands for shit pay), and taking 12-15hrs of college at the same time.
My friends are starting to loose money where as I seem to just be getting more than I even know what to do with. They treat me differently, although from my end everything is the same. So, what I did was started inviting them to BBQ's that require little to no money(did this in recessions of other ages, also cheap movies but there not so cheap anymore), and let them know how cheap it was so they don't feel guilty to regive any favors. Also try talking about things that don't pertain to money, solar energies, wind energies, swimming, sports etc.... money is only as good as our faith in it. When we loose that it is nothing, and all we have left is our friends.
