In our How I Manage My Money series, we aim to find out how people are spending, saving and investing money to meet their costs and achieve their goals. This week, in our celebrity edition, entrepreneur and musician Levi Roots, 67, talks about collecting bottles for pennies in Jamaica, the £500 guitar that changed his life, and why he believes making money is easy compared with keeping it. Levi is a father of 8.
What are your earliest memories of money growing up in Jamaica?
My parents had left to come to the UK as part of the Windrush generation, and all six of us were left with my grandmother in Jamaica.
My earliest memory of money was selling bottles as a child. My parents were very poor, and in that sense, kids normally when they get to the age of six or seven, in Jamaica, have to try and look after themselves.
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