This is a guest post from my fantastic mom, Yvonne Monroe.  She has been using WePay in a lot of fun ways with her friends.  It turns out moms have fun too! : )

Sadly my babies are all growing up.  My oldest is going to be a senior in college, my son is going to be starting his first year at CalArts in the fall and my youngest will be a junior in high school.  I have no idea where the time went!  I remember the good old days of Chuck E. Cheese birthday parties, playdates and schlepping kids around Silicon Valley for every kind of practice imaginable.

Now everyone drives themselves, have their own jobs, and even have boyfriends and girlfriends!  They’re all busy most of the time.  I do miss all the time I got to spend with them but I am proud of the adults they are becoming.  All mushiness aside (gotta love it though, huh?) I now have time to spend for myself.  It is quite an exciting concept.  I just started having my own life again and it was weird.

I started going for drinks with my girlfriends during the week nights, I found a boyfriend and have started going on weekend trips with friends from work.  While it’s all been fun, all of the awkward feelings about money began to resurface.  When I am not at home, I am out in a group.  When I’m out though I never want to (and I’m sure no one else wants to) step up and pay for the entire group.  When my friends and I go out for drinks, splitting the bill for the bottle of wine (or 2…) is always an arduous task.  My kids always make fun of me (why do they think everything I do is so funny?) for the lengthy discussion with friends over who should pay and how much when the check comes for dinner.  After a great night out it’s always a drag to talk about the check.  Someone invariably ends up paying a lot more than she should and then tries for the rest of the night to act like it was no big deal…even though this has happened the past 3 times.

My daughter just began interning at WePay.  I signed up since it was free (and because it’s all she talks about) and gave it a try.

I started using WePay and all of these hassles with collecting and splitting money with groups went away.  I create groups with the usual ladies I go out with.  I collect money in our group account for everything from drinks to movie tickets to gas money for long trips.  At first I felt bad sending bills to my friends for $10 for dinner-I mean I can spend the 10 bucks that once right?  But then I realized that I have done that my whole life and contrary to popular belief that money never “evens out.”  My friends and I have saved so much money using WePay it’s crazy.  And no one cares when they get a bill from you-they were going to pay me back anyway they just never have cash or always forget.  It’s been awesome.

Next month some of the ladies and I are going on a weekend trip to Napa.  We pooled our money to split hotel rooms, a rental car, gas, golf, the list goes on.  We got a WePay debit card so we can access the money as if it were coming from our own bank accounts.  It’s the perfect solution to managing group money.  And if you think about it, everything you do is with a group of some kind.

I only wish I had known about WePay as a young mom.  How many times have we tried to split the cost of that Chuck E. Cheese lunch for the kids or snacks for the classroom?  Better yet, WePay allows you to collect donations and sell tickets.  For me fundraisers were the worst part of my kids’ young years.  Keeping track of donations for walk-a-thons and magazine drives was such a headache.  WePay makes it easy to collect donations for anything.

WePay!-Why didn’t you exist 10 years ago??

So pass this on to the young moms you know too -WePay will make life so much easier. They’ll have time to appreciate all the fun, happy times with their kids and friends.