Girls like money because it means you can protect them and look after children if you have any, it also means they can go shopping! It's a caveman instinct that most girls have, but that doesn't mean we can't override it. Personally, as long as a guy has enough money to take me to a restaurant once in a while that's fine. Sometimes he doesn't even need that but it is nice to have drinks bought for you. So much for feminism! Not having money is not a major problem at all at our age, most people have none! However, if you are still poor in a boring, low paid job when you are thirty something, then you will have problems.