Comments on: 7 Ways You Know You Suck At Saving http://blog.knowyourmoney.co.uk/index.php/2008/06/7-ways-you-know-you-suck-at-saving/ Know Your Money Finance Blog Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:45:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Highest CD Rates http://blog.knowyourmoney.co.uk/index.php/2008/06/7-ways-you-know-you-suck-at-saving/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Highest CD Rates Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:23:25 +0000 http://blog.knowyourmoney.co.uk/?p=52#comment-38 Great article! Getting started saving is the hardest part, but these days online banking can help. If a person can get started automatically sending a small amount (even $20) to a savings account each month, it seems to ease the pain of saving and helps to get you in the habit. Then you can gradually increase the amount as you get more comforatable, get raises, etc. Great article! Getting started saving is the hardest part, but these days online banking can help. If a person can get started automatically sending a small amount (even $20) to a savings account each month, it seems to ease the pain of saving and helps to get you in the habit. Then you can gradually increase the amount as you get more comforatable, get raises, etc.

]]> By: Mary McLuckie http://blog.knowyourmoney.co.uk/index.php/2008/06/7-ways-you-know-you-suck-at-saving/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Mary McLuckie Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:42:20 +0000 http://blog.knowyourmoney.co.uk/?p=52#comment-25 Save money? You've got to be kidding. I work part time as a home care provider with several clients. One lives six miles from me and the other, seven miles. This is one way. Then, I have to (besides cleaning their homes); take them to the doctor, go after their meds, take them to food banks and supermarkets. Run to the bank for them, etc., etc., etc.,. You see what I mean here. The cost of gas alone is outrageous...(and NO, I'm NOT reimbursed)! Right now, it's holding at $4.59 a gallon at the cheapest station here in Redding, California. With all these wildfires (840) going on around us right now; I'm sure the cost of paper and wood products will increase as well. This is not to mention the ever-increasing cost of food. Now, with our severly flooded midwest; I'm sure the cost of food will go even much higher. Then, there are the 'kids'. It seems that a couple of my six (adult) 'kids' are always needing help in one way or another. Then, of course; there's the car payment with 50% interest and full coverage insurance, not to mention my burial insurance policy. Then, there are the essentials: rent, utility bills, cable, phone, trash pick-up, water bill, electric and gas bills and my meds; which I have cut most of them out as I can't afford all of them...not even my blood pressure pills. I went to the doctor recently on an unrelated matter and was told that my BP was 170 over 107. Save money? I wish I had the money to save. Good luck to all who do. Mary Save money? You’ve got to be kidding. I work part time as a home care provider with several clients. One lives six miles from me and the other, seven miles. This is one way. Then, I have to (besides cleaning their homes); take them to the doctor, go after their meds, take them to food banks and supermarkets. Run to the bank for them, etc., etc., etc.,. You see what I mean here. The cost of gas alone is outrageous…(and NO, I’m NOT reimbursed)! Right now, it’s holding at $4.59 a gallon at the cheapest station here in Redding, California.
With all these wildfires (840) going on around us right now; I’m sure the cost of paper and wood products will increase as well. This is not to mention the ever-increasing cost of food. Now, with our severly flooded midwest; I’m sure the cost of food will go even much higher.
Then, there are the ‘kids’. It seems that a couple of my six (adult) ‘kids’ are always needing help in one way or another.
Then, of course; there’s the car payment with 50% interest and full coverage insurance, not to mention my burial insurance policy. Then, there are the essentials: rent, utility bills, cable, phone, trash pick-up, water bill, electric and gas bills and my meds; which I have cut most of them out as I can’t afford all of them…not even my blood pressure pills. I went to the doctor recently on an unrelated matter and was told that my BP was 170 over 107.
Save money? I wish I had the money to save. Good luck to all who do.

Mary

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