Look At Your Payroll Stub & GET Good & MAD

[LuxLiving]

Wow - don't you look HOT this morning!??!

No?

Well, just wait.

I want you to get capital M.A.D. mad this morning. That's right - P.O.d!!

I want you so mad that you're steaming!

Steaming hot that is.

I want you to go and get your payroll stub out of the filing cabinet. (You do have this stuff filed, right?? RIGHT!)

}}}}}frantic rifling of piles{{{{{{

oKAY... I heard that mad shuffling of papers!!

Go ahead. I'll wait on you.





Good, you're back!!

Now I want to tell you about a little conversation the Hubster and I had this past week when I was being headhunted for a nice little J.O.B. in the financial sector.

Afterwards Hubster was asking me how I decide to turn our finances around - the answer "Your payroll stub."

"Huh?"

"As a matter of fact it was your health insurance that did it for me."

"auhhhhuuuugguuu (quizzical Tim Taylorish grunt???????)"

"I saw that we were paying more out every pay period for health insurance than we were saving for ourselves. --Way MORE! Like 85% more and it hacked me off royal
...that the insurance company CEO's :...

were living in mighty fine houses and driving super nice cars and have maids and lawnkeepers and such and we were barely scraping by.

It was then at that very moment that I decided to get serious about our finances - I determined that we were going to put back more for retirement savings than the health insurance company was taking out.

That is what began our financial turn-around."


After thinking about it, it made me wonder if it will help any of you to GET MAD enough to want to do something for your own future??

My message, dear friends, is for you to look down at your payroll stub and if you aren't saving at least the same as, if not more than, the health insurance company is getting then I want you to ask yourself, "Why do I think more of their future than I do my own?"

Then get angry enough to do the financial footwork - Take The Actions - necessary to get your future on track!

Stepping off soapbox now!

Okay, you can go back to your paperwork filing now. You are going to file that stub back in it's slot aren't you??

BTW, did I mention how hot you look this morning??

Totally H.O.T.!! :

[cschin4]

Who ever invented Payroll Deduction was an absolute genius. Most people only look at what is left, not what they actually should have been paid. I think there would be a huge tax revolution if everyone received their actual pay and then had to pay for other things such as taxes, etc out of the gross when it is in their hand. Because most people never see this money, it is like the frog in the pot.

Go Get 'em Lux!

[Elgin526]

Well, my company pays for 90% of my health care, so that wouldn't do it for me. I think I pay $20 or so a month, maybe? I save way more in my 401k than that! If I added up all the bennifits I pay for, it still ads up to less than what I'm puting in my 401k, and I don't put away THAT much!

But you're right, we all likely have areas in our lives that we (unnessesarily) spend more for than what we save for ourselves. We should all look at our budgets and see places we can cut back in order to save more.

[PrincessPerky]

Love the tagline 'bout choose not to Elgin.

and Lux you are looking hot too

[PRICEPLUS]

They certainly don't like to leave us with much after the deductions!