Tuesday Question Of The Day

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Tuesday Question Of The Day
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Tue, 01-08-2008 - 8:19am

Saving For A Rainy Day


What are you saving up for?


How about your children?


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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 01-08-2008 - 8:41am

Saving? We're supposed to be saving? LOL I only half kid but for me its always travel. Our trip to Florida and NYC and then somewhere this summer. We are definitely going back to visit my parents but there is a chance I MIGHT have to be in London the week before so not sure if I can take some extra time before London and take Kristen to visit some friends in Edinburgh first or what we'll do. Of course I have money in a retirement savings plan and I am putting money in an education savings plan for Kristen's university but if I have any extra money it is all spent on travel.


Kristen is saving for some designer jeans. She's also a spender. LOL She wants something called AppleBottoms which are designed (loosely used term) but the singer Nelly I think. I looked at them on-line and they are just jeans but they have a back pocket shaped like an apple. Oooooooh. They weren't overly expensive. About $75 which is not "cheap" but not $250. We found a couple of stores in Orlando that carry them so when we go to Florida she can try them on and see if they fit. She saved quite a bit for a video camera of which I own about a 1/3 share. :-) But she saved up allowance, birthday money, etc. to pay for over $200 of it.

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Tue, 01-08-2008 - 9:05am

Ok I can answer since my staff meeting was cancelled....um DH & I are both paranoid about retirement savings...both our parents are retired, have been for the past 10 yrs so we see exactly how the expenses add up. On the other hand we had a financial planner work w/us & it turns out as far as retirement we're fine...we need to step up the college fund savings instead. Since Rach went to MS I no longer have a $500+ expense of childcare but I haven't decided what fund, if any, to invest it in. Need to take some time off to research that now.


Girls are saving money for who knows what, an iPod for Rach I think. Jamie I'm not sure...both my girls are reluctant to part w/any $$ they get (like from Xmas, bdays or other special occasions) so I'm not sure what it is they want. They won't let me open up a young savers account at the bank either...pretty soon I'm going to insist since the $$ don't do anything sitting in a piggy bank, even if they can see it.

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Registered: 01-28-2004
Tue, 01-08-2008 - 9:06am
we are saving up for a trip we are taking in december......hey since i am at home today maybe we can plan it a little......lol
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Tue, 01-08-2008 - 9:26am

Well, we've been saving for a house and some new furniture, and that's going to happen here soon.

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Registered: 09-26-2003
Tue, 01-08-2008 - 10:05am


What are you saving up for? Nothing specific--but with both brothers just getting engaged and one definitely doing a "destination" wedding--looks like that is what we will be saving up for from here on out, LOL


How about your children?Emily--her 8th grade trip.


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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 01-08-2008 - 3:09pm

My answers:


What are you saving up for?

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Registered: 06-29-2001
Tue, 01-08-2008 - 6:56pm

Me - trying to save enough so that Kayleigh can go to sleepaway camp


Kayleigh - last I heard, she was saving for a pair of speed skates, but I don't know if she's really still interested


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Registered: 10-31-2007
Tue, 01-08-2008 - 10:25pm

Humm what we are saving for................We are saving for our annual trip to St. Augustine in Fl.


Both my ds are saving for guitar and guitar stuff lol

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Registered: 12-16-2003
Tue, 01-08-2008 - 11:27pm

Dh and I invest every week into our 401ks and have a nice nest egg saved.

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Registered: 09-01-2006
Wed, 01-09-2008 - 6:38pm

What are you saving up for? I work on occasion and get paid once a month. I immediately take out some of my pay for our Maui trip in April. I want to be able to go on a budgie jump w/o worrying about how much it will cost. :)


How about your children? She has a car fund. She puts money she receives for special occasions in there. She gets a weekly allowance which she blows.