I have $25 left in my account.
I do this every month.
I’ve been reading a book about mistakes women make about money (yea, yea, but honestly, read up on it. I do believe women have been trained to view money differently than a lot of men, if only in the way so many women are taught that either men automatically know more about money than they do or that they should just sit around and wait for a guy to take care of them. Not many guys do that), and I found myself perusing the magazine stacks at the airport yesterday looking for more magazines about weight training and nutrition. About halfway through my survey, I realized just how much time and money I’ve put into figuring out how to eat right and exercise.
And how little time I’ve put into figuring out how to
1) save money
2) make my money grow (that means investing, etc)
Now that I’ve got my nutrition and health stuff together, I figure it’s time to switch gears and put all that energy I was using for the pursuit of a balanced diet and healthy attitude toward exercise and focus it into money matters. So it’s time to read up about money, investing, get my fucking savings account fucking opened this week and set up the paperwork to get money automatically deducted into it, and then to start deciding how I’ll invest bits of that once I have loose bits to invest.
Sure, I have a company 401(K) that I put 3% of my income into every month automatically, but that’s chump change. I don’t want to be one of those writers who has to beg people for money when she gets sick. I want to be financially independent.
I want to be able to take care of myself.
And money is a big part of that.
