I wouldn’t want to be rich or wealthy. I just want to be financially secure. Out of debt and able to afford a few luxuries. A new car that we can depend on and are not affriad of breaking down everytime we drive it. A home and I don’t mean a trailer house either. Having my children in decent clothing and shoes, no worrying if they can get new clothes when they outgrow the ones they got. Not have to worry where our next meal will come from. Not worry that the utilities will be turned off before we get a payment in.
You know, with gas prices and food prices on the rise, I find it difficult to even get enough food to feed us each and every week and still have enough to put gas in our car to get my husband back and forth to work. He has been at his current job for four years now and in that time has recieved raises totaling $1.15! That’s 0.287 cents per year! Not much of a raise considering that the minimum wage raises were higher than that and they didn’t seem to affect those already getting more that minimum wage.
My husband makes $11.15/hour on a 60 hour work-week That comes to $780.60 Gross Pay. Part of his check goes to his ex-wife($200), about $200 goes to our health insurance and 401K and Taxes. That leaves about $380 to pay utilities & loans, buy food & fuel, and get medications, ect. My husband is also ill and sees a doctor monthly and recently has been seeing specialists. If he has to stop working, we don’t know what to do. Disability insurance and SS Disabilty will not cover all our important expenses. We still have a four year old child and my disabled mother living at home.
So, yeah… Be Financially Secure!