Don’t ask me why I am reading I will teach you to be rich, I can’t answer that question anymore than I could have answered it when I was reading Hello Dollar. Maybe I can answer it. Now that I think about it. I think I am reading it (and read Hello Dollar before it) because it’s almost normal to do so and I have hope that I won’t always hate thinking about money, talking about money, moving money around and spending money. Being rich is not my thing, paying my bills is my thing and that’s pretty much where I draw the line. If I’ve got more money around than that, then I give it away.
Where was I? Oh yea I was here and trying to come up with things I hate spending money on – like a normal person. The answer everything is not normal, right? So I read the post and the comments and then the follow up post and comments. And I saved both as new and released them and went back and grabbed them and saved them as new and then released them again. See, even reading blogs about money makes me more nuts than I already am! What do I hate spending money on? Here’s my list, and it’s making me nervous to even begin to type it. Not as nervous as that 101 things list but close….
1) Healthcare. After 41 years of not paying for healthcare, of never paying for a prescription and of buying over the counter medications only rarely, I still can’t get use to paying for healthcare. Either the insurance payments or the copays. Michelle and Chris’s copays I pretty much have gotten use to but my own and TW’s – those make no sense. I am always surprised by something that either is or isn’t covered and in my head any RX copay should be $9, that’s the Tricare way and I’m finally use to that. Avmed and Blue Cross should both follow along, it’s the only thing Tricare seems to do right.
2) "Well Car Check-ups". These make absolutely no sense to me at all. I hate them, hate spending money on them and have finally, after the last one, refused to ever participate in them again. Ever. For any reason.
3) Parking. I hate paying for parking whether it is a parking meter or a parking garage or airport parking or a field across from a concert.
4) Service charges when buying tickets or services online. $3.95 service charge at Gatorfood. $7.50 at Ticketmaster. $2 at Fandango. Blah.
And there you go. My list. Kind of boring. I could have talked about how I hate spending money on food and stuff like that but that would scare you, some of you more than others but still probably not a good to scare you for no good reason, right?
What’s on your list? Weird stuff like food or normal stuff like parking?
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Hmmm I don’t really hate spending money on food but I *do* hate that I have spend so much money to eat well. To get good quality produce when overly processed convenience crap is cheap, cheap, cheap.
Antibiotics – I’m allergic to the most commonly prescribed ones so I have to get the expensive ones. The ones that are expensive even when you have health insurance. I haven’t had to pay for them in years though (knock wood).
Dentists – Dentists scare the crap out of me and I don’t see why the heck I should have to pay money to go to someone I’m afraid of in order to keep my teeth from falling out.
Bank fees – as if they aren’t making enough money off of my money.
$7.50 at ticketmaster? I thought $4 for the Beth tickets there was a ripoff…
wish theatres/event locations gave the option of buying direct…
…and whatever money I earn that is available as an extra should go to sassymonkey to invest. I’m lousy with money. l-o-u-s-y.
Medical costs: co-pays, premiums, deductibles, and all the other joys of being screwed without being kissed.
Dental costs: Your teeth are very important to your general health but dental insurance is not even close to medical insurance and medical insurance sucks!
Bills and rent. I would love to save all that money and take my family on a real vacation. But alas, reality is, bills and rent, medical and dental all need to be paid.
I hate paying for TV reception. It’s no longer optional if you want to do things like watch the news. One of the reasons I don’t want a new TV is because I would have to pay even more for the digital connection and since I hate paying for it in the first place, I have no intention of paying more for it.
Parking is a huge bugaboo of mine — It drives me crazy to fork over $15 for empty space.
What really drives me crazy when I’ve decided to spend money is discovering that I’m going to spend more money than was advertised because of service charges, hidden fees and taxes. Grrr.
But right now I’d like to have some money that I could hate spending. It’s been a lean first quarter — I sure hope it gets better soon!
Paying for TV, good point I hadn’t thought about that one. I hate paying for TV and internet on the days when my connection and TV reception seem to be “out” more often than not.
Hmm, maybe we should all give our money to the monkey to invest????