Thursday, February 28, 2013

Momentum.....

Momentum can be great!  You get on a roll, and you charge ahead!  You clean the whole house!  You pay off the debt!  YAY!

Momentum can be bad.  Something goes wrong, and it continues to spiral towards the 9th ring of Hell.  Something breaks....something ELSE breaks.....boo!!!!

This week has been a bad momentum week.  I posted on Monday that is was a Crazy Day! In my head, I blamed it on the Full Moon.  But we are now 3 days after that, and we are still in crazy frenzy mode, with no end in sight.  There appears to be a lull in the middle of next week...but then it picks up again.

I started a post yesterday about this....whine whine whine.  I ran out of time to finish.  Now I don't even care about what I was writing.

My week has been spent fixing the problems that others created that had a trickle down effect onto yours truly.  No one has been immune.  My husband....grrr.  Work.  GRRR.  School...GRRRR.  I am over it all.

I got paid yesterday, and it is GONE.  It bounced off my account and right into the hands of others.  The changes in the taxes are really starting to hurt.  At a rate of several hundred dollars a month, the already tight budget has gotten stifling. 

I am frustrated and tired.  I tweaked my back last weekend, and I overcompensated for it, and now the other side is kinked up.  No amount of stretching seems to help.

OK, whine over......

12 comments:

  1. What changes in taxes? Did state taxes go up? unless you make over 400,000 a year, that 2% rise in Fed tax shouldn't affect you too much.

    HS

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    1. No, we don't make over 400k. But it is coming out to about $150 a month for us. Our state taxes are HORRID.

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    2. Where did that $400k figure come from? A $50 shortage per check (like mine), or $150/mo like Mysti's can affect some a LOT, depending what their budgets are like... I know mine suck a lot, and I only make 36k.

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    3. I meant taxes went up only for those making over 400k..

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    4. What changed in taxes was for most of the population, getting rid of a tax relief, which indeed, "increased" said people's taxes when compared to what they were paying last year. I'd be surprised if it didn't affect you as well...

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    5. HS, most of what people refer to when speaking of taxes going up is the payroll tax which was 4%, went downt o 2% for about two years, right? and now is back to 4%, which represents a sizeable bite to people accustomed to using all of their paycheck. You knew about this, right?

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    6. Oh, I see now that you said you did know about it. HS, I don't like it when people are purposely obtuse and this isn't the first time I've seen you saying something like "Oh, that 2% shouldn't affect you," when obviously it does affect people, and it's hard not to think that you're doing that sort of thing as a "rub it in" jab.

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  2. I'm sorry to hear about that down-hill trip... but maybe you will hit a wall of positive things and that will stop. Try to keep a positive mind. I know it's hard, and it's boring. Most of my checks actually do disappear (or should disappear) the moment they hit my bank, and though that can be frustrating, I actually find it peaceful, as I do the zero budgetting approach.

    Hope your back feels better soon. Here's to wishing all these bad things stop with February!

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  3. I know what you mean about momentum. One good thing about it, at least in my experience, is that bad momentum can switch to good in an instant (or good to bad). And I'm sure the pain you are experiencing is making everything harder than it would be otherwise. I hope you heal quickly.

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  4. $150 is a far cry from several hundred a month, but still painful. Hope things ease up soon.

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  5. Hopefully things will get better for you soon.
    Keep your chin up! :)

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  6. SS went from 6.2 to 4.2 back to 6.2. So families making up to 118K are paying up to 2K more. Then sales taxes change at any moment. And some state taxes may fluctuate.

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