Interest on most savings accounts are about 0.01 percent which is just 0.01 percent better than keeping the same money in your sock.
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Saving for the future implies that you think you have a future which sounds cocky to most people.
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When you have thirty thousand dollars in credit card debt, saving ten dollars from each paycheck seems futile and absurd.
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Americans like instant gratification. Actually, when time machines become readily available, we’ll be going back in time to gratify ourselves even earlier than that.
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With two jobs during the week and a part-time job on the weekend, most Americans blow their extra money on amphetamines and rage medication.
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Social Security will be more than sufficient to support us if we avoid medical care, watch our spending and move to Uruguay…
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We don’t know why we can’t save the money that millionaires suggest we save.
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All of our financial saving decisions can be vetoed by a committee comprised of our children, our car and cruel cruel fate.
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Most colleges have stopped taking gravel and string as payment.
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Apparently, the culprit is avocado toast…
Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes 
I told my son this week that the bank of mum and dad is closed. The next day he called and asked to borrow $20
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“What interest do you offer?”
“Why, I’m not interested at all”
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😃
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I find it’s much easier to save money when you actually have some. But on the other hand, I’ve heard Uruguay is lovely in the spring.
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The mosquitoes are all wearing sandals…
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😂
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High praise from an Okie?
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Yes, very funny but true!
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Just can’t get me enough avocado toast. Or money to put into savings!
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That’s because your children veto any savings plans. I never saved a dime while my kids were kids…
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The third one seemed closer to the truth. How does one save when the little buggers keep you in so much debt? I’d rather just eat avocado toast and not think about it.
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I love that stuff with Tabasco and mayonnaise…
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Brutally brilliant. We’re not saving anything for the same reason men aren’t going to college any longer, and globally people are not having babies. We’re tired of the game…and, yeah, with inflation making every dollar we save worth less and less, coupled with Global warming, what future? Everyone is to “woke” to save for a future that may not arrive.
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Well, THAT was pessimistic and entirely accurate, George…
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LOL! Maintaining a sense of humor while staring into the void is essential.
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Did I mention perpetual minimum wage alongside the endless rise in housing cost? College costs? Healthcare costs? While people like Bezo’s are worth trillions and won’t share ’cause it’s “socialist.” Did I mention these things?
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The problem with money is that it is obscenely easy to have hundreds of times more than you need…
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I can’t believe you forgot the very important fact that the couch is eating what would be your savings!
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I bought a big couch to put all my other couches on so that the money from all the other couches falls into the cushions of the big couch. Then, once a week, I send someone into the big couch with a pack mule and a snow shovel.
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A wise man, I see.
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This is a great post!
Saving is very crucial. I believe that not only savings is key but also increasing your income is too.
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Why are all financial advisors on radio named Rick? And if they’re so damn smart, why are they spending all their time listening to old women with 97 cats who want to know which one to leave their fortunes to?
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A rich old woman with cats is my retirement plan, Jack.
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Hey, that’s an important concern! They need to figure out which cat won’t murder them for the money…
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Just find the cats that like expensive cat toys…
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