I just filed my taxes. I’ll be getting a whopping $150.00 back. That seems ridiculous to me.  After all that money I gave the government, I barely cost anything, and that’s what I’m getting back? I obviously suck at money.

I’m excited to be planning a trip to Spain. No… to Sicily. I’m going to be going there in the summer of 2010. For a wedding. I’m going to need that long to save up for airfare and meals because with tax returns coming in with such grand totals, I’m sure I could go like… tomorrow, but I’m very happy to be going for the wedding.

I need something to force me to save up for a trip to Italy. Some forced mechanism of putting away… $40 a paycheck for two years. That would add up to $2080. I need a better plan than that. If I put away $40 a paycheck and significantly cut out Starbucks, I could double that value easily… on the other hand, I’d be a far less agreeable person.

Maybe I could work at Starbucks part-time and save the money to go to Italy… home of espresso.

This entry was posted on Monday, March 10th, 2008 at 9:12 pm and is filed under daily post.