Have you set your totally arbitrary MyLot financial goal for January 2022?
By The Horse
@TheHorse (205696)
Walnut Creek, California
January 25, 2022 10:31am CST
They say financial planning is important. I hear it on the radio all the time. I decided to start my MyLot financial planning a bit early this month.
I have already made a whopping $00XY.0000 in January, and see $00XZ.0000 as a perfectly realistic goal. However, with a bit of extra effort, I could make it to $00XQ.0000. Why not set my sights high!
That said, I have to work at Guitar Center today and tomorrow, and so will have to be out in the "real world"each day.
Have you set your totally arbitrary MyLot goal for this month? How is your week shaping up?
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22 responses
@FourWalls (62111)
• United States
25 Jan 22
T&A! (That’s “totally and arbitrarily,” not what “T&A” meant regarding TV shows in the 70s. )
I’m having about $11,000 worth of repair/maintenance/preventative measures done to the house, so I’ll need a whole lot more than that myLot money next month. But that’s okay. I gave the myLot savings I had in PayPal to a local no-kill animal shelter for Betty White’s birthday, so thanks to all my loyal reader (singular intentional)!!!!!
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@TheHorse (205696)
• Walnut Creek, California
25 Jan 22
Heh. That's actually a most excellent way to spend MyLot riches. I'm proud to have been the reason. I woke up thinking of t and a this morning, so I decided I'd better write this post before I started thinking about other things. Oops. Trying to do two things at once.
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@ptrikha_2 (45467)
• India
1 Feb 22
@FourWalls
$11k is a big expense!
Not as much, but even I had some more expenses in January.
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@xFiacre (12595)
• Ireland
25 Jan 22
@thehorse It’s such a slap in the teeth listening to financial experts telling people how to be prudent with money they don’t have. My girlfriend always thought when I said I had no money I meant that I had no loose change because my wealth was all tied up in investments. Then she married me. And she’s still with me after 37 years of impecunious marriage.
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@Tampa_girl7 (48927)
• United States
25 Jan 22
I haven’t been here much, so I’ll be happy with whatever I make.
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@TheHorse (205696)
• Walnut Creek, California
25 Jan 22
@Tampa_girl7 I'm still almost off to run some errands. I don't have to work until 3:30.
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@xander6464 (40872)
• Wapello, Iowa
25 Jan 22
$00XQ.0000 would be awesome but I'm never going to hit it. My totally arbitrary and realistic MyLot goal for this month is 36,427,923.29. Only slightly more than $1 million a day which a lot of people think is a joke but for someone my age (I'm going to be 28 in less than 2 weeks now) who is also saddled with a Vow Of Poverty and a horrible work addiction, it's very reasonable. I'm still 73 cents short so I probably won't hit it since there's only 5 or 6 days left...How many days does January have?...but, as the Cubs fans say, there's always next month.
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@xander6464 (40872)
• Wapello, Iowa
26 Jan 22
@TheHorse It's probably just as well. If we were on two writing sites, we'd have twice as many groupies and that would be exhausting.
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@TheHorse (205696)
• Walnut Creek, California
26 Jan 22
@xander6464 I'm already exhausted.
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@mildredtabitha (16052)
• Nairobi, Kenya
25 Jan 22
Since I started participating in January 9 which is the second week of January, I haven't really set a goal. But now that is just 6 days to February, I've put a little effort to reach a certain target before January ends and I'm glad I'll be able to do it by Saturday if I continue like this.
But I've never set goals /targets because I often go MIA
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@TheHorse (205696)
• Walnut Creek, California
25 Jan 22
@mildredtabitha I forgot that it's probably already evening there. I have to run errands and then work.
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@mildredtabitha (16052)
• Nairobi, Kenya
25 Jan 22
@TheHorse it's been fun chatting with a human who wishes he was a horse
I also find time every day in the evening to mylot since two weeks ago.
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@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
25 Jan 22
I always set my myLot goal at a totally realistic $1 million but am falling a tiny bit short this month, I think... Somebody, didn't post as many discussions as normal, so I didn't manage to get quite as much interaction as I'm accustomed to here.
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@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
25 Jan 22
@TheHorse *sigh* Not all of us get to talk with as many people as you, though.
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@TheHorse (205696)
• Walnut Creek, California
25 Jan 22
@DaddyEvil What's odd i that I seem to have a fairly limited group of people I interact with (or who choose to interact with me). But I chat with them often.
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@lovebuglena (43074)
• Staten Island, New York
25 Jan 22
I just aimed for payout and I surpassed that. Would be nice to end with double digits but won’t happen.
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@TheHorse (205696)
• Walnut Creek, California
25 Jan 22
@lovebuglena I actually do look forward to the interaction here.
@lovebuglena (43074)
• Staten Island, New York
25 Jan 22
@TheHorse Of course, I'd be happier with more, but I am okay with whatever I get.
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@Kouponkaren (5487)
• United States
26 Jan 22
Yes, I have set my goal but haven't reached it yet.
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@Kouponkaren (5487)
• United States
26 Jan 22
@TheHorse I have LOTS of goals in life, but not very many on myLot. I will try to do it monthly though.
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@RasmaSandra (73399)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
26 Jan 22
I always peg it at the minimum and see if I can pass that and I have and looks like I will double it so I am glad
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@LindaOHio (156056)
• United States
26 Jan 22
I reached my goal and then some. My week is boring as usual. I can't wait for spring.
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@sharonelton (24959)
• Lichfield, England
26 Jan 22
I hope to get paid every month, or failing that every other month. That's my goal.
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@sharonelton (24959)
• Lichfield, England
27 Jan 22
@TheHorse Yes, you're totally right, absolutely!