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I'm so excited....and I just can't hide it....

March 15th, 2008 at 01:11 pm

Sorry for all who will have that cheesy reference to the 80's in their head all day. Rest assure that I will too. Hubby went for his orientation yesterday for the new job. Found out he gets 12 sick days, 3 personal days, 2 floating holidays, 20 holidays off AND 20 days of vacation per year! (No more worrying about non-payment for taking a day off or not having work or whatever). Holy moly batman! That's not all people! He can take advantage of a whole bunch of tax sheltered annuities. I am not sure if we should go ahead and take advantage of them or not as we certainly need the cash flow, etc. However, this is momentous. We went out for dinner last night to celebrate his first week on the new job.

I'm going to try extra hard this week to sell a bunch of this stuff I have in the house that I no longer need. Hoping this can generate a $100 or so extra dollars that I will use to buy easter goodies for DS and my stepdaughters.

8 Responses to “I'm so excited....and I just can't hide it....”

  1. managinglife Says:
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    Hurray!!!!

  2. scfr Says:
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    What wonderful benefits!

    BTW, tread carefully with annuities. Don't dismiss them automatically, but be careful. Before deciding, I suggest reading up on them. Feel free to post details here on on the forums, and I'm sure you'll get lots of feedback.

  3. Thrifty Ray Says:
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    Wow...those are wonderful benefits!! Reason indeed to celebrate!

  4. creditcardfree Says:
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    Good news!! I second the caution on annuities. They tend to have higher operating costs and fees than a traditional mutual fund. You can open a traditional IRA at a mutual fund and get the same tax shelter. Consider that option first, then after you have maxed out 401k's consider the annuities. Reps make more on annuities than other investments.

  5. frugalhousewife Says:
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    Wonderful news!

  6. Ima saver Says:
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    Congratulations!! I agree with caution on annuities, they are very costly!!

  7. aevans1206 Says:
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    You are all so lovely. Thank you! I will certainly exercise caution looking at the annuities. I'll keep you posted with details.

  8. baselle Says:
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    Wow - that's 57 business days, or over 10 weeks. Are you sure you're blogging from the United States? Big Grin Congrats!

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