Saving Money Sara Style

As my friends and my parents know (sorry again, mom and dad) I am terrible horrible at saving money.  I argue that it is because I probably do not make enough but then again, I am preaching to the choir.  Perhaps I lack a certain hormone in my body or am missing some part of my brain (likely the same part that thinks cleaning is super fun) or maybe it is because I would rather save money where no one else can touch it.  I mean, if my money is in my bank account, I have to pay bills with it and then the money that I wanted to save ends up in the hands of a wealthy corporation which in my head looks a lot like the Monopoly Man.   

When I was a kid I thought I had a brilliant money saving idea.  I must have just learned about the American Indians in school because one night, after eating corn on the cob, I decided that I would save my money like the Indians--in a tin can with the kernel-less cob buried in the back yard.  It was an amazing idea indeed.  Luckily, in this situation and in no other, I am by nature an impatient person and I like instant gratification.  

After a short time, I decided to purchase a cold soda at the gas station up the street and I needed my coins that I had been saving, so I grabbed a small shovel and went to work.  Once I had exhumed the tin (which did not take long since I didn't bury it very deep) I reached my hand in and just as quickly pulled it out.  Sick!  The pennies had turned green from the rotten corn-cob and the quarters were covered with either the first antibiotic known to man or some sort of furry turquoise growth that happens to quarters when saved.  I don't remember telling my parents about my experiment so I would imagine that I simply threw the moldy corn cob away and took my life into my own hands when desiring a form of payment.  

Before you think that one day I will save all of my money in a sock secretly kept at the top of my closet where my husband and children (this is obviously in the future) cannot find it, I am going to attend the Financial Peace University class based on Dave Ramsey's teachings.  So look out world and look out bank account because towards the middle of summer, I will know a lot about saving money.