What's the first thing u do when u get paid?

Right now, life is too rough to put any into savings. When we get paid, we pay bills, buy food, and put gas in the car. The economy is horrible so we are working to make it better. ttyl

good for you. that is being very smart. i can't work anymore so i don't save much but i have always paid my bills when they were due & did save when i was working.the savings came in very handt when i had to quit work due to health problems. keep up the good work.

The first thing I do is put atleast $50 in my Savings account. My husband and I have an agreement about our paychecks, and that is that we take whatever we have leftover after the last one, and put it in our separate savings accounts, and then put $50 of "new money" (money received from the current paycheck) into our savings accounts. After that, we look after our portions of the bills (I take care of rent, and he takes care of food and utilities). Then we look at what we have left for the month, for ourselves. i put money on my pre-paid credit card, so that whatever I spend will earn air miles towards our next vacation. Hubby doesn't have a card like I have, so he puts his portion of the bills on my card, and I use the card to pay for bills and food (he's already paid me for those things, I just make the final payment off of the card from what he has given me) thus earning vacation points for his portion of the household bills also.