What is your biggest financial concern right now?

[saving maglet]

Originally Posted by DistilledRose

Losing about $3500 due to a scooter accident. My scooter was totaled, I have medical bills, and now I have to buy a car.
I feel a bit like I'm drowning. I'm going to be getting a second job as soon as my shoulder is better.

Oh no! Hope you're mending well.

It is a bit like drowning. It seems that things just keep piling on. The price of everything keeps going up, while salaries stay the same. That can't BE, but it is... crazy!

[Megan]

Inflation, the falling markets, and my salary. Not much I can do about the first two, but I'm working on the third!

[purplefdu]

getting my student loans out of default without requiring a paid attorney. the bad economy is looking like it might help me there though. previously $50 payments weren't enough based on what it would take to "catch up divided by 9" and now they want anything they can get.

next is getting a new apartment or preferably buying a house. I know the market is bad but we're really not fit to put up with poohead landlords anymore.

Inflation and gas prices as well as other commodities, but only a little. I don't ever pay more than 50-70% at the grocery store so thats not bugging me at all and my favorite grocery chain is doing gas coupons again.

[singleguymoney]

Originally Posted by DistilledRose

Losing about $3500 due to a scooter accident. My scooter was totaled, I have medical bills, and now I have to buy a car.
I feel a bit like I'm drowning. I'm going to be getting a second job as soon as my shoulder is better.

Were you insured?

[DistilledRose]

Nope. It was under a 50cc so it didn't require insurance and I was silly and didn't even insure the bike against damage or theft. Lesson learned, for sure. Luckily my health insurance covered most of my emergency room stuff, but my deductible my mri was high and I've got a few copays yet to come.
I loved my scooter so much, but I'm back to a car for now.

[Ronni]

Inflation, finding a job.

[amyschiff]

Having just gotten my car brakes repaired yesterday, one of my concerns is how much longer my circa 1998 vehicle will last. It's paid off which is very nice, not to mention low insurance because of its age, but I have a feeling that repairs will start to add up if I keep the car too much longer.

[shrewgirl2020]

It would be hard to rank my biggest financial concern right now, as I have several. Due to several serious illnesses of myself and my children, I have several thousands of dollars of medical debt, after the insurance paid their portion.

I would have to say my biggest concern is the inflation in gas and food prices cutting into my expendable income that I had been using to pay down my credit card and medical debt. Now, it is hard to find the money to pay all of my "regular" bills such as house payments and college tuition and food and gas, so there is not a lot left over to pay down on the other debts I have, and I had been working towards paying off my debt, as well as saving for retirement. Sometimes it's hard to make it between paydays, and my husband and I both work, we have 4 teenagers at home, and we planted a vegetable garden this year, and its still hard.

[PlantGeek]

Saving money for a "new" car (most likely used) and vacations. I'm really worried my current car will die before we have enough saved for a replacement. I guess there's always the bus or carpooling if it happens though.

[Mary Webber]

We have a wicked high-deductible health insurance policy, about all we could get as a two-person small business. We pay a $5,000 decductible EACH every year, and it's a killer. My biggest financial concern would be the cost of a major illness or accident, as neither of us has disability insurance.

Aside from that, I hate the government - local, state and federal - dipping their hands into my pockets all the time. We have to live within our means, why can't they! Making this really painful for us, our home state has a subsidized medical insurance program for small businesses like ours, a program we don't qualitfy for, but have to help support. ARRRREGGGHHHH!