I Still Need Help Understanding All of the Plays

I go to Larry, Jr’s football games and Lexie’s soccer games and I wait for the other parents to comment on the calls before I say a word!!! I’m learning… but I still have that fear of embarrassment in me.

Football has hand offs and T Formations. Soccer has dribbling and heading and juggling and a passing wall. They sound goofy to me. Why are they so important? Isn’t the whole idea to get the ball down there as fast as possible? I think if they played by my rules I would understand the game a whole lot better. But I doubt the game would be as interesting. I bet it might be downright boring. Not much excitement in the way I play.

When I go to balance things in our finances, I still need help understanding the “plays”. Getting things paid on time is one of the goals we have in our family. It’s working for the smaller monthly bills. Auto Pay is the way to go for us. Remember: The less we see or touch our money, the better. However, we never seem to be able to get our Mortgage paid on time. It is one of those overwhelming bills that puts the Brown House Team on the losing team. We ALWAYS have tension in the house when it’s time to pay the mortgage. Sometimes we will have set money aside (hid it under the mattress), but most of the time it’s not enough to make the “full payment”.

There are rules to follow and plays to make and we are learning them little by little. Yes. We have cut our spending by quite a bit. We are sticking to our “Gas and Grocery Cash” envelopes. We are set up on Auto Pay for most of our bills… but there is still more.

Our coach Mike is encouraging us with the idea that we don’t always have to come to our meetings with reports of TOUCHDOWNS!!!! We just need to focus on “advancing the chains”. Yep, that’s the one part of Football that I DO UNDERSTAND. You get opportunities to make plays and move your team a little further and further and further toward your goal line. It’s good to have a goal line. It’s good to have plays in mind. It’s good to have a good team AND a good coach.  We have all of those. So, here we come Mortgage. It’s time for the Brown House Team to make some plays and Just Do It!

Comments

[Cheryl T.]

Love your sports-finance analogies. Very creative!