Welcome to the Jill on Money Show.

It's Friday, November 25th is Black Friday, which is such a misnomer now, because essentially

every sale started about, I don't know, 24 days ago.

I believe that the day after Halloween is the beginning of the holiday season when it

comes to the retail universe, and so we'll see, we'll see whether people are freaked out

about inflation and whether they spend as much money on the holidays, not sure.

I don't have an opinion about it right now.

I'd rather you not spend a lot of money on the holidays because I just, I'm not like

into the whole consumerism, and I know that every single survey of behavior finds that

physical objects actually have no lasting impact on people's lives.

But all that being said, I know people go crazy.

So go crazy, have fun.

If you've got a financial question we'd love to hear from you, you can go to our website

JillOnMoney.com, click the contact us button and of course, let us know if you'd be willing

to come on the air.

Today we are joined by Steve, he's on the line from Colorado, hello Steve, what brings

you to us today?

Hello to you, I'm just trying to find out we've got some annuities coming from my parents

of state, and we're trying to find out if we should take those annuities in a payout

or maybe reinvest or what our options are as far as taxes and reinvest.

How much money do you think is coming from these annuities?

Like what's the lump sum?

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