to begin with

first or most importantly To begin with, I don't have enough money to take a trip to Europe this summer.

Related vocabulary: for openers

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Elnora	-	English
RomÁN	-	Hungarian
Damjan	-	Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian
Blerta	BLER-tah	Albanian
Imanol	-	Basque
Deanna	[di'ænə]