Hello, Wine Evers. My name is Jesse Meekham and this is Hotcast Number 26 for you need a budget car edition.

I will teach you four rules to help you stop

when you check your paycheck, get out of debt and save more money.

I didn't want to miss a podcast, but I have about a,

about six hours left of this drive.

So I'm recording this from my car.

Technology is a miracle. It's not my phone. Anyway, it will also really help

me to stay awake during this drive. I want to talk today about backpacking a little bit.

I'm planning a backpacking trip for the scouts. It's going to be a week long and you have to pack in all of your food and then pack out everything that you bring in obviously.

They call it leaving no trace, so we make sure we do that.

And I have to grapple with the food, basically. When your

backpacking you want to obviously have as light a pack as possible and you

want to make sure that you have enough food.

And you have all of the food right up at the front at the beginning of your trip.

It wouldn't make a lot of sense if you were backpacking

to pack up all this food that should last you for the

week and then you devour it in the first two days. So think about your paycheck and

think about that in relation to rationing food for a backpacking trip.

Same thing if you're on some long distance bike trip or running a marathon or anything like that.

You ration out those energy sources,

just like you should ration out your paycheck.

Now as you implement Rule 4 and you stop moving paycheck to paycheck,

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