Hello, whinabbers, my name is Jesse Meek and this is podcast number 58 for you need a budget where we teach you four rules to help you

stop living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt, and save more money. Today I'm going to

tell you about a massive accomplishment that I have under my belt now.

I've been thinking a lot about retirement, not that I'm going to, not in that way.

I'm thinking about retirement in general.

Not totally sold on the idea from the outset, honestly. I think I'd like to stay busy and

sane. But in thinking about planning for your retirement, or maybe just when you down shift a little bit,

the number one killer to your nest egg, number one that you can control is your expenses. And so I've been thinking a lot about that, the

expenses. And then I read a book recommended by a friend where a lady, the

book was called Seven, it's a Christian book if you're interested, and I quite enjoyed it.

This lady takes a stand on seven

issues over seven months. The first month she eats seven foods.

That's it. The second month she only wears seven items

items of clothing not including underwear.

There was one month where she did some serious like cut down on waste, recycled a ton.

That was cool. I liked what she had to say about taking care of, you know, taking care of your food, like growing your own food and all of that, so they started a garden.

Anyway, there was a lot of cool

stuff there there were it was excellent if you like if you're along the lines of

the Christian genre that was I honestly read more non-fiction like how-to. So this was a little bit of a break

from the pack, so to speak. But she inspired me. I think her name is, I can't remember the author's name now, darn it, I think it's Jen. Jen something, books called

seven. I was in line voting and this lady asked me what I was reading.

The line was two and a half hours long to vote.

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