Hello, whinnebbers, My name is Jesse Meekam, and this is podcast number 62 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.

I went into debt yesterday.

I'll tell you more about that in just a second. I broke two of my rules that I thought

I had in one day, two of my financial rules. They were, never borrow money for a car, never buy a new car, and broke both of them yesterday.

This is the car edition. This is the Jesse broke both of his car buying rules edition.

Let me tell you how it went down. Started five years ago,

let me tell you a little bit of history. Julie and I bought a Chevy Prism a few months after we were married.

Before that we didn't know the car.

The Chevy Prism is one of the best kept secrets in used car-dom.

It's a Toyota Corolla built in the same factory as the Toyota Corolla, except it had

Chevy on it so you didn't have to pay for the Toyota symbol.

And that car rocked.

I mean, it was awesome. So we bought that. It was anyway we bought that. It was a great car. Then on our way to Dallas when we were moving to work for that accounting firm, it

ran over something and it totaled the car.

So then we went to Dallas, planning to buy two cars instead of just well we were

planning on buying one car a family car and then having the you know the

prison for me to commute in but that was totaled. So we bought two cars. We bought a

Honda Civic and a Toyota Sienna, sweet van, and it was a white Toyota Siena.

I was with my friend driving my civic to work one day

and that thing was pulling so hard to the right.

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