Hello, whinnebers. My name is Jesse Meekham and this is podcast number 119 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.

When something financially unexpected happens, some kind of an emergency

for which you were not ready and which you did not see coming. You will ask

yourself well what the heck is going on where is this money going to come from

and you ask yourself that question out of exasperation and from a place of stress, worry.

And that question you asked yourself is solid.

It's a perfect question.

I think it's a great question. I think it shows how financially astute you are.

Yeah, you didn't see this emergency coming, whatever it may be. Property taxes, life insurance, Christmas.

You should have seen Christmas coming. But be that as it may, you ask yourself,

where is this money going to come from?

And that is the best question to ask.

Because then you sit down with your budget,

and you say,

okay, we've got to cover those tires that just blew out

and we were underfunding our car repair category

is something fierce.

So what are we going to do?

We are at $16 in the repairs category.

We were funding $1 per month.

We've been using Wine App for 16 months. We thought our repairs were solid, but we didn't have enough. The tires cost 400.

So you learn, okay, car repairs are more than a buck a month.

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