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The Ramsey Show Highlights

$140,000 in Credit Card Debt!

The Ramsey Show Highlights

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Self-improvement, Education, Investing, Business

4.6682 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0

brought to you by the every dollar app start budgeting for free today so i'm 60 i'm a nurse

0:08.3

my husband 69 he's retired and he i guess retirement and you know running around and and uh you know

0:17.8

living the life which he should after you, 40 years in the oil field,

0:21.8

he got into gambling.

0:24.3

And so he'd, you know, run up to Oklahoma and do some gambling and all this.

0:28.9

How bad is it?

0:30.7

Right.

0:31.4

So last August, I really got involved with the Ramsey stuff.

0:37.1

And I thought, wow, this is pretty impressive.

0:38.7

And so I got his book, you know, the financial freedom.

0:45.6

And then I also got Dr. Deloni's book of the non-anx life because he was stressed about, you know,

0:52.6

retired and all that and kind of running around, didn't really know what to do after being such a workaholic. And so since then,

0:59.1

he's gotten help for the gambling. He's really, he stopped. I mean, it's like it was a phase,

1:03.5

but that phase left us about $150,000 in debt. What kind of debt? Credit cards?

1:09.5

Well, credit cards, yes. Good. God almighty. And I know. And he was,

1:17.3

you know, really embarrassed. And how I found out about this, I mean, I have a few credit cards,

1:23.3

and I'll use them, you know, go to work, get gas, you know, you know, whatever, pay them off, whatever.

1:30.9

And so he's always had his own credit cards, business credit cards and so forth.

1:35.2

And I never, and I know it sounds irresponsible because he's so responsible, never paid, never paid attention and never been a problem before, you know, this. So I got the

1:49.0

financial freedom book and I was going through everything and I was like, okay, let's lay everything

1:53.8

out. And he very shamefacedly produced these bills.

2:02.7

Did your heart stop, Liz?

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