1426: Stop The House Shaming, People by J. Money of Budgets Are Sexy on Should I Rent or Buy a Home

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🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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J. Money of Budgets Are Sexy has had enough of the house shaming. Episode 1426: Stop The House Shaming, People by J. Money of Budgets Are Sexy on Should I Rent or Buy a Home J. Money is a 6’1, hyperactive, rock a ‘hawk who loves drinking beer, blaring hip-hop, talking about money, and now playing with his two adorable baby boys. He tracked his expenses for 3 months, made a budget, read some books, and stumbled into personal finance blogging and idea sharing, randomly turning BudgetsAreSexy.com into his full time “real job” a few short years later--14 million views later! The original post is located here: https://www.budgetsaresexy.com/stop-house-shaming/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalFinanceDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Finance Daily, episode 1426.
0:04.0	Stop the How Shaming People by Jay Money of budgetsorsexy.com
0:09.6	and I'm your host and personal finance enthusiast, Diana Mariam.
0:13.7	This is a show where I reach you from the best personal finance blogs on the web,
0:17.6	with the author's permission, of course.
0:20.0	For now, let's get right to it and continue optimizing your life.
0:23.2	Stop the How Shaming People by Jay Money of budgetsorsexy.com
0:32.7	Last week, three different people emailed me asking for advice
0:37.7	because they keep getting pressured by friends and family, especially family,
0:42.2	to buy a home when neither one of them wants to.
0:45.8	I got so riled up after the last message that I shot the following tweet out which caused
0:50.8	quite the hubbub for a hot minute or so.
0:53.8	Quote, third note I've received on people feeling pressured to buy a house when they don't want to.
0:59.5	Stop the How Shaming People.
1:01.6	It's perfectly fine to rent.
1:03.5	And yes, hashtag How Shaming is now a thing.
1:06.5	End quote.
1:07.8	As it turns out, I wasn't alone in this thinking.
1:11.1	Here's some of the messages and stories I got throughout the day.
1:14.7	Quote, being already brewed in a ton of debt didn't even shield me from the How Shaming.
1:19.8	It doesn't stop.
1:21.0	The stress of getting out of my existing debt has soured me on taking out a mortgage,
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