Hello, Wine Embers. My name is Jesse Meekam, and this is podcast number 164 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.

This is part five of a seven-part series on Budgeting with a partner. And today I want to

talk about what were my notes here? Ah yes, the budgeting party.

It can be a party or it can be an absolute disaster

and you can walk away in a huff and it's no fun at all.

I promote the idea of the party.

It doesn't have to be extravagant, but just making it at all

fun in some way goes a long way,

especially if there's a reluctant party involved.

And I mean, by party, I mean person, not the budgeting party itself.

So liven it up a little bit and see what you can do to make it a little more fun.

Sometimes a little treat goes a long way, maybe something to drink, maybe some music. I have no idea how you all roll but just something besides staring at the

computer screen,

does a lot.

The iPad lets you budget, and we're working on the other stuff,

don't worry, but the iPad lets you budget

and I have a report from Taylor our

CTO that they enjoy just lying in bed and moving money around on the iPad.

Julie and I sit down at the computer down in the office.

We usually pound it out there.

Honestly, what I do now, I do the preemptive strike

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