Hello, whinnebers. My name is Jesse Meekham and this is podcast number 169 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... and save more money. I killed eight of my fruit trees just recently. I read about pruning. I planted the trees three years ago. I had

four apple and four peach. I had already lost two pair because pair trees allegedly apparently and

obviously now do not do well in my neck of the woods and I lost two peach trees I

think because of my dog. May she rest in bees. But the remaining four

peach trees, four apple trees, one non-fruing but flowering pear tree, and some other tree that was planted early on that I don't remember.

I killed those, killed them good.

I read about pruning quite a bit and

thought this seems logical and I studied it out in my mind and read everything I could get my hands on for about 15 minutes

and then I went out with some fairly large shears and started cutting. And I would

went out with some fairly large shears and started cutting. I would tilt my head to the side,

look at the tree as if I knew what I was doing,

and then I would cut some more,

and then I would cut more, and then I would kind of lean my head to the other side and give it a quizzical look, maybe squint.

Like I was hard, you know, deep in thought and I was working on some hard question and I would cut a little more.

At the end of the day I think, I mean I had this guy come out, he's a tree expert. I said, hey, so how do these trees look and he took one look at

him and said, yeah, you're, these are gone, these won't do anything anymore. So we're planting new trees.

We're starting fresh. Which isn't a bad idea for a lot of you in regards to your budget.

I'm still sad about the trees.

Don't write to me and console me.

I'm inconsolable.

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