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The YNAB Podcast

190 - The Value of a Fresh Start

The YNAB Podcast

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Consolidation, Total, Budget, Dave, Peace, Money, A, Education, Ynab, Finance, Bankruptcy, Makeover, Fpu, Software, Management, Personal, Need, Ramsey, Financial, University, Debt, Kids & Family, You

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2015

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Every once in a while, the budget needs good shave. A fresh start, if you will.

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0:00.0

Hello, whinabbers my name is Jesse Meekum and this is podcast number 190 for you need a budget.

0:15.0

Where we teach you four rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck,

0:18.0

get out of debt and save more money.

0:21.0

Every five years, I get permission to shape

0:27.9

my head. It's my favorite haircut. It's very maintainable. It doesn't require a lot of shampoo.

0:37.0

It doesn't require a lot of maintenance at all and don't need to comb it.

0:42.0

Don't need to worry about bedhead or anything like that.

0:45.0

It's a wonderful haircut.

0:47.0

It's cool in a summer breeze.

0:50.0

That's all I can think of at the moment, but I shaved my head and I was reminded of budgeting.

0:58.0

This happens to me a lot. I was reminded of the fresh start.

1:02.0

My hair had kind of done its thing. It had just kind of grown into

1:06.3

something that yeah I was just like I was surprised at how the hair was

1:10.7

growing and are we not surprised at times when the budget just kind of

1:15.2

grows a little out of control? Where we're thinking, wait, I've been following the rules,

1:21.3

I've been prioritizing. We've been prioritizing we've been doing our monthly budget

1:24.0

meetings or even more frequently what happened well you get just kind of into the normal

1:29.3

routine and every once in a while because that normal routine just kind of lulls you into, what's the word,

1:37.8

complacency, you just aren't really checking things, you aren't really asking yourself what are my

1:44.0

priorities so every once in a while you just do a fresh start literally with the

1:50.5

budget you just go up to file and I think it says create or start

1:54.0

fresh or create a fresh start or something like that it's the one of the most

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