227 - A Report on Our "Cash is King" Budget
The Jesse Mecham Show
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🗓️ 6 June 2016
⏱️ 7 minutes
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A report on our "Cash is King" budget where I talk about the ups and downs experienced so far.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Winebers my name is Jesse Meekman, this is podcast number two twenty seven for |
| 0:13.5 | Wineb where we teach you four rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck get |
| 0:17.8 | out of debt and save more money. Wineb stands for you need a budget. Right now, Julie and I, Julie and my wife, we are trying to, |
| 0:27.0 | we're experimenting with the cash budget, a little bit, a little bit of cash. |
| 0:31.0 | We've got very few categories on the budget i'm actually gonna pull out |
| 0:34.9 | my phone right now because of course it's on the phone |
| 0:38.2 | point it out right now on lock in the screen |
| 0:41.1 | point it open and let you all know what the categories are. |
| 0:45.4 | Master categories are saving, spending, and credit card payments. |
| 0:50.1 | We use two credit cards, soon to be one. An Amex for Costco only and it's basically a |
| 0:56.7 | Costco card, Amex combined and a Visa. And we're combining that down to just a Costco Visa card here pretty soon. |
| 1:04.0 | TMI, sorry about that. |
| 1:06.0 | The other master, so master category, savings, spending, and the credit card payments. |
| 1:09.0 | So we basically have saving and spending. |
| 1:11.0 | In the savings category, or savings master category group, we've got our emergency fund. |
| 1:16.8 | It's topped up at about six months expenses, five, six. |
| 1:21.1 | Travel because it's important to Julie and me, Christmas because it's important |
| 1:26.7 | to us, car replacement because it will eventually need to happen. |
| 1:31.3 | And we have a pretty good sum in the car replacement category, but the cars will go for a long while still. |
| 1:37.0 | And landscaping actually has a savings category, because that's brand new, because we want to do some backyard landscaping. |
| 1:44.1 | It'll be quite a project. |
| 1:46.3 | In the spending group we've got giving, that's the tithing, fast offering, other |
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