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The Jesse Mecham Show

245 - Budgets & Butlers

The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB

Kids & Family, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2016

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Your budget is your deferential butler. Don't you agree, sir?

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0:00.0

Hello, whinabers my name is Jesse Meekham and this is podcast number 245 for Wineb.

0:14.8

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

0:17.9

get out of debt and save more money.

0:20.4

Sometimes I wish this was our call-in show so people could call in and ask me questions

0:23.7

and sometimes I'm really glad it's not because it's just fun to speak out into the

0:28.0

ether and not have anything complex fired back at me. I'm just kidding.

0:32.1

But seriously, who do you ask for help? You ask

0:35.6

Google if you have a money question? Or could you ask your budget? Could you just say, hey budget?

0:40.9

How much is left in groceries? And the budget would tell you. Hey budget, I just

0:45.1

spent $40 at Walmart for toothpaste. Really good toothpaste. And the budget would act accordingly. Or hey, you know,

0:58.0

what's check my vacation category. How does that look? And the budget would tell you.

1:02.0

At the end of the day when you have a money question you are really

1:06.0

I mean you are the source of the knowledge but the budget structures it in a way where

1:11.0

you can kind of pretend that it's it's a butler for you. The budget is

1:15.0

deferential, it backs off if you really want something like a good butler, okay sir,

1:20.0

I apologize sir, absolutely sir, no problem sir. But the budget or butler will sometimes

1:26.1

jump in there and interject a little bit and save you from yourself, perhaps.

1:31.7

Doesn't Alfred do that with Bruce Wayne sometimes? I think so.

1:35.0

So at the end of the day the Butler who you employ can kind of turn around and check you a little bit.

1:43.0

And the budget that you employ is the same way.

1:46.5

The budget works for you, but sometimes you feel like,

1:50.0

oh, maybe I'm answering to the budget.

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