253 - Budgeting is Boring. Let's All Just Admit That.
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2016
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Let's face it. If you're doing it right, it's downright boring.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Wineavers. My name is Jesse Meekam, and is podcast number 253 for Wiena. |
| 0:14.4 | Where we teach you four rules to help you stop them from paycheck to paycheck, |
| 0:18.0 | get out of debt and save more money. |
| 0:21.0 | It's now December, and well it doesn't feel like a boring month it should be a |
| 0:26.6 | boring month. You should be busy there's plenty to do. There's plenty of things to take care |
| 0:31.9 | of. Heaven knows I just spent a good chunk of the weekend working on a tree, but it's financially boring, right? Budgeting, if done well, it turns out, makes things financially really boring. |
| 0:50.4 | And Christmas, the holidays, all of that, |
| 0:53.0 | while stressful to many, unfortunately, |
| 0:55.0 | that haven't yet heard anything about |
| 0:58.0 | why and haven't yet adopted our crazy ways |
| 1:01.0 | for the rest of us, those of us that spent 12 months saving up for this month, it's just |
| 1:06.9 | another boring month. |
| 1:08.9 | Actually, there's nothing boring about it. |
| 1:10.5 | It's a lot of fun. |
| 1:12.2 | It's a lot of fun to be able to purchase gifts, give people gifts, enjoy |
| 1:17.0 | the season, travel, extravagantly purchase, delicious food, and enjoy time with family and friends. |
| 1:25.6 | Nothing boring about that but financially so so boring. |
| 1:30.6 | And when the tire blows out and you just fix it, it's boring. When the |
| 1:34.7 | transmission goes out and you have the money there, that's boring. When you go on |
| 1:40.1 | vacation, you don't have to worry about the money while the vacation is fun |
| 1:44.3 | again financially it's boring and I guess that's what we're trying to do here |
| 1:50.0 | the budget makes your finances boring. |
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