Hello, Winebers, my name is Jesse Meek.

This is podcast number 295 for Wineb,

where we teach you four rules to help you stop them

in paycheck to paycheck, get out out of debt and save more money.

Lifestyle creep is real.

And I sometimes, as I'm talking with Julie and we're reminiscing probably because we're looking

through Google photos and we happened to land clear back in 2004 and we see our first apartment and I remember

that we paid $350 per month for it utilities included that included a phone

It was attached to a wall with a cord, but it was a phone nonetheless

350 bucks per month. I feel like I sneeze and lose $350 sometimes. It's crazy.

Our first couch, it was a gift. It was a gift from some people for only $25.

I'll call it a gift.

Yeah, I don't know how many other owners

this couch had gone through.

It was a futon, which was useful,

because when people would stay at our apartment you could just

you know have that futon become a bed. It was a nasty nasty thing. We also had another couch that we had to pick up because the futon broke and that couch cost us $25.

We did splurge for a cover for the couch because the actual couch was so nasty and so old so uncomfortable and still people would sit there.

I have some nice photos of me sitting on there with Porter you, and he's like a month old. And he lived. And our first

department, we had respiratory issues. I recall. Our throats always just, there was something

off and we were living in a basement apartment and

there's something off with the air in there and yeah we've they cleared up the whole problem cleared up

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