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The Jesse Mecham Show

296 - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB

Kids & Family, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2017

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...does your budget look like it as well?

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0:00.0

Hello, Winebbers. My name is Jesse Meekham and this is

0:07.0

podcast number 296 for Wineb, where we teach you four rules to help you

0:11.0

stop living paycheck to paycheck and get out of debt and save more money.

0:15.6

It is beginning.

0:17.6

You know I'm going to say this, to look a lot like Christmas because you probably went into Costco and they already have all

0:27.0

their trees up and it's the middle of October and pretty soon it'll be the

0:31.4

middle of July and everyone will be hanging stockings.

0:35.0

I just, but it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

0:39.8

And I would just ask you one question and I'm going to make this podcast short because

0:43.0

last week's was so long and ask you one question does your Christmas or

0:47.7

holiday spending I say Christmas because you guys know I do the Christmas thing but

0:51.5

whatever your holiday is is that holiday budget

0:56.4

Does it look like it's ready? So everywhere around you it all looks like Christmas, but does your category balance look like Christmas?

1:06.7

Or is it look like maybe it's still only February because you've been underfunding it the whole time?

1:11.4

So you just want to make sure that you constantly, well

1:16.2

not constantly, that you at the beginning of the year assess what you will spend

1:20.9

for Christmas, divide that amount by 12, and then you've

1:25.5

given yourself a Christmas bill. I actually had the idea a while ago and I

1:29.2

should run with this where we could set up a bill service that we totally fake and you could sign up for it through

1:36.0

Wienab and you would say here's how much I'm going to spend and then we would send you a bill

1:42.1

through email and it would look like a bill and it

1:46.4

would be a Christmas bill and then you would just market as paid or unpaid and we could

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