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The Jesse Mecham Show

302 - The Costs of "Settling In"

The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB

Kids & Family, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2017

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Settle in fast, because it's expensive not to.

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0:00.0

Hello, Winebers. My name is Jesse Meekham and this is Podcast 3002 for Wineb.

0:09.0

Where we teach you four rules to help you stop up in paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt and save more money.

0:16.9

We are settling in here in New York.

0:19.2

Maybe we've already settled in.

0:20.3

It doesn't feel like it because it is so expensive.

0:23.0

Have you ever noticed that when you are settling in,

0:26.0

whether it be to a new school year, the summer vacation,

0:30.0

a vacation specifically,

0:32.0

perhaps the new year, a new house, a new

0:33.2

year, house, a new job, a new relationship, all sorts of new things.

0:38.8

All sorts of new things.

0:41.4

They all require settling in. And settling in is another way of. all suddenly you just need to settle in again. You need to get in your groove. We can be often

0:57.0

confused and maybe we fall for the trap of thinking there's a normal month just around the bend, just over the horizon, just around

1:05.9

that second corner or skyscraper in my situation right now.

1:11.6

But what we're really talking about is the cost of settling in.

1:15.9

And I noticed it here as we just did just a little three-month move to New York where

1:20.6

suddenly we didn't have salt in the apartment. We didn't have

1:24.2

flower. We didn't have any pasta. We didn't have any canned anything. Empty

1:29.4

cupboards. So by definition settling in means it's a little expensive.

1:33.5

Suddenly you got to go out and buy all those staples in a tiny little grocery

1:36.6

store where they charge really large prices. Tiny grocery store, huge prices.

1:40.5

That's just how it works apparently. Then you find out about delivering, you start

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