Hello, Winevers. My name is Jesse Meekham and this is podcast number 349 for Wineb, where we teach

you four rules to help you stop leaving paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt and save more money.

I've been thinking a lot about big goals and I know I've talked about this quite a bit

here on the podcast, but I'm starting to feel it and I'm starting to feel like it's working in that I'm I've been really working on myself in trying to relax as it relates to

Purchases usually of the smaller variety.

And we do have a black box category. It's currently named Other.

Sometimes people will name it miscellaneous.

We have it called Other.

And frankly, a lot of stuff that is of the Amazon.com

variety lands in the other category,

partially because I don't want to look up exactly what it was.

You know, was it a book or was it, you know, hot pads or was it batteries?

So it's just other.

And that's, it kind of does bother me,

especially if the other number is fairly large

because you don't exactly know what's going on and maybe you do want to know, maybe you should

know, maybe you could optimize and squeeze a little more out of it.

But I've been fighting that tendency to squeeze and squeeze and ever optimize.

And I've been really just trying to be content

with setting goals, specifically contributions

to retirement, giving, and a few big priority categories,

specifically travel.

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