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Money Guy Show

"Can I Stop Investing to Pay for a Car?"

Money Guy Show

Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors

Investing, Education, Business

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Does it ever make sense to pause or slow down investing in order to buy a car? We'll walk you through that question and more in today's Q&A episode! Jump start your journey with our FREE financial resources Reach your goals faster with our products Take the relationship to the next level: become a client Subscribe on YouTube for early access and go beyond the podcast Connect with us on social media for more content Bring confidence to your wealth building with simplified strategies from The Money Guy. Learn how to apply financial tactics that go beyond common sense and help you reach your money goals faster. Make your assets do the heavy lifting so you can quit worrying and start living a more fulfilled life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Okay, Jim V's question is up next.

0:07.0

He says, Question for the Money Guy Show, we have two teens in college, their college is fully

0:16.0

funded, and their Roth IRA is started.

0:19.6

How else can we help our kids for the next 10 to 15 years?

0:24.0

We have no financial worries.

0:25.5

So they're kind of like, how do we maximize and set our kids up

0:28.1

for even more success?

0:30.0

Well, I have a thought.

0:32.3

And this will sound terse, you have a college,

0:34.8

you have a college kid, so you can tell me if this is insensitive,

0:37.5

but I think about this, right?

0:38.6

My kids are not quite yet in college, not even really. Not quite. But one of the things that I think to myself is as they go off to college, I've

0:48.7

recognized the influence that I'm going to have on them will be much less than when I had them in the household.

0:53.8

So a lot of the heavy lifting I need to do around, setting them up and teaching them how to think about money and teaching them how to make wise financial decisions really

1:03.6

is to happen before they leave the house because once they're out of the house

1:07.3

they're a little bit out of my control at that point they're a little bit out of

1:12.1

the influence that I get to have on them.

1:14.7

So it's wonderful that you guys are in a fantastic financial situation.

1:19.1

I think it's great that you said your kids have started Roth IRAs. Now I would be curious, did they start

1:25.9

Roth IRAs? Did they have some part or some piece of that or did you start Roth IRAs

1:31.4

on their behalf? Because we see this happen both ways.

1:33.7

And in my opinion, the kids that generally turn out

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