Dear College Student
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Are you a college student, or about to go to college? It's an exciting time of your life, but it can also be a very expensive time of your life too. It's possible to keep your spending under control, and have a lot of fun, but you're going to need a budget.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Jesse Meakum and this is podcast number 511 for Wine Abroad. |
| 0:09.4 | We teach you four rules to help you stop with a paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt |
| 0:12.6 | and save more money. |
| 0:14.5 | Or you college students, you going on to that higher transformative education, maybe we |
| 0:21.6 | can help you to not get into so much debt in the first place or maybe you can just use |
| 0:26.8 | it as a time to not just transform your mind, but also your money mindset. |
| 0:32.2 | College is a unique time where frankly you can get by on the cheap and when I think back |
| 0:37.5 | to the ways that Julian and I lived while we were both in college, it was awesome. |
| 0:42.6 | You can do it once that way so I would encourage you to just pull out all the stops. |
| 0:48.7 | Now I want to say specifically, you really need a budget and less do you think I'm coming |
| 0:59.1 | from that space of all that old guy, you know, he's just telling us what to do. |
| 1:04.7 | Well I was you and I recognized that Julian, I did need a budget, hence well hence this |
| 1:11.8 | whole thing. |
| 1:12.9 | We were in college and recognized that we had to watch our pennies and pennies are if inflation |
| 1:19.2 | wise, they're non-existent now, but back then you'd watch your pennies and we rise we |
| 1:24.3 | had to and that's what inspired me to create this little spread. |
| 1:27.5 | She just for me and Julie, where we could watch said pennies, but college is a great time, |
| 1:33.6 | not just for you to kind of explore all kinds of thinking, not just to become an expert |
| 1:39.2 | in a field or at least lay the groundwork for eventual expertise in a field, but it's |
| 1:44.2 | also a time where you can just kind of say, you know, I'm going to live this way because |
| 1:49.0 | I can. |
| 1:50.0 | I'm allowed to. |
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