Hello, Wienabbers. My name is Jesse Meekin with another episode of the Wienab

podcast and I'm here each week to obsess.

Out loud to y'all about spending purposefully, saving aspirationally, and even

giving joyfully. It all comes down to just four simple habits and I want to talk about extremes today.

On one hand, you have the extreme of someone saying,

you know, I just don't want to look at my money.

I know it's, I know it's I know it's bad right like things are tight and I'm just gonna just kind of wince

Squeeze my eyes shut hope everything works out just kind of keep the faith

cross my fingers

cross my heart hope to die all those things and

and you're just kind of distancing yourself from the money and that does not create any kind of good outcome.

It's just you're you're turtling you know you're just kind of like I'm just I'm running away I'm just running away I'm just running for cover.

So there's that when things are tight we just we don't want to look at it, like get me some

distance between me and this money. And then on the other side of it, you might even

have that person be like, man, wouldn't it be nice? Wouldn't it be nice if I just didn't have to worry about money?

And they're imagining someone that makes plenty of money,

their expenses are low, maybe they don't carry a lot of debt,

they don't have a lot of obligations, they don't have a lot of obligations, and they just

have a lot more money coming in than money going out.

They're living well within their means, and the person that has experienced this very tight financial situation,

as probably most of us have, I would imagine,

they just kind of say, man, wouldn't it be nice?

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