Don't Scrooge Yourself Next Christmas
The YNAB Podcast
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🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Ebenezer Scrooge is a classic Christmas tale, a tragic character who lets his insatiable desire for money blind him to the circumstances of the people around him -- particularly his employees -- and the spirit of the Christmas holiday. He didn't even seem to enjoy spending his wealth, only the accumulation of it. While Scrooge is not a good role model for generosity or charity, he did always pay his bills on time.
Next Christmas you can give yourself a bill, or rather give yourself a bill now, and every month between now and next Christmas! Think of the things you want to buy and do next Christmas (not just gifts, but travel and cooking) and add up how much you think you'll spend. Divide it by twelve, and that's your bill to be paid each month between now and December 25, 2025. Then you can spend your money in a way Scrooge never could -- on gifts and family and generosity.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, everybody, before we get started, I need to confess something. Sometimes it's a little lonely. |
| 0:07.0 | It's a little lonely out here, just me and the mic. And so I am very excited to let you know about the |
| 0:14.1 | 2025 Wineab Fan Fest tour. We're going to be in several cities. You may have heard already, |
| 0:19.8 | but next year, 2025, we're going to be in first cities. You may have heard already, but next year, 2025, |
| 0:21.5 | we're going to be in first San Diego, then Minneapolis, and then New York. The tickets for |
| 0:27.9 | San Diego and Minneapolis are on sale now. You can go to whinap.com slash events. They're an all-day |
| 0:34.8 | event. We've got keynotes, a live Q&A, panel discussions, food, |
| 0:40.3 | really good food, really good food. merch, fantastic merch. You can meet a lot of the different |
| 0:45.9 | YNAM people, including myself, but many of the veteran others. They will be having all kinds |
| 0:52.8 | of fun, but most importantly, you can just know that as the budget |
| 0:57.5 | nerds ben and urnay like to say you are not alone come prove it at the yinaab fan fest again tickets |
| 1:05.8 | for san diego and minneapolis are on sale now winab dot com slash events to buy one and also tickets for new york city will go on sale now. Wynab.com slash events to buy one. |
| 1:11.9 | And also tickets for New York City will go on sale soon. |
| 1:14.7 | You can sign up at that same link, |
| 1:16.3 | whinap.com slash events for notifications on when those go on sale. |
| 1:20.8 | They will sell out. |
| 1:32.7 | Hello, Winehabers. My name is Jesse Meekam with another episode of the WineAmp podcast, |
| 1:37.4 | and I'm here each week to obsess out a lot about spending purposefully, saving aspirationally, |
| 1:41.9 | and giving joyfully. It all comes down to just four simple rules. |
| 1:44.6 | And giving joyfully. |
| 1:45.6 | I mean, here we are. |
| 1:49.1 | We're two days out if you listen to these on time. |
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