Hey Nerd Chill
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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A message for the budgeting nerds
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Winebers my name is Jesse Meekham and this is podcast number |
| 0:08.8 | 368 for Wineen where we teach you four rules to help you stop living paycheck to pay check, get out of debt and save more money. |
| 0:17.0 | Last week I talked to the free spirits and I don't normally get so preachy at least I don't think I do and I kind of did and if you're a free spirit maybe you felt a little beat up on I hope you didn't unsubscribe to the podcast because you know here's the flip side the you nerds you nerds you that think everyone |
| 0:38.4 | wants to budget all the time and reconcile their accounts all the time and be up to date by the day every |
| 0:44.9 | morning first thing all the time to the penny and you actually kind of like it |
| 0:49.6 | when the transactions aren't matching up yet, |
| 0:52.7 | because you know that finding the offending transaction, |
| 0:56.9 | creating the offending imbalance |
| 0:58.6 | will be even more satisfying. |
| 1:01.3 | You nerds need to chill out just a little bit. You need to recognize that not |
| 1:07.2 | everyone enjoys what you so sadistically enjoy. Not everyone likes spreadsheets and calculations and |
| 1:16.3 | scenarios and multivariate analysis and Monte Carlo simulations. |
| 1:23.0 | Most people don't really want to spend their extra hours on a weekend dabbling in spreadsheets and |
| 1:30.3 | moving numbers around between the budget categories just to quote |
| 1:34.0 | see what it feels like. You nerds need to chill out. If you're married to another |
| 1:40.8 | nerd heaven help you. |
| 1:43.0 | Your house must be just a ball of laughs. |
| 1:47.5 | It just must be amazingly exciting, very spontaneous. |
| 1:51.4 | No, I'm just kidding. |
| 1:52.3 | But it can be dangerous. I am speaking more |
| 1:56.0 | specifically to the nerd married to the free spirit though where you're sharing |
| 1:59.6 | finances together and you are at an impasse. It may be that you need to seed some ground. It may |
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