How Do I Justify Buying a New Truck?
Ramsey Everyday Millionaires
Ramsey Network
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🗓️ 4 March 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Ramsay every day millionaires or we talk retirement building wealth and outrageous generosity. |
| 0:12.5 | Sean is with us in Colorado Springs. Hey Sean welcome to the Ramsay show. |
| 0:18.5 | Thank you for taking my call Dave. How you doing? Better than I deserve. What's up? |
| 0:23.5 | So down in daily normal life for a long time, it's been on baby step seven and three baby step seven. Good for you. |
| 0:32.5 | And we have our six month emergency fund based on offer. How much we know we can live off of in a year. |
| 0:39.5 | We have saved up a lot of money. This recently came back from the point that we saved up the special amount of money that you should sit in there. |
| 0:46.5 | We've saved up a lot of money. We've saved up a lot of money. We've saved up a lot of money. We've saved up a lot of money. |
| 0:55.5 | So the question is, I have an old day's end and beat or truck. And everybody keeps telling me, hey man, you've been so well, why don't you upgrade? |
| 1:04.5 | All you need for this is, I know I'm a million retirement. The wife of state work. I'll be in the time and I still got to wait on that. |
| 1:19.5 | I'm going to see you come up or if I'm just being too stingy with myself and I get to live a little bit and upgrade. We are worth, we are going to many years. So you're, you know, your policy is worth a million dollars or more cash for the vehicle. |
| 1:34.5 | But I got other things come up like a certain time. Do I upgrade or do I just hold off? |
| 1:41.5 | How expensive a trucker you're talking about buying? |
| 1:45.5 | I don't think I can ever just out now buy a brand new vehicle, especially right now, either twice as much that you could be. |
| 1:53.5 | Let's pretend that you did. What was how expensive a truck would that be? What would you spend? |
| 1:59.5 | 60,000. |
| 2:00.5 | And you have a net worth of what? |
| 2:04.5 | 1.2 million. |
| 2:05.5 | And a household income of what? |
| 2:08.5 | Approximately 100 to 120,000 a year. |
| 2:12.5 | The way I make decisions on things like this is I ask myself because this is just a luxury item. |
| 2:21.5 | Okay, it's just something fun to buy. It's all it is, right? |
| 2:26.5 | Not necessarily. |
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