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The Ramsey Show Highlights

I Don’t Think I Can Help You, Dude

The Ramsey Show Highlights

Ramsey Network

Self-improvement, Education, Investing, Business

4.6682 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:06.5

Jacob is with us in Macon, Georgia. Hi, Jacob. Welcome to the Ramsey Show.

0:11.7

Hey, Dave. How you doing? Better than I deserve. What's up?

0:15.9

Well, I went a little bit crazy last year.

0:20.6

Me and my wife jumped on a journey to pay down as much debt as possible.

0:26.0

We paid off $240,000 last year.

0:28.8

Way to go.

0:29.4

But I also spent everything I had in my savings, everything that we had made together.

0:36.6

I mean, I unloaded just about everything

0:38.6

into it. We still got $14,000, you know, between savings and checkings. I got $5,000 in cash.

0:47.6

But I need a tractor to be able to take care of my property. And I know you are 100% against, you know, any kind of financing, but you've tracked

0:57.6

to these days between, you know, 50,000 and 60,000 to be able to have the right size

1:02.3

to do, you know, my property.

1:06.6

So I don't know, you know, is financing okay, especially at 0% for 60 months or?

1:18.3

Yeah, so you went crazy getting out of debt and you know that we tell people not to borrow money, and you called here wanting to finance a tractor.

1:29.5

I just don't know.

1:31.2

Like I said, I think I kind of put myself into a boat.

1:34.1

My property is going to end up taking over.

1:37.1

What do you make a year?

1:40.8

Last year we made $210,000.

1:44.9

I am laid off my job.

1:49.5

And so I'm going off of my wife's income at the moment, and she's a women's health nurse practitioner.

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