I'm 61 With No Retirement
The Ramsey Show Highlights
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4.5 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by CHM, a biblically based alternative to health insurance. |
| 0:06.3 | Learn more at CH Ministries.org slash budget. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm 61 years old, newly single. |
| 0:14.2 | I live in Lankham Housing. |
| 0:17.2 | I have 22,000 left over from the sale of my house in Oregon, and I don't know what to do. |
| 0:32.1 | Newly single. |
| 0:34.3 | Dvorced? |
| 0:36.7 | Sorry, what did you say? You said newly single. Are what did you say you said newly single are you divorced |
| 0:40.5 | yes sir okay what do you do for a living I work at a training setter I'm |
| 0:49.0 | in cash here but I only get about $ hours a week. |
| 0:55.4 | Okay. |
| 0:59.2 | So what are we doing to get a better job? |
| 0:59.9 | That one sucks. |
| 1:05.7 | They're, um, |
| 1:10.4 | because of my bad needs, I, a i have a bunch of stuff in a storage in it that needs to be sold |
| 1:18.7 | that one what i asked i ask what you're doing to get a better job the job you have sucks nothing |
| 1:24.9 | right now okay you're a cashier and you can't stand. And you got 20, |
| 1:29.5 | and you got 25 hours a week. So we need to, we need a job. Yes, sir. That's true. You're |
| 1:35.5 | starving to death? Not technically because I still have the, not technically, but I mean, |
| 1:42.4 | mathematically, you don't have any money is my point. That is correct. And the reason is you don't have much income. So we've got to work on your career, kiddo. Yeah, and I have no retirement. Zero. Well, we've got to work on your career, kiddo. You got $22,000 in the bank, and you're living in a rental property, and you sold your house, you've gone through a divorce. Okay. And you're scared, which is understandable, okay? Not to mention stressed. Yeah, stressed and scared. Well, that's fair. Okay. But let's just pretend for a second. if we could wave a wand and we don't have a wand, and we're not going to do it. |
| 2:21.6 | I know. |
| 2:22.0 | But let's pretend for a second. |
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