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The Ramsey Show Highlights

I Racked Up $123,000 of Debt In One Year

The Ramsey Show Highlights

Ramsey Network

Investing, Self-improvement, Education, Business

4.5840 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:04.3

Start budgeting for free today.

0:06.3

So I'm on baby step number two, and my question is, how do I implement it properly if my budget only allows for minimum payments?

0:16.7

Something's got to change.

0:19.1

So your income has to go up or your outgo has to go down.

0:22.0

We've got to sell something that's got dead on it.

0:24.2

What do you owe on your cars?

0:26.3

So I made a couple of bad decisions in the last year.

0:30.2

$123,000 of this bet has just, I've just accumulated in the last year.

0:36.3

On what?

0:36.9

Vehicle. So I have about $1. has just, I've just accumulated in the last year. On what? My vehicle.

0:44.7

So, um, I have about, I had a couple of bad decisions that I saw a year ago. I was in a good financial space.

0:46.8

Um, and I, I had a rental income, uh, rental property that needed some work.

0:52.7

And I took out a $40,000, um, key lock so that I could do that work from that property.

0:58.8

I also bought a new vehicle, well, a new to me vehicle of 2023, and I owe $28,000 on that.

1:08.8

Okay.

1:09.7

And what's your household income?

1:11.2

And then, so my household income has changed.

1:14.9

In the last six months, I lost my dad, I lost my job, and I separated with my husband.

1:22.5

Oh, my gosh.

1:24.9

I'm sorry.

1:26.1

So my income is around 75,000

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