“I Think You Need a Hobby”
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🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If your private student loans are in default, you're not out of options. Go to whyrefi.com |
| 0:08.1 | slash Ramsey. Today's question comes from Mark in England. We are retired, mortgage-free, and |
| 0:14.2 | financially stable with no debt except our credit cards. We buy what we need on a credit card that gives |
| 0:19.3 | us points, which we use to pay for clothes, food, etc. We then take that credit card debt and put it onto a long-term interest-free |
| 0:25.9 | credit card for a period of 12 to 34 months, only paying the minimum balance each month. At the same |
| 0:31.8 | time as the start of the 0% deal, we put an equal amount into a savings account that pays a 7% |
| 0:36.9 | interest. At the end of the |
| 0:38.6 | 0% term, we pay it off from the savings and then keep the interest earned to pay for travel |
| 0:43.5 | or a large cash purchase. We've been doing this for 10 years with no interest incurred. Cash back to |
| 0:49.2 | us has been 6 grand plus 8 grand earned an interest from the savings. Why shouldn't we keep doing this? |
| 0:55.4 | Because it's exhausting, number one. |
| 0:57.8 | That's how you lost the Revolutionary War right here. |
| 1:01.3 | Zinger. |
| 1:02.4 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:03.1 | Take that, Red Coats. |
| 1:05.2 | Unbelievable. |
| 1:06.5 | The mental calories needed has got to be worth something. |
| 1:09.6 | Your time is worth something. |
| 1:11.1 | And here's what's ridiculous. |
| 1:12.2 | We do not know the dollar amounts. |
| 1:15.3 | But what it took to get here? |
| 1:17.3 | I mean, what could you? |
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