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The Ramsey Show Highlights

I Want You To Have a Little Bit of Anxiety

The Ramsey Show Highlights

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Self-improvement, Education, Investing, Business

4.6682 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:06.0

Dakota is in Dallas hi Dakota welcome to the ramsie show hi dave thanks for taking my call

0:12.5

how are you better than we deserve what's up in your world hey so I am 27 years old I am

0:20.6

making around $76,000 a year between my full-time job and a part-time job that I picked up.

0:26.1

Cool.

0:26.5

I am fortunate to not have any credit card debt, which is great, and I'm very thankful for that,

0:31.6

but I am sitting around $45,000 in debt between my student loans and a car loan.

0:39.4

My student loans are around $31,000 across five loans with my highest interest rate at 6.6%.

0:45.6

And then my car have about $14,000 left at a 3.79% interest rate.

0:50.9

So I'm sitting around $6,600 in my savings account, and I followed along with

0:57.9

the show and hearing, you know, the goal of having $1,000 in savings is great. However, having

1:04.1

that little amount also gives me a lot of anxiety, thinking of, you know, random things I could

1:09.4

come up here and there, car breaks down, you know, extra expenses, things like that.

1:13.8

So I guess my question is with my lowest student loan being around $3,000, technically I do have a savings account to just start, you know, knocking that out right away while still having a little over $3,000 left in the account.

1:26.2

So I guess the question is, should I plan to start drawing from that savings account

1:30.4

to start knocking those student loans out in the car out, paying extra there,

1:35.0

or should I leave that savings account alone, look at refinancing?

1:38.9

I'm not sure.

1:40.0

How deeply are you willing to cut your lifestyle and how many hours are you willing to work to where you could do this in one year?

1:48.7

Yeah, so.

1:50.4

46, what do you say?

1:51.9

41,000, right?

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