My Family Won't Stop Asking For Money
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm in a great situation. I've paid off all my debt, and I'm investing. However, I want to know how you define the line of being generous without becoming the family bailout. |
| 0:18.2 | Oh, good question. What's the situation? Why would you be the family bailout? |
| 0:22.4 | Like, what's the family? What's the family need bailing out of? A lot of things, actually. |
| 0:28.4 | So I have a sister who's on the brink of bankruptcy, and she's got two kids. I've been helping her with car situations. |
| 0:36.7 | So I bought her a car, actually |
| 0:39.8 | ironically, in April, and it just took a itch that. The engine just went on that. So I'm giving |
| 0:46.8 | her my car and buying myself a new car. And then my parents're not plan for their retirement. |
| 0:54.2 | They're living on Social Security and droning because they've also taken on more debt that they can actually pay. |
| 1:01.3 | So my dad does DoorDash, but they are drowning and they can't really pay their bills. |
| 1:08.5 | So they come to me quite often to help out. |
| 1:12.8 | Gosh. Okay. So your situation, you obviously have done well. What's your net worth? |
| 1:20.0 | Right now, well, I guess I'm married now. So our net worth is just about $3 million. Okay. And you guys are debt, I mean, debt |
| 1:30.7 | free everything. Yeah, you guys are doing great. Completely debt free. Yeah. Go ahead. |
| 1:36.4 | I went through my own journey of realizing how much I was paying to interest. I had credit cards and auto loans and student debt, |
| 1:46.7 | and I took on second jobs to get myself to a position between 25 and 32 of being |
| 1:52.4 | debt-free and then starting to invest. |
| 1:56.2 | And then my husband, he had a really great example. |
| 1:59.0 | So he bought a home when he was 25 and was able to pay |
| 2:02.0 | that off quickly oh well yeah you guys were just wise yeah we were really fortunate situation but |
| 2:07.0 | my fortune but you worked for it you made smart decisions too so give yourself that credit yeah yeah |
| 2:11.7 | thank you yeah so i i like to think of generosity as a as a it's it's like an approach, right? It's like a, it's like a spirit of. And so everybody has to decide what that means for themselves. Some people's generosity, they look at it like an ROI. I want to, I want to give to something. I want to give to things that I want to see multiply. Some people |
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