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The Ramsey Show Highlights

My Spending Habits Are Getting in the Way of Building Wealth

The Ramsey Show Highlights

Ramsey Network

Self-improvement, Education, Investing, Business

4.6682 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:06.6

My dream is to achieve financial freedom and continue to build wealth, but I feel like my

0:10.9

spending habits are getting in the way of that. A little bit of background. I'm 25. I'm making

0:16.2

over $150,000 a year. Wow, good for you. Yeah, I have no debt.

0:21.7

I'm putting myself through school, but I find myself spending unnecessarily on things I don't need.

0:27.9

And I'm just wondering if I can get some advice on how to rein in my spending and, you know,

0:32.8

start building wealth and achieve my financial freedom goal that I'm shooting for.

0:36.5

What do you do and what are you studying?

0:40.3

I am studying engineering and I am in pretty much an entry-level engineering position.

0:47.4

And I love what I do.

0:48.7

I'm able to work from home and I have a lot of great know, I feel like there's more that can be done.

0:55.6

Okay.

0:56.2

So what are you wanting? Yeah, when you say there's more, because I mean, you're putting

1:00.2

yourself through school, debt-free, correct? You have no other debt. So is it investing you're

1:05.6

looking at? Is it just your spending habits? Since you feel like you're making a lot, but there's not a lot to show at the end of the month? What's your biggest paypoint? Yeah, I feel like I don't have boundaries when it

1:18.4

comes to spending. I feel like I could be using my money for better things, like investing for

1:23.6

the long term, but I find myself spending a lot of time online shopping or going out,

1:28.0

and I don't have a lot at the end of each month to put in my investment accounts like I'd like to.

1:33.1

Okay. Are you on a specific budget, like a pretty detailed budget?

1:38.6

Um, no, really. I just kind of spend as you want. I mean honestly for you Sarah that's that in an

1:46.0

investing goal are the two things that well I think completely change your life I mean if you have it

1:51.0

if you have a budget because you're doing well financially right you're not going deep into debt

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