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My wife and I keep fighting about money. She's hardcore on the Dave Ramsey plan. I support it. I believe it. I'm doing all the things that I feel like I should be, but I want to spend money on stuff that she doesn't agree with. And it's causing fights, and I don't want to get a divorce over it. But I also want her to kind of lighten up a little bit and have a little bit of fun with some money. Where should I go with this? Because I know I'm wrong for spending the money, but I don't want to just not spend any money. Give us some examples. How much are you spending per month and on what?

And she feels like that's out of control.

Well, we both spend money, but hers is more, like, regulated.

Mine is on, I'm restoring an old car.

Okay.

And I keep spending, you know, it's like, it's almost done.

I'm probably about $10,000 away from having it completely, like, finished.

Do you guys have an allotted money that you get each month, each of you?

No, we both work.

I know.

Well, we're saying in the budget, is it like Jeremy's fun money, her fun money, and it's $100 each? You know, like, what's the plan there? Or is it just Jeremy spends what he wants based on the parts he needs? That's basically what's been happening. Okay. I understand her frustration now. It's just like you're spending, Congress while you're trying to get out of debt.

And she's going, this is going very much against the plan we agreed on.

So when you're saying you support her, it sounds like you're like, I'm a fan of her doing it, but I'm not doing it.

Yeah, I think there's a middle ground that you can get to. I think there's a middle ground you can get to. What's the urgency for this car restoration?

It's been 17 years in the works, and it's almost done, so I'm trying to finish it.

So what's 18 instead of 17?

Right. I get it.

What has stopped you, I guess, in the past of finishing this?

Just not working, you know, like I worked in the movie industry for a long time and there's highs and lows and when the highs are up, you make a lot of money and it's great.

And when the lows are there, you'll live enough savings for months.

And it kind of forced me to choose to pay my bills or restore this car. And I shows

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