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The Ramsey Show Highlights

My Wife Spends About $5,000 a Month On A Credit Card

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🗓️ 6 July 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:06.7

My name's Taylor. Mary, I have three children, have a five-year-old, three, and a one-year-old.

0:13.0

My wife and I would like to get some help and some advice from y'all in regards to our budgeting.

0:20.2

I wouldn't so much say that we have a money problem,

0:22.8

but I would say that we have a problem agreeing on what to do with our money. And I think Dave said

0:31.0

it before. I think one of us could be considered more of a spender, whereas the other could be

0:35.5

considered more of a saver.

0:44.3

Let me guess. You're at the saver. That's my guess as well. Right. Trying to find a happy medium that we can both be happy, enjoy life while also saving. And more importantly,

0:51.5

I just possibly don't want to work forever. Sure.

0:54.5

Now, what is the – let's get right – well, let's get right to the problem.

0:57.7

Where are we not on the same page?

1:00.8

It'd be with regard to spending, specifically credit card spending per month.

1:04.5

How much?

1:07.6

So individually, I spend probably on average around 2,500, $3,000 a month on my credit card,

1:15.9

and she's been closer to $5,000 plus per month.

1:20.0

Well, wait a minute.

1:20.6

Hold the phone.

1:21.5

What's the, how much do you actually bring in in actual money every month?

1:26.1

Because that, that, for sure sure are you all running all of your

1:30.7

expenses on a credit card is that what you're doing not everything uh for instance we so we pay

1:38.6

our credit card off each month um our house notes taken out of our checking account and our checking, excuse me, our house

1:46.2

note is really our only reoccurring debt. What's your take on? And that's kind of the hard

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