Hello, whinabers. My name is Jesse Meekham. This is podcast number 459 for

whinab, where we teach you four rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck,

get out of debt and save more money.

Merry Christmas everyone.

I hope you have a very safe, very enjoyable, very merry Christmas this week.

As I've been thinking about Christmas, of course, Julie and I tried as

best we could to be ready well before the festivities actually pick up pace. We were

we were all right. We did okay. We did better than years in the past. And we were hoping

that that would give us a little bit of time to reflect on, I don't know, just actually

slow the pace a little bit and not have things be quite so frantic.

We have a lot of little kids and bigger kids now to make Christmas Mary Four and while that is a whole lot of fun,

it adds some stress that we were trying to avoid this year.

As I was thinking about money and Christmas and how I could tad that into budgeting today

for probably the fourth, fourth fifth I don't know

sixth Christmas that we've had this podcast I couldn't help but think about how

little I remember of what I received as a kid.

And I was almost wanted to just say

that a lot of the things that we need to remember

what we remember about Christmas.

And it is not about all of the stuff and it is so much more about the feelings and

the togetherness and the family time and so at this time of year where you might be frantically trying to wrap up some last minute

wrapping, I hope that you can remember what you remember as an adult now looking back and did you remember specific things and

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