Rule Four Reviewed
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Beef is pretty good aged, but you know what's even better? Aging your money! That's Rule Four -- aging your money. Basically, increase the amount of time between when you earn the money and when you spend it. By following Rule One through Three, you can accumulate cash in your categories and pre-fund future expenses, thereby increasing your options.
When you have a lot of cash available, you have options for handling unexpected expenses, taking advantages of opportunities (which require money/investment), or simply changing your strategy. It's easy to re-assign dollars that are already in categories, but you have to have the dollars there in the first place. That's the essence of aging your money.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, why never is my name is Jesse. |
| 0:06.6 | You come with another episode of the YNAB podcast where we teach you four rules to help |
| 0:10.0 | you stop having paycheck to get out of debt and save more money. |
| 0:13.9 | Instead of living paycheck to paycheck, you're going to live, I don't know, further away. |
| 0:19.6 | I'm not sure how to exactly say it. |
| 0:21.1 | Your paycheck's are just going to get old. |
| 0:22.6 | That's what we call it, aging your money. |
| 0:24.3 | That's the fourth rule that we are reviewing today. |
| 0:27.0 | The recap, give every dollar a job, is rule one, it means your money is lining up with |
| 0:31.2 | your priorities. |
| 0:32.7 | Rule two is called embracing your true expenses, recognizing that a lot of your expenses |
| 0:36.4 | are larger, less frequent expenses. |
| 0:39.3 | And you need to consider those as you're operating under rule one, as you're prioritizing. |
| 0:43.7 | You need to think longer term, but act now on that thinking. |
| 0:48.4 | So you get to weigh the balance between long term and short term spending. |
| 0:53.8 | You find out where your priorities, well, what they really are. |
| 0:57.3 | Rule three, be flexible. |
| 0:59.4 | Find the money first, if something happens, if life happens, and you need to roll and change |
| 1:04.3 | your budget a little bit, do it. |
| 1:05.8 | But make sure you find the money before actually spending. |
| 1:10.0 | That is the best practice. |
| 1:11.1 | That's the only practice worth doing. |
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