Hello, whenever's my name is Jesse Meekam with another episode of the YNAB podcast, where

we teach you four rules to help you stop even paycheck to paycheck.

Get out of debt and save more money.

Maybe even develop a new relationship with money or maybe realize, look a little deeper

and see if there aren't things where money can't buy it, that kind of a thing.

The other day, I was thinking about making a little something and someone told me, you

know, in the shop building something amateurish out of wood and someone said, hey, you know,

you could buy that for a lot cheaper and you would save tons of time.

And I didn't know what to say.

I was so shocked that this person thought that I thought if I handmade something in my shop

where I've invested way more than it makes sense to, given my skill level, that I would

somehow be saving money.

I was speechless and as you all know, it's hard to give me to that spot, speechless.

But sometimes we and this person in a moment and I in my moment always, everyone has these

moments, you're just kind of looking at something through the lens of just the dollars.

And when we're doing rule one, when you're thinking through your priorities, you're asking

yourself regularly, what does this money, money, money, money need to do before I'm paid

again, paid again by more money, money, money.

So we're thinking money, always, money, money.

We're always using, you know, like money and then time as the denominator or maybe time

and then money as the denominator, but it's always those two resources, those two finite

resources that we exchange with on a regular basis.

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