Rule Two Broken Down
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Jesse goes back to basics and breaks down YNAB's Rule Two: Embrace Your True Expenses
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Winebbers. My name is Jesse Meekham and this is podcast |
| 0:07.2 | number 390 for Wineb, where we teach you four rules to help you stop living |
| 0:10.6 | paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt, and save more money. |
| 0:13.7 | Last week we discussed Rule 1, word for word, give every dollar a, we didn't discuss a job. Give Every Dollar Job. |
| 0:24.0 | If we were to do it, kind of caveman style, give every dollar job. |
| 0:28.0 | And that is budgeting. |
| 0:32.0 | Rule 2, embrace your true expenses, is just a subset of Rule 1 if you think |
| 0:37.0 | about it. You're giving every dollar a job with Rule 1, and some of those jobs will be to take |
| 0:41.8 | larger, less frequent expenses and break them down |
| 0:44.8 | into monthly, manageable, bite size, normal, boring, doable amounts. |
| 0:52.3 | That's rule two. You embrace your true expenses. You |
| 0:57.1 | embrace them. You recognize. You know if you ignore someone you turn your |
| 1:02.0 | back on them, you look away away you're definitely not embracing you're ignoring you're shunning |
| 1:06.7 | you're shunning something so when that life insurance premium comes due or Christmas comes due you like how I said it like that, that's the |
| 1:13.5 | appropriate way to talk about Christmas, or that vacation comes due, whatever it is. |
| 1:18.3 | Most of the time we've turned our back on these things, kind of hidden our head, or put our head in the |
| 1:24.2 | sand or clouds, one of the two, but not in reality. |
| 1:28.0 | And then it sneaks up on us and we are basically shunning these expenses. I don't have anything to do with you. |
| 1:34.4 | No thank you. But if you embrace your true expenses, |
| 1:38.8 | recognizing that the roof will wear out, the heater fuse will blow. That happened to me a couple weeks ago. Now I know how |
| 1:46.0 | to change a fuse next time so I'll be able to save $162. But you embrace. You recognize the reality of the situation things wear out and they must be replaced if you would like to still have them like a roof or a car or tires for that car or a |
| 2:04.9 | transmission for that car, or rubber flooring for your van so that you could power wash the floor |
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