Should I Spend Money I Don’t Have For A Family Gathering?

The Ramsey Show Highlights

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🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Today's episode features Dave Ramsey & Rachel Cruze. The Ramsey Show Highlights is a quick, daily dose of advice on life and money in under ten minutes. Hear from experts like Dave Ramsey, Ken Coleman, Rachel Cruze, Dr. John Delony, George Kamel & Jade Warshaw. Part of Ramsey Network. Delivered to you seven days a week. Learn more about your ad choices. https://www.megaphone.fm/adchoices Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tyler's in Tampa, Florida.
0:06.5	Hi, Tyler.
0:07.0	Welcome to the Ramsey Show.
0:09.6	Hi, Dave.
0:10.4	Thank you for taking my call.
0:11.5	It's an honor to speak with you.
0:12.6	You too.
0:13.3	What's up?
0:15.3	So I have a question.
0:17.2	My wife and I have been paying off debt for about the last year and a half now.
0:21.6	We've been able to pay off about 60,000 out of 100.
0:26.6	And I actually didn't know about the baby steps until about six months ago.
0:31.6	So in the beginning we were kind of Davish, I guess you could say, and now we're trying to get a little more
0:38.8	Gazelle intense with it. We've been doing pretty well with following a budget, and I just
0:47.9	am struggling with certain expenses related to, like, family events. I don't get together with my family very often.
0:55.2	We have a wedding coming up that we're going to. And then I just found out from my sister
1:00.5	that for her 40th birthday, she wants us to fly out to California and spend a weekend with her
1:07.0	at a resort. And it's going to, it's going to cost us a little over $1,000 for me to go do that.
1:13.8	I'm having a hard time deciding whether or not that's a good way to go. We have, I have just
1:21.0	my student loans left to pay off, about $40,000. I was really hoping to knock that out.
1:26.0	We've been able to increase our income.
1:31.3	So I've been hoping to be able to do that in the next few months.
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