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🗓️ 1 August 2022
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There's a moment that happens when you run across something you really want -- it's like an itch that wants you to whip out the credit card and scratch it! In these moments, we're probably not very clear on our priorities and Rule One, so Jesse reminds us that the budget is the thing that helps us answer the question: can I afford this? Am I going to be OK after I buy this? And the budget answers those questions for you by bringing clarity to your priorities and the jobs you have assigned to your dollars.
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0:00.0 | Hello, Weinabbers. My name is Jesse and we come with another episode of the Weinab Podcast |
0:09.4 | where we teach you four rules to help you stop even paycheck to paycheck, get out of |
0:12.6 | debt and save more money. Here's a tip. Here's how you can save money. You don't buy |
0:17.9 | something, but how do you not, how do you not buy it? I have a note, I maybe you've talked |
0:23.3 | about this before. I have a note in Apple notes and it's titled Things I Want and I would |
0:32.5 | catch something like a really nice backpacking backpack. I'm like, oh man, that looks like |
0:38.1 | something I want or a pH meter for soil. You're like, well, naturally, you would want that |
0:45.4 | or an aged tool belt. So you don't look silly, you know, like an old one, old school, |
0:51.3 | like real leather, that kind of a thing. Yeah, you would want that. So I would just kind |
0:55.8 | of accumulate these things and it was a to-do list of sorts. It wasn't really for the like, |
1:04.2 | oh, I can't buy it, but it was just like, oh, well, let me just wait on that for a moment. |
1:09.2 | But I do acknowledge that I want it, right? Anyway, the other day I was processing my notes. |
1:13.9 | I'm in the process of moving to a different note-taking system and I ran across the things |
1:19.7 | I want, note. And I was looking through that and I realized, one, I hadn't added something |
1:24.6 | for a while. So what's going on there, don't know. But two is I had checked off some things, |
1:31.0 | for sure. But I mean, some of them have been on there for a couple of years. I actually |
1:38.6 | saw phases in my life come and go on that list. And a few of the things I grabbed, like |
1:45.8 | an undercoat for the hammock when camping, of course, you get that. But other stuff, not |
1:51.3 | so much. And so I kind of, I'm of the opinion that if you wait long enough, the magic kind |
1:59.3 | of wears off. And I know some of you out there have done this where if you want something, |
2:04.2 | you write it down. And if you want it two days later, then maybe you grab it or whatever. |
2:09.7 | And I think that's that's worth doing. This one, it almost felt like, how do you even |
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