Four signs that you're on the dark side of money and saving too much.

Brian, I am so excited to talk about this because we love talking about saving and we love talking about building wealth.

And we love people that have aggressive savings rates.

But I do think this is one of those times, one of those scenarios where perhaps potentially

you can have too much of a good thing.

Well, let's set a baseline for everybody.

Our, you know, a lot of our content is based on the financial order of operations.

And we tell people the goal of what we want you to be saving is 20 to 25% of your

gross income. However, we know a lot of you are out there. And look, I want you to be a financial

mutant. That's the healthy side of things. But there's a lot of you that are on that dark side,

that financial miser.

Let's hear it again. Do it again.

I don't know if I nailed the respirator perfectly.

For all those out there in podcast world, you just nailed that.

Now, look, don't hear us wrong.

Saving is not inherently bad.

It's not a negative thing. And we espouse saving over 25 or saving

25% of your gross income. But when you do it and when there are things in your life that begin to

fall apart and when it takes hold of you, that's where you are no longer a financial mutant, you might be becoming,

might be becoming a financial miser. And that's what we don't want. Well, look, I mean,

we see this, there's all kind of shades of what happens in personal finance. How often do we see

people who start paying off debt? They pay off the high interest credit card debt. And then they

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