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The Ramsey Show Highlights

The Problem Is Not the Basement!

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Self-improvement, Education, Investing, Business

4.6682 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

brought to you by the every dollar app start budgeting for free today so we've got a second child

0:09.7

on the way doing november wife wants me to remodel the basement so we have more space um just for

0:18.5

pleria a full bathroom that we can get done.

0:22.3

She wants me to use the HELOC that I took out before I listened to both George's book

0:27.5

and Dave Your Book.

0:29.6

And I want the cash flow out, whether it takes me a couple more months just to do it or not.

0:35.1

I'm just trying to make sure that's on the same path,

0:37.7

but I'm thinking I have to pause kind of the debt snowball at the same time.

0:45.5

Are you trying to get me and Dave to tell your pregnant wife something you don't want to tell her?

0:52.2

No.

0:53.2

I have told her already that we need it's okay to do this but at the same time i need

1:00.0

i need time because i can do a lot of it myself but i only want to do it with cash yeah your your

1:07.8

your impulse is right man yeah um here the the The problem is that you guys are not aligned.

1:14.3

It's not whether to do a basement or not.

1:17.4

The problem is she's willing to borrow whatever amount of money to get whatever she wants,

1:22.9

and you're not.

1:24.4

And so because you're dealing with a set of information that she doesn't have after going

1:28.8

through Georgia's book and consuming some of our material, you have become accurately, I think,

1:34.9

convinced that the best way for your family to prosper is to get out of debt and stay out of

1:39.2

debt. She's not convinced of that. Yeah, it took me a while for her just to even listen to your book, Dave.

1:48.2

I had to kind of not force her, but I did that through the car on trips or whatever,

1:53.0

and she kind of was under the impression like, okay, we need to get on this, but I kind of talked

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