Think Twice About These Rules of Thumb
Big Picture Retirement®
Devin Carroll
4.7 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
There are a few rules of thumb that should never be ignored, but you should always question if they are right for you and your unique situation.
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| 0:00.0 | The Big Picture Retirement Show does not provide tax, legal, or financial advice. |
| 0:04.3 | Listeners are encouraged to seek out their own advisors in these areas. |
| 0:11.3 | Hey, everyone, welcome to the Big Picture Retirement Show. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm your host, Evan Carroll, joined by my co-host, John Ross. |
| 0:18.7 | Hey, John. |
| 0:19.4 | Howdy. |
| 0:20.5 | And howdy to all of our subscribers out there and those of you |
| 0:24.8 | who are about to be subscribers. Yes, because you're so fascinated with our content. They're |
| 0:31.9 | going to be like closing the app, getting it back open just to hit that subscribe button. |
| 0:35.9 | Oh, it's going to be good stuff. All right. So the other day, I did something. I said I would never do. I said I would never do this. And I did. Now, you've accused me occasionally of being cheap, which I don't know that I deserve that or not, but frugal sometimes, but not. You are. I mean, I'm not reusing Ziploc bags. |
| 0:55.6 | You know, it's not to that extent yet. |
| 0:58.7 | No, but you did get rid of the cure egg in your office |
| 1:02.0 | because your secretary was drinking too many of the K-cups. |
| 1:05.4 | I mean, come on. |
| 1:05.9 | Years ago. |
| 1:11.3 | I'll have you know. |
| 1:12.3 | You call me, you're like, she drinks two cups of a, two, two curing cups an hour. |
| 1:18.6 | That's like an extra 50 cents per hour on her salary. |
| 1:23.6 | I have a curing in my office now. |
| 1:26.3 | And I'll have you know that the other day I made the decision that we're going to start buying the Mac Cafe K-cups and not the member's mark. |
| 1:33.7 | I don't know how you could construe that as being cheap. |
| 1:36.4 | That's not. |
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