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The Ramsey Show Highlights

We Make $700,000 and My Husband Says We Can't Afford A New Car

The Ramsey Show Highlights

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Self-improvement, Education, Investing, Business

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🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:10.0

Today's question comes from Kayla in Montana. I want a new car. My husband lives and breathes by Dave's rules, and he thinks we can't afford one. We're both 35 years old and together bring home

0:22.0

$700,000. Our only debt we have is our $600,000 mortgage on our home and a $65,000 rental home.

0:30.9

Our net worth is close to $1 million. We have two young daughters and plan to add to our family

0:36.7

soon.

0:41.5

So I want to save up and buy a new mid-sized SUV this year.

0:48.7

My husband wants to purchase a used full-sized SUV and keep it for a minimum of seven years.

0:51.0

Which one of us is correct?

0:57.9

I don't understand the, my husband wants to purchase a use it and keep it for a minimum seven years.

0:59.8

Do you get it?

1:00.5

She wants to buy a brand new car.

1:02.6

Oh, buy new.

1:04.2

I hear, I hear.

1:05.2

And he wants to buy a used one and keep it.

1:07.7

Okay, I, okay, I see, I see.

1:09.4

Yeah.

1:10.0

So, um, the problem here, Kayla, is not the car,

1:14.8

and the problem here is not your husband following the Ramsey rules because your husband's not

1:21.4

following them. The Ramsey rules include working with your spouse and being on the same page with your spouse,

1:31.1

and you, Kayla, have nothing to do with anything here.

1:35.4

You just stand back and ask for stuff, and he decides if he's going to give it or not.

1:41.5

That is not a Ramsey rule. Instead, you should be like a grown-up person,

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