We Need To Tell Our 21-Year-Old To Start Contributing
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🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If your private student loans are in default, you're not out of options. |
| 0:06.6 | Go to yrefi.com slash Ramsey. |
| 0:08.8 | I have a daughter that just turned 21, and she has a horse, and we, her parents, pay the $400 a month in boarding. |
| 0:20.7 | Tell me more. Uh-oh, George, and horses are not... pay the $400 a month in boarding. |
| 0:22.3 | Her gas from her car. |
| 0:25.5 | Oh, George, George and horses are not a good. |
| 0:25.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.6 | Yeah, okay, keep going, Ashley. |
| 0:28.7 | I'm just preparing your heart. This is her life. |
| 0:30.3 | She's been riding horses since she's been six years old. |
| 0:34.9 | And we pay for her insurance, her gas for her car, everything. |
| 0:40.5 | And we're kind of wondering not to be so mean and tell her, hey, you need to kind of start contributing. |
| 0:48.4 | Now, the backstory about this is we don't want to be too hard on her because a couple years ago she went through depression |
| 0:54.4 | pardon me i'm going to start crying um start cutting self-cutting self-harming oh my goodness was very very |
| 1:01.9 | depressed um yeah so you want to be sensitive that makes sense literally literally yeah literally had a |
| 1:07.4 | plant for suicide oh so this horse i'm so sorry did she she get some help? Yeah, she's in therapy now. She has a pet in probably two years. It was one of those when she was like 15 through 16, just trying to find out who she was and confused. And so we kind of almost walk on eggshells. Yeah, as I say you have PTSD around it. it. I mean, you know, as a parent, you're just like, I don't want to do anything. We don't want. Right. Exactly. Yeah. So we don't, we can afford paying for her horse every month. But I just telling you my husband, she just got a second job. She's going to be making a lot. |
| 1:44.6 | Did she go to the school? |
| 1:45.7 | What happened after high school for her? |
| 1:49.3 | She does not go to college. |
| 1:51.4 | She basically helps give lessons at the barn with the main trainer. |
| 1:56.9 | How much does she make? |
| 1:58.1 | We never, she doesn't make a lot. |
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