4.6 • 682 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. |
0:04.3 | Start budgeting for free today. |
0:06.6 | So basically my issue is I am trying to figure out how we can budget our finances |
0:15.3 | because my husband is a blue-collar worker on a commission-based pay scale. |
0:21.7 | And we don't have consistent income per year. |
0:28.0 | But last year, he made $161,000. |
0:30.7 | The year before that, he made $140,000. |
0:33.2 | And the year before that, he made $180,000. |
0:35.7 | So I would say an average of $160,000 over the last three years. |
0:41.0 | Right. |
0:42.0 | And we're looking into doing the baby steps and snowballing all of this fun stuff. |
0:47.4 | But right now, currently with our mortgage at $4,120, we also have a consolidation loan. Health insurance is $900 a month because through |
0:59.2 | his work it's $1,300. And the credit card debt totals $127,000. Goodness gracious. What'd you guys |
1:09.2 | spend on these cards? Well, it's been a combination of, like, I don't hurt me, but I put my husband's motorcycle |
1:20.0 | on my card because we were trying to get the points. |
1:22.9 | I know that's the worst answer you could possibly want to hear but um so that's 18,000 um and we have |
1:32.3 | just multiple bills. Um, he has $72,000 in credit card debt and I have, um, not including |
1:41.4 | that motorcycle with like $34,000. Um, it's like $34,000. |
1:46.3 | I put groceries on it. |
1:48.6 | I've put property taxes on it because our personal property tax. |
1:51.8 | So where is your actual income going if you're using the card to fund your life? |
1:55.9 | You guys make great money. |
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