Why the Pain of Financial Infidelity is Deep

Speaker 1 What up, what up? This is the Ramsey Show. I'm John Deloney, joined by the great George Camel.

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Let's go out to Milwaukee. No, no, no, no.
Let's go out to Dallas, Detone, and talk to Cyrus.

Speaker 1 Hey, Cyrus, what's up, man?

Speaker 2 Hello. How are you doing?

Speaker 1 Doing outstanding, my man. What's up?

Speaker 2 So, yes,

Speaker 2 I am 26.

Speaker 2 I have $160,000 worth of debt. And I am wondering if I should file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

Speaker 3 Why'd you jump to that conclusion? What makes you think you can't crawl out of this?

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 2 I've been working a lot, two jobs,

Speaker 2 constantly. Not really able to get anywhere.

Speaker 2 Recently, about a year ago, I caught a case

Speaker 2 for a felony charge, and

Speaker 2 I am still going on actively with that case, trying to get probation.

Speaker 2 So it's been very difficult for me to find another job now that my background check is showing a felony charge.

Speaker 1 So what are you doing now for work?

Speaker 2 Yeah, so I'm working at Amazon.

Speaker 2 I'm making

Speaker 2 about $4,100 a month at a minimum.

Speaker 2 I can potentially make more depending on if they allow me to get overtime or work a six-day. I'm working five days there as right now.

Speaker 2 Last year I made $60,000 off of it off of Amazon loan.

Speaker 2 But I'm just

Speaker 2 like drowning right now with payments. And

Speaker 2 I did

Speaker 2 rounded up all my minimum payments for all my loans and everything. And

Speaker 2 my minimum is $5,300

Speaker 1 a month.

Speaker 2 And that's just on minimum payments. That's not including food or

Speaker 2 rent or anything else.

Speaker 1 How have you made it so far?

Speaker 3 What's getting you through every month if you're going underwater?

Speaker 2 So,

Speaker 2 how did I make it so far? Well, I've been doing.

Speaker 1 are you going further into debt every month?

Speaker 2 No, no. So I'm tapped out.
I can't even get the debt consolidation loan. My credit is shot.

Speaker 1 What kind of debt is it? What is this debt, man?

Speaker 3 Can you break down the 160?

Speaker 2 Yeah, so I have

Speaker 2 a vehicle that's $51,000 left on it.

Speaker 1 $51,000?

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's a Tesla Model Y performance.

Speaker 3 Oh, not a Tesla.

Speaker 1 What's it worth?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Not $51.5,000. How much? $35,000.

Speaker 2 $35,000?

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 What else?

Speaker 2 I have nine credit cards that are total worth $55,000 worth of debt on that.

Speaker 2 Okay. And then

Speaker 2 I have the rest of my loans, which is

Speaker 2 $98,000, which is three

Speaker 2 personal loans and then my auto loan.

Speaker 1 Your other what?

Speaker 1 My auto loan? Auto loan.

Speaker 3 You have another auto loan?

Speaker 2 No, no, no. It's contested.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 So you got 51K on the car, nine credit cards that are 55K, and then the other, what is that? Another 50 or 60 is in personal loans?

Speaker 2 No. So total with the car, it's 98.
So it would be another like 40 in personal.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 Where did all this money go? What have you been spending on?

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 1 we're talking 100K and just spending.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 To make a long story short,

Speaker 2 as I mentioned, I had a three-year-old daughter. I got in, I was in a relationship with this woman.

Speaker 2 Basically, she was unfaithful with me. We broke up.

Speaker 2 Ever since then, I've been trying to honestly repair our relationship for our child and also because, you know, there's a woman that i love and care about

Speaker 2 well long story short it's been years of non-stop um taking on her debts um

Speaker 2 you know paying you know for food and basically basically living like a two households the whole time um

Speaker 2 and

Speaker 1 yeah basically just So she's been scamming you for this. I mean, she's been just leeching off you all this time, huh?

Speaker 2 Yes, yes. And now, you know, recently I got, you know, we, you know, I moved, we basically broke up again,

Speaker 2 and I'm left with all this. And I just,

Speaker 2 she doesn't want to make it work. And I've been continuing trying to make it work for my child.
And

Speaker 2 I just, this is where I'm at.

Speaker 1 Now I'm going to go. Well, hold on, hold on.

Speaker 1 Making it work for your child

Speaker 1 is different than

Speaker 1 digging a $150,000, $160,000 hole trying to impress a girl.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Those are two different things.
And you have lied to yourself for the last two or three years, saying, I'm quote unquote doing this for the baby.

Speaker 1 But you've been running around like a, like, with your peacock feathers out,

Speaker 1 trying to, trying to woo this woman. And, man, she's been just happy to take your money, happy to take all your stuff.
But it was, it wasn't about that girl.

Speaker 1 And now, again, I think you love your daughter. I think you're, I think you're working as hard as you can.
But man, you've got to let the fantasy of this woman go. It's, it's burying you.

Speaker 1 What's this felony charge about?

Speaker 2 So it it was, um,

Speaker 2 she had a guy in my apartment for the second time. Um,

Speaker 1 all right, let's do it. Let's do this.
Let's stop there. I don't want, I don't want you to say something that's going to get subpainted on the air.
Let's just roll back to the money part.

Speaker 1 Is that cool?

Speaker 1 Are you living alone right now?

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 I

Speaker 2 was going back between my parents and her.

Speaker 2 I was in my car for a month.

Speaker 2 Last month, I was in for a whole month just because I couldn't go back to either one.

Speaker 2 So now I am back with my parents they you know they stopped drinking supposedly so um i'm there for for now and and this is another reason why i was thinking about bankruptcy just because i have a case going on i'm an unstable household you know i can't rely on nobody right now i'm a worker i i like you know two years ago i made you know 93 000 working doubles i when I mean i've been working non-stop two jobs for the last three years but bro if you if you if you make 98 three years in a row, you're out.

Speaker 2 No, no, not three years in a year.

Speaker 1 No, no, no, no. I'm telling you.

Speaker 1 Like,

Speaker 1 I want you to hear George and I say we believe in you. If you make 90 grand for three years in a row, just straight hustling,

Speaker 1 you'll be out. You'll be free.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Listen to me. You'll be free.
If you file bankruptcy,

Speaker 1 you're putting a chain around your neck and you're jumping into a lake.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 The problem I have is I've been applying for jobs in my record with the felony charge.

Speaker 1 I got it. I got it.
It's very,

Speaker 1 the deck is firmly stacked against you until you get that clear. 100%.

Speaker 1 Yeah. But I have never one time

Speaker 1 I've, I mean, I've never,

Speaker 1 the guy who mows my lawn, I don't know if he's got a felony charge. He just does a great job, right? I mean, there's work to be had.

Speaker 1 It's not traditional work and it's not fun work and it is hard, grinding, hot, cold work, but there's work. What do you think, George?

Speaker 3 Yeah, there's no shortcuts here.

Speaker 3 We've got to to get your income up asap i would not file bankruptcy you're you can get out of this but it's going to take three years of hustle throwing 50 grand at the debt and that means getting that income up and man you're going to have to get creative you might have to get a roommate or two keep living with the parents do what you got to do but do not throw that chain around you just yet

Speaker 1 All right, we are back. I'm John Deloney joined by George Camill, 888-825-5225, taking your calls on money and work work and life, your mental and emotional health, whatever you got going on.

Speaker 1 I've got this

Speaker 1 QZ.com. It looks like an internet-y article, but here's what it says.
It says, talking about money makes people more uncomfortable than talking about politics and religion, says the survey here.

Speaker 1 That's actually been, George, that's been one of my personal experiences sitting with hurting people, man.

Speaker 1 I remember back to, I've talked about this on the show. I remember back to my practicum days when I was seeing clients.
Man, people would talk about every, everything,

Speaker 1 their

Speaker 1 past, their future, like, like really hard stuff, partners they've had, like everything.

Speaker 1 Did not want to talk about debt, money.

Speaker 1 It just was too sensitive.

Speaker 3 I think it is it too personal? Is there too much shame and baggage connected to that? Versus politics and religion, there's just like a tribe you're sort of connected to.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's the only thing I've, I've been able to distill down, and again, I'm just speculating here, is one, yeah, politics, religion,

Speaker 1 questions about sex, intimacy, all those are they're tribal, right? You can get on the internet and find a gang, right?

Speaker 1 When it comes to your money, when you distill all the way down, there's that one question, what are you worth? And there's just nowhere to hide. It's just you.

Speaker 1 And what, what, how much money have you earned? What vacations have you gone on or not gone on? How much debt do you have?

Speaker 1 How much do you owe? It just all comes down. And I think we put so much pressure on that one number.
and here's what i hate about it um

Speaker 1 i mean there's an old saying in in among counselors and therapists secrets will kill you right and so if you are out there talking about stuff and trying to get well and get healthy but you can't

Speaker 1 you feel so much shame around how much money you owe or i don't even know how the stuff works um

Speaker 1 And I wish, you know what? It comes to the mechanics of it. I wish people would believe me

Speaker 1 when I tell people I co-host this show and I text you on Saturdays asking you about a particular fund or I text or talk to Dave about this a particular question. We're always asking each other stuff.

Speaker 1 But I think there's an illusion that if you have a show or if you're on the internet, you know everything about everything. And so I feel embarrassed.
I'm just not going to ask anybody anything.

Speaker 1 People just sit in it and they just keep making the same choices over and over and they look up like the last caller and they're 160 grand in the hole, right?

Speaker 1 It's a zoo, man.

Speaker 3 It's wild. Yeah, I mean, that's on the Ramsey show.
We're trying to make talking about money normal in a good way. You know, there's things that you shouldn't share at Thanksgiving game.

Speaker 1 It says here, only 14% said money is a normal topic at holiday gatherings with friends and family. Don't go home.

Speaker 3 I think it should be lower than that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, don't go home and be like, all right, we're going to go around the table. We're going to pass the rolls, Aunt Janet, and then we're going to see everybody tell everybody what they make.

Speaker 3 Who has the most debt? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Who made the most money this year? Let's go.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Dave Ramsey's not sitting around the Thanksgiving table talking about, hey guys, what's your favorite mutual fund lately? Let's talk stock returns.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and I guess he could go around the table and ask everybody what they make, so

Speaker 1 all his kids work for him, so he kind of knows, right? He knows. He knows.

Speaker 3 But this is the survey said 62% of people were highly uncomfortable sharing their financial details with friends and family.

Speaker 3 38% said they're comfortable sharing bank information with family members and close friends. That should be 0%.

Speaker 1 Bank information?

Speaker 3 That's a very, I mean, that's private. It's like saying, well, I don't want to share my social security number.
I'm uncomfortable talking about.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's a little personal. But I do think we should talk about money goals, money challenges.
We don't have to get into specifics, but you know, we talk about this with relationships.

Speaker 3 It's good to talk about money values early on. You don't need to get into here's how much debt I have, here's how much I make on the first date.

Speaker 3 But it's important to see, hey, what was money like for you growing up?

Speaker 1 And I also think this is so, George. I do think I can see

Speaker 1 money is such a sensitive topic that I can imagine going home. and saying, hey, I had a great year.

Speaker 1 And you got one family member that's like, oh, did we now?

Speaker 1 oh, George is so rich. Right.
Or that's immediately followed by, you know, a cousin being like, hey, man, I need, I need 40 bucks. Can I, right? So I get it.

Speaker 1 But that when everybody's sitting on a table or everyone sitting around a friend group is holding on to something like, hey, I'm scared. Yeah.
Right.

Speaker 1 Or like, I don't know how I'm going to make my payments. Or, hey, I had a really good year.
Can I celebrate it with somebody? I'll tell you this. The first year,

Speaker 1 Own Your Past, Change Your Future at number one, it was a good year. I never had anything like it.
I'm a cops kid, right? My dad was a cop and a minister. My wife was raised by school teachers.

Speaker 1 It was a new year for us. I called one friend.
I was like, I just need to tell somebody. And it was a cool little moment.
He's a banker, and so I could never catch him. But he was like,

Speaker 1 but it was a cool moment to celebrate. And so you've got to have people that you talk about, things you're scared about, talk about things that you can celebrate together.

Speaker 3 Absolutely. Well, I imagine there's a spectrum from if you're broke and you talk about money, there's a lot of shame.
And if you're super well off and you talk about money, there's a lot of guilt.

Speaker 3 And so is there like this middle ground of everyone else is like, hey, we'll talk about it. I don't care.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So I think for me, it comes back to you've got to find some people.
You've got to find some people. And it doesn't have to be your family.

Speaker 1 It doesn't have to be your immediate group of friends, but you need to find some people that you can have conversations about.

Speaker 1 politics, about your faith, about this one says 71% of people are more comfortable commenting on their weight. 81% said they're comfortable discussing their health.

Speaker 1 78% said they openly discuss their political opinions or affiliation. 81%

Speaker 1 said they would openly discuss their religious views. And we ain't talking about money.
Right. So

Speaker 1 we've got to have places where we can just fully let our hair down and say, I'm not all right. Or can we just cheer for a second? I think those are the things.
And there's a right way to do it.

Speaker 3 I personally, as much as I talk about money for work, I don't do it unsolicited. I don't just like hang out with friends.
I'm like, hey, man, let's talk about your financial goals.

Speaker 1 Where are we at?

Speaker 3 I only talk about money when I'm asked about it or when people are openly sharing and they're looking for an opinion. There you go.
And I think that's the important part. No one's looking for opinion.

Speaker 3 Even if you're like the Ramsey, you know, diehard fan, it's not the time to just like ram it down their throat and be like, well, you better follow the Ramsey plan or else. Nobody's excited by that.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Or meeting somebody in the grocery store being like, guess what? I'm a millionaire.
And they're like, yeah, dude, I can't.

Speaker 1 I can't afford eggs. Right.
So there's a balance to it.

Speaker 3 I do love when someone passes me in Costco and they don't even say hi. They just go, paying cash for that.
And they just keep walking. And it's just like an unspoken language we have together.

Speaker 1 So great. Good on you.

Speaker 3 I was at a jeweler and the girl there.

Speaker 1 Ooh, that's a flex. That was a good.

Speaker 3 I was getting a watch repaired, John. Okay, sure.
And she immediately, it was like, I realized I'm like a priest. It was a confessional.

Speaker 3 She saw me and she went, I have a car loan, but it's not that much. It's the only thing I have.
There's $22,000 left. I'm working all hard to pay.
I was like, whoa, hey, release the guilt, Elise.

Speaker 1 Come on.

Speaker 3 Well, so she's working on it. I gave her a book and she's on the path.
And so now she reports back anytime I see her.

Speaker 1 That's great.

Speaker 3 Money confession.

Speaker 1 I won't even tell you some of the strange conversations I've had waiting in airport lines and in bathrooms.

Speaker 3 I can't, I mean, I talk about money. You're talking about mental health, relationships, intimacy, the things people probably share with you unsolicited.

Speaker 1 I can't possibly be top sitting at an airport. I'm pretty sure.
Not in the bathroom.

Speaker 3 Please tell me that's up.

Speaker 1 I've done a few times in the bathroom. Oh, no.
I got a stall.

Speaker 3 I thought there was an unspoken, like, guy rule.

Speaker 1 Bro, you just stare at the tile right ahead of you. We all know that.

Speaker 1 You stare at the tile but i've had two different times someone looks over and they're like oh hey you're on that show and i'm like just look at the tile man and they're like hey you know so me and my wife and it's like not a good time and they're like they're always great like oh you're right you're right you're right and i understand people get excited but um i have had one in the in the in a airport in dfw airport i think it was dallas left field when a couple came up and just started talking about their sex life.

Speaker 3 It was just live therapy.

Speaker 1 I looked at it. I was like, it's not, it's not a great time.
Like, I'm super, like, it means the world to me. I'll listen to the show, but kind of weird.
And you can see it as they're talking.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we just made this exchange super weird. We're just going to go to Whataburger and call it, guys.

Speaker 3 Good to see you guys. So lesson learned here.
There's a context and a place and an environment, a group that it's wise to talk about this stuff.

Speaker 3 And then other times there's a good reason not to talk about it.

Speaker 1 But I will say you have to find people that you can talk about hard things with, period.

Speaker 3 I think that's why Financial Peace University has been so powerful over the last 30 years.

Speaker 1 It's called people into a room.

Speaker 3 You show up and you go, oh, I'm not the only knucklehead that made mistakes. Oh, okay, we're all in this thing together.
Oh, we're not going to just sit here and ridicule each other's mistakes.

Speaker 3 We're going to just focus on getting better.

Speaker 1 Wonderful. And you get to weep together.
And every week you walk in and you see

Speaker 1 an increasingly familiar group of people that's all doing hard stuff together. And y'all celebrate together.

Speaker 1 And I actually, I think that's an unspoken curse on our current generation is everybody talks about their problems. Like, what happened? Who said this? Can you believe this?

Speaker 1 Oh my gosh, so-and-so's running for president. What

Speaker 1 none of us, or very few of us, have people that can call and just be like, Hey, can I just say something awesome happened today? My marriage is amazing. My kids are doing great.

Speaker 1 Can I just say that out loud? And we cheer each other on, right? And so, find people that you could tell the hard stuff to, but also find people you could tell the great stuff to,

Speaker 1 especially about your money. 888-825-5225.
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Speaker 1 And if you're checking this out on YouTube or podcast, it's in the show notes. All right, let's go out to Milwaukee and talk to Alex.
What up, Alex? How are we doing?

Speaker 2 Hey, how are you doing?

Speaker 1 Good, all right, brother. What's up? Yeah.

Speaker 2 I was calling in because I just I do pretty well.

Speaker 2 I do pretty well compared to everybody else, and I just feel like I'm stuck.

Speaker 1 Like, what does that mean?

Speaker 1 What is pretty well compared to everybody else?

Speaker 2 I make probably close to $400,000 a year.

Speaker 1 Okay. And that puts you in the top, top 1% of any human who's ever existed in human history.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 2 I guess I'm just like an ambitious person, and I kind of feel stuck. Like, I don't know what to do if I continue to grow.

Speaker 2 I've done a couple of different things and it didn't pan out very well and I failed at them. I've done a couple other things as well.

Speaker 1 What do you do for what you've learned?

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 my main income is I own a restaurant and then my other couple of things I do, I also own a lube and then I also do real estate.

Speaker 1 A what?

Speaker 1 A real estate? No, the one before that.

Speaker 2 A lube, a quick lube?

Speaker 1 Oh, okay.

Speaker 3 Now I didn't know the industry lingo. Okay, that helps me.

Speaker 1 What's a quick Louvre?

Speaker 2 Yeah. But

Speaker 2 I'm a little bit more.

Speaker 1 Quick Lube. L-U-B.
There you go.

Speaker 3 Yep. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I thought you were talking about those sleds that they have at the bob sledding thing.

Speaker 3 I thought you were like talking about you're like French and you owned the Louvre Art Museum. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 All right. So you're okay.

Speaker 3 Sweet. So successful entrepreneur.

Speaker 1 Yeah, which one of these is your main breadwinner?

Speaker 2 Yes. The Russia.

Speaker 2 okay and what's your question my question is how will i continue to grow i've experienced a couple of failures in the last couple of years with opening new businesses and they didn't turn well i don't really understand like

Speaker 1 roth rhas and all that kind of stuff like my concept has always been invest in stuff and then that'll be growing like are you talking about you want to invest in retirement are we talking about growing your income yeah in the medical community unchecked growth is called cancer so if you just wake up every day like, I gotta grow, I gotta grow, like

Speaker 1 you're gonna implode.

Speaker 1 What are you trying to aim? What are you aiming for? What are you trying to get to?

Speaker 2 I just want to grow as a business person. I want to be able to create generational wealth.

Speaker 2 And, like, I know some people might feel like I've already done that, but I just feel like I still have so much more to accomplish.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I know, but it sounds like you're running from something. What are you running from? Because, listen, Dave Ramsey is worth

Speaker 1 a god-awful amount of money, and he is obsessed pathologically

Speaker 1 with

Speaker 1 helping hurting people.

Speaker 1 And money is just a byproduct of this obsession to help people be free.

Speaker 1 You have an obsession right now with, I got to get more, and I got to get more, and I got to get more.

Speaker 1 And usually for guys like you, that comes at the expense of their families, of their romantic partners, of their kids, of their health, of everything.

Speaker 2 And that's true.

Speaker 2 Me and my wife had some problems a couple of years ago, and I realigned my priorities with my family. And that's gotten a lot better, and we're everything got fixed, and we're a lot happy.

Speaker 1 Bro, you know how I know everything didn't get fixed? Because I've been married for 20-something years. It isn't just, it's not like a car engine.
It's something you continue to grow together with.

Speaker 1 What's your ultimate question? What are you running from? What are you scared of?

Speaker 2 No, I think I just...

Speaker 3 What is driving the insatiable need for growth?

Speaker 3 It sounds like you watched the Grant Cardone video and now you're just like, bro, I got a 10X.

Speaker 1 I got a 10X.

Speaker 3 Like, what is all

Speaker 3 that?

Speaker 1 $400,000 a year. Exhale.

Speaker 2 I don't know if it's competition. And I'm not envious of anybody, but I look at my peers and I feel like I should be doing better.

Speaker 1 That's the definition of envy. That's what it is.

Speaker 2 What I mean is, like, what I'm trying to say is, like, I don't, I'm not mad at what they have. I just, like, I'm happy for them, and I'd like to learn.
I'd like to learn.

Speaker 2 I like to hear people people talk that do better than me. I want to learn.
It's not that I wish them bad or I want, like, I, I, I want it, like, oh, I'm angry at them. It's nothing I thought.

Speaker 2 It's just my, it's like I'm competitive that way in this regard.

Speaker 1 All right, here's your homework. You ready for your homework? You're not going to like it.
Yeah. Promise me.
See, I promise I'll do whatever you tell me.

Speaker 2 I promise I'll do what you tell me.

Speaker 1 All right. You just said that in front of millions of people.
If you lie, you'll probably get struck by lightning. Probably not, but it's just fun to say that.
All right.

Speaker 1 Number one, you cannot get on TikTok or Instagram for 30 days.

Speaker 2 I don't do those anyways.

Speaker 1 I'm just done. Number one, no social media for 30 days.

Speaker 1 Number two, you have to go for a walk with your wife in the morning or in the evening with no phones, no devices for at least 30 minutes every day for 30 days. Number two, how many kids you got?

Speaker 1 One or three. How many kids you got?

Speaker 2 We got four.

Speaker 1 You have four kids? How old?

Speaker 2 I got twins that are four and then a five and a six year old.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 When I ask you what you're running from, one of the most common questions I hear, or common answers I get from high-performing dads, and when I say high-performing high-earner dads, is that they look at the chaos at home and they don't know what to do.

Speaker 1 They don't know how to be a dad of four kids. They don't know how to be a husband of a wife with four kids.
It's just chaos.

Speaker 1 And they think in their heads the greatest gift I could give my family is to not be here and instead to go make money.

Speaker 1 And if you are making money to help people, if you are making money to change a generational situation, go get it

Speaker 1 if you're hiding from your family

Speaker 1 stop

Speaker 1 so I want you to plan something with each one of those kids

Speaker 1 and it could be five minutes or ten minutes I want you to practice plugging in at your home do bedtimes not for 30 days not for the rest of your life I'm not telling you to if anyone makes 400 grand you need to stop what you're doing is don't I'm saying at all

Speaker 1 But if you had a, if you had a desire in your heart to provide good oil change services for people, to provide excellent food for people, I would tell you, George will walk you through how to do all that.

Speaker 1 But I don't hear that. I hear you running, dude, and running and running.

Speaker 1 And those four kids at some point are going to start asking, what was so amazing about that restaurant that he gave it up, gave us up for that thing.

Speaker 1 Do you get what I'm saying?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I just want you to exhale for a second. And, dude, I want you to make $5 million a year.
It's not about the money. It's about George, and I can hear in your voice, man.

Speaker 1 You're not comfortable in your own skin.

Speaker 1 And you're doing a pretty amazing job.

Speaker 3 Here's the best question to ask yourself, Alex, because I've talked and hung out with all these people who are very successful, young guys, making crazy money, net worths of $20 million.

Speaker 3 And the question I think is so powerful for you to ask is this. Two questions or three, three words, and then what? I make $500,000 and then what? I make a million and then what?

Speaker 3 Then I start five more businesses and then what?

Speaker 3 Do you see where that's getting to? There's no real purpose behind it other than, well, because more is better. It's like a toddler mentality, right?

Speaker 3 Yeah. At some point, we have to learn also how to be content and how to have peace.
Otherwise, it's going to destroy you.

Speaker 1 Against that 400 grand, how much do you owe? How much money do you owe?

Speaker 2 I own a substantial amount, but it doesn't come out of like my personal earnings because my real estate pays for it all. Like I buy property, they always put 20% down.
How leveraged are you?

Speaker 2 um

Speaker 2 so i probably like all in all like with everything my personal and you know financial and work stuff i'm probably like 1.1 okay here's what you're doing you're sitting on a time bomb brother

Speaker 1 you owe 1.1 million dollars

Speaker 1 And I know the TikTok bros and the Instagram bros like, bro, you got to leverage this to borrow this. The bank's going to arbitrage.
You're sitting on a bomb. And you know who knows it?

Speaker 1 Your nervous system.

Speaker 1 Your nervous system. Got to slow down, brother.
Hang on the line. I'm going to send you Financial Peace University on us.
I want you to watch it. Control all delete.
Get some peace in your life.

Speaker 1 We'll be right back.

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Speaker 3 Today's question comes from Declan in Washington. Together, my wife and I earned around $300,000 a year.
We both enjoy buying and building Legos together and with our sons.

Speaker 3 We have a large Lego collection, which I've been working on since I was a little kid. We're in baby steps four, five, and six.
How much money is too much money to spend on hobbies like Legos?

Speaker 3 We've been spending 400 to 800 bucks a month for the last six or so months. It's been a blast and it's provided some really great quality time for our family.
Great question.

Speaker 3 So regardless if you're into Legos, it's a good question of how much should you spend on hobbies in the budget? Yeah. People want parameters.
They want the percentage. How much is too much?

Speaker 1 That's a good question for me. I like, I'm not a Legos guy, but I like just,

Speaker 1 I don't know, I just like buying stuff. So yeah, help me out, George.
On behalf of the Declans and the Johns of the world, is there a percentage?

Speaker 3 Yeah, the bad news is I cannot give you a prescriptive percentage because that would be insane. Like if you make a million dollars, it's okay to spend a hundred thousand on your hobby.

Speaker 3 And if you make $20,000, you can only spend 200.

Speaker 3 So what I would say is, if it feels like it's too much, that's probably a good gut check. Your body's saying, hey, let's slow down.
Now, these people make $300,000.

Speaker 3 They're in baby steps 456, meaning they're debt-free with an emergency fund. And therefore, if that's where they want to spend their money, that's totally fine with me.

Speaker 3 And that's not, that's probably a shocking answer. Because here's the thing.
Some people are really into golf. Some of these golf memberships

Speaker 3 are paying $800 a month just for the pleasure of being part of the country.

Speaker 1 That's what it costs to sneeze on the course. Exactly.
$800.

Speaker 3 It's an initiation fee of your firstborn child, I think. And so I don't judge people's decisions for what they spend their money on and their hobbies.

Speaker 3 What I do judge is if they're going into debt for it and if they're doing it at the expense of their financial future. There you go.

Speaker 3 So I would say four to 800 bucks just on a gut check, when you make 300 grand a year, you're probably making what we're talking, what, 15 to 20 grand a month.

Speaker 3 So to spend 800 bucks as a percentage, you're talking that's a fraction of your world. So I would say if that's what you're into right now, go for it.

Speaker 3 It probably won't be a forever hobby that you spend $800 a month for the next 20 years.

Speaker 1 I also want to say this.

Speaker 1 Here's where I'm in support of Declan here. Declan did not try, like I have been guilty of, with like my guitars or other people with their beanie babies or whatever,

Speaker 1 is trying to say, I spend this money, but it's somehow an investment. I love that Declan just straight up said, I love doing this with my family.
It's a way we... bring ourselves together.

Speaker 1 I've been doing this since I was a kid. I love it.
We're pretty much loaded. And is this okay? And for me, if there's, there's it doesn't sound like there's a pathology around it.

Speaker 1 You're not trying to justify it. You're not trying to like twist up some magical story about how this is all going to work out for you financially in the end.
This is just, dude, I like doing it.

Speaker 1 We make a ton of money. I'm assuming you're putting money away in four, five, and six.
I'm assuming you're super generous. Can I tell you, here's a balance I've struck with myself.

Speaker 1 I still have a lot of

Speaker 1 I don't know, purchasing guilt, if you will, just because how I grew up. We grew up with that a lot.
And so

Speaker 1 maybe

Speaker 1 come up with an arrangement that I'm going to buy some Legos, but I'm going to give extra, right? I'm going to tip extra this month, or I've made some deals with myself

Speaker 1 as a way to,

Speaker 1 it's not real. I just made it up.
It's just for me, but it's a, all right, I'm going to buy this guitar, but I'm going to be extra generous in these other areas

Speaker 1 as a way to balance the cost.

Speaker 3 That's a great point. And for me, I'm pretty goal-oriented.
So if I had a mortgage to pay off and college to save up for, I would say, all right, we're going to limit this to $400 a month.

Speaker 3 Anything above and beyond that, we're going to throw toward the mortgage. There you go.
And maybe pay the mortgage principal first, that extra before we buy the Legos.

Speaker 3 And whatever's left becomes the play Lego money. Becomes Lego money.

Speaker 1 That's right.

Speaker 3 And so I think that is a better approach to it if you did want some balance. And again, I see a mortgage payment.
I see the interest racking up. I'm less likely to want to go buy an extra $400.

Speaker 1 That's my hobby, right?

Speaker 3 Then baby step seven.

Speaker 3 Now we get to do some crazy, outrageous things because we don't owe anyone money with your Legos. College is covered.

Speaker 1 All right, let's go out to Pensacola and talk to Ryan. Hey, Ryan, what's up, dude?

Speaker 2 Hey, guys, how's it going?

Speaker 1 Doing all right, brother. What's up?

Speaker 2 Hey, so my situation now is my wife is no longer working full-time. She just gave birth to our second child a few months ago.

Speaker 1 Woo!

Speaker 2 And yeah, we've got a 25-year-old son already.

Speaker 1 Hey, Ryan, I get a lot of grief for interrupting, but can I interrupt you real quick?

Speaker 2 Sure, go ahead.

Speaker 1 Just no one's listening, just me and you real quick. Let's rephrase how you said that, okay? The way you phrased that was, well, my wife quit working.

Speaker 1 She gave birth to a kid, like, as though she messed something up. So let's flip it around.

Speaker 1 Hey, dude, this is so exciting. We just had our second kid, and my wife is staying home with the baby.
Say it like that.

Speaker 1 Okay. Well, that's all right.

Speaker 2 So we just had our second child and my wife is, for the most part, staying home with the baby.

Speaker 1 Amazing. That's awesome.
Way to go, dude. Very cool.

Speaker 1 Thank you. Thank you.
Okay, get to your question.

Speaker 2 Yeah, so we've got a substantial amount of debt.

Speaker 2 You know, we have been kind of living a little bit above our means, but it has been manageable when we were both working full-time.

Speaker 2 Now I'm the primary, you know, moneymaker in the house, and, you know, things are starting to stack up now. We've kind of burned through our savings over the past year.

Speaker 2 So now we're kind of looking at what can we do to, you know, kind of lower our monthly expenses. We've already trimmed the fat as much as we can.

Speaker 2 I don't play golf on the weekends anymore. We don't go out to eat at restaurants anymore.
I've got our grocery bill down pretty low every month, but it's still getting a little out of hand.

Speaker 1 What's out of hand?

Speaker 3 Is it your minimum debt payments?

Speaker 1 What is your total wife spending a lot of money?

Speaker 2 Yeah, so most of our debt is tied up in two vehicle payments that are both upside down.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 1 how upside down?

Speaker 1 $5,000 or $20,000?

Speaker 2 Her car is we owe $23,000 on it, and it's worth about $17,000.

Speaker 2 And my truck, we owe $15,000 on, and it's worth about $12,000.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 And is that private party value? How'd you get to those numbers of what it's worth?

Speaker 2 Yeah, private party value on KVV.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 So we have a deficit here of $9,000. What's left in savings, if if anything?

Speaker 2 Nothing. So there was about $4,000 in savings a year ago, and we've just been eating through that slowly, trying to keep up with things.

Speaker 2 We've got a personal loan that's $9,000, and I've got a credit card that's $2,500. And then we've got various little small credit cards that total up to about a grand.

Speaker 1 I'm going to let George walk you through the nuts and bolts, but I just want to say this, and I'm going to get some hate for it, but it is what it is.

Speaker 1 You have created a world for yourselves where staying at home may not be an option for a season. You simply, it's a math problem.
It's not a values problem. It's a math problem.

Speaker 1 You owe a ton of money to it.

Speaker 3 And if she was making $4K a month and daycare is $2,500, that's $1,500 extra dollars we can put toward debt. You see the math there?

Speaker 3 Right.

Speaker 2 Thankfully, my wife is working part-time at the preschool my son goes to, so we get a discount there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but it's not cutting it, though. It's not working.

Speaker 1 You have a math problem. And it's because of the life y'all lived before you had kids.
Right, right.

Speaker 3 So here's a few things you can do. Number one, cut up the credit cards yesterday.
Get on an every dollar budget yesterday. I'll give it to you for free if you'll use it.

Speaker 3 And you're going to list out your income, then list out all of your expenses. And anything that isn't food, shelter, utilities, transportation, insurance, or minimum debt payments, it's gone.

Speaker 3 And on top of that, we need to go figure out ways to make more.

Speaker 3 And that might mean, hey, dad's going to have to go after work to deliver pizzas or do uber or whatever overtime you can do in order to make this work but it sounds like you guys have my guess is about 40 50 000 in debt how much do you make

Speaker 2 uh i make with overtime and commissions i make 55 000 a year Yeah, that's not gonna, you gotta make more money, brother. 22 an hour, you know, about 45 hours a week.

Speaker 3 So we need to figure out how to create at least two grand in margin so that in a year we throw 24 at it.

Speaker 1 this thing's done in two years that's the math problem you guys need to figure out and that might mean she goes back to work for a season yeah and it might mean you're working seven days a week for the next two years man to dig out of this hole and for everybody listening man

Speaker 1 i'm telling you the debt's not worth it this is the ramsey show we'll be back next hour right here

Speaker 1 What's going on? What's going on? I'm John with my good friend George Camel, and this is the Ramsey Show live from Nashville, Tennessee.

Speaker 1 We are taking your calls on money, on building wealth, on your relationships, on your work, whatever you got going on in your life. Triple 8-825-5225.
George and I will sit with you. We'll listen.

Speaker 1 We'll figure out the next right step. We'll go out to Phoenix, Arizona, and talk to Cruz.
What's up, Cruz?

Speaker 2 Hi.

Speaker 1 How we doing?

Speaker 2 I'm doing good.

Speaker 1 Excellent, brother. What's up, man?

Speaker 2 So I'm 20 years old.

Speaker 2 Got married right out of high school. And

Speaker 2 I'm currently working at a church

Speaker 2 doing maintenance and stuff

Speaker 2 around minimum wage.

Speaker 3 And what's minimum wage?

Speaker 2 Actually, I'm a little above. I think I'm making $16 an hour.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 2 So my wife works as well. So I think our monthly take-home is around $4,000.

Speaker 2 But it's really expensive out here in phoenix so i'm wondering if um i need to maybe look into somewhere i can make more money or if i should move somewhere cheaper or

Speaker 2 i i don't know

Speaker 1 i'm gonna let george handle the dollars and cents but can i just use you as a as a case study for what's going on in america right now

Speaker 2 uh sure

Speaker 1 i feel like we've all been told particularly those age 40 to 20

Speaker 1 that That you have a right to work whatever job you want to work and live wherever you want to live in, whatever city you want to live, whatever neighborhood you want to live even,

Speaker 1 and that it should work out.

Speaker 1 And I love your humility, man.

Speaker 1 You're doing literally the Lord's work, man. You're cleaning toilets and fixing light bulbs.
And I was a maintenance man at a church for years. You're doing good work behind the scenes, man.

Speaker 1 And you live in an expensive place. And so now you've got this math problem, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah. And it's frustrating because you like the work you do and you do good work and you help people out.
You're working for a bigger mission than just getting wealthy.

Speaker 1 And you probably have friends and community and family in Arizona. Is that right? In Phoenix? Yeah.
Yeah. That's right.
I hate that for you, brother. But yeah, you're running up against,

Speaker 1 and I appreciate you just being open about it. Like you're running up against a problem that everyone's running up against, which is, I wanted to live here.
I wanted to do this job.

Speaker 1 And the math isn't working. And George and I were just talking off air.
George gets roasted alive for suggesting, well, you have to make a change. You don't understand.
You're an idiot.

Speaker 1 You don't care about me. No, it's.
I love you enough to say it's a math problem. Like, it's just a math problem.
It just is. So, um,

Speaker 1 man, what do you think, George?

Speaker 3 What does your wife think about this? Is she open to moving? Is she open to you switching careers and kind of having a big life change?

Speaker 2 Well, uh, I mean, we talk about it, but we are really connected here. You know, all our families here.
We have deep friendships at our church. And,

Speaker 2 you know, so it would be a hard thing and we wouldn't know where to go. And as for a career change, I don't know what else I would want to do in life currently.

Speaker 3 Well, we can help with that. I'm going to make sure before you get off the line, we give you Ken's new book, Find the Work You're Wired to Do.

Speaker 3 It includes a get-clear career assessment, and it'll help you get some gears turning about what you were really wired to do on this earth to make an impact.

Speaker 3 And it might mean, hey, I got to leave the church. I'm going to go do this other thing.
I'm going to get this education, this credential.

Speaker 3 And for now, it might mean I'm going to go to Target and pick up a job making $20,000 an hour instead of $16,000 because that $4 an hour is an extra $8,000 a year that we can use to get closer to our goals.

Speaker 3 So what is your next financial goal? Do you guys have debt? Do you have savings?

Speaker 2 Yeah, we got about a little over $2,000 in medical debt that we should be able to pay off soon. And

Speaker 2 we ran into a car problem and lost our baby step one. So we've got to build that up again.

Speaker 3 So that's it. You just have two grand of medical debt?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So the debt is not the thing holding you back.

Speaker 3 It's not like if you were debt-free, we can have our best life. We need to get the income up in order to live.
What's your rent right now?

Speaker 2 Right now I got it at $1,200. But in reality, I'm renting like a little house from my parents on their property.

Speaker 1 So it's sort of like artificially deflated rent.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. Okay.

Speaker 3 So let's say we kept this rental situation until we got the better paying job, got out of the debt, got an emergency fund. Is that a good exit strategy?

Speaker 2 I think

Speaker 2 I don't know.

Speaker 2 I don't know. Just looking out here, cheapest rent you can find, $1,600 or $1,800 plus.

Speaker 2 Yeah, for a one-bedroom.

Speaker 3 What does your wife do? And what does she make?

Speaker 2 She also helps with the church preschool, and she works at Starbucks. And

Speaker 2 she makes probably about as much as I do. Overall, we bring in four grand a month.

Speaker 1 So, Cruz, I'm going to speak directly to you because I love you, okay?

Speaker 1 You're faced with a couple of challenges that really are not going to move. It's just expensive to live in Phoenix.
Everyone in America wants to be hot all the time, I guess.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 working at the church pays 16 bucks an hour.

Speaker 3 It's a job. It's not a a career.
And I want you guys to both sink your teeth into a career. Even if that's you, man, you're handy.

Speaker 3 You could go start a handyman business in Phoenix and charge 50 to 75 bucks an hour. Do you believe that?

Speaker 2 I'm sure I could figure that out.

Speaker 3 But you could even tell the people at the church and say, listen, I'm available for hire. I'm $60 an hour.
I do good, reliable work.

Speaker 1 I was going to say you can mow lawns, but the grass doesn't grow in Phoenix, but you can shovel rocks, right? But listen, here's the thing.

Speaker 3 You can quadruple your income tomorrow if you do that.

Speaker 1 Can I just talk to to you? Just

Speaker 1 well, you call, so I am going to talk to you.

Speaker 1 Dude, you can't just sit at home and go, well, you know, huh?

Speaker 1 You deserve more than that.

Speaker 1 You know what I mean? I feel, I can hear you just feel trapped.

Speaker 3 You lost your mojo, man. When's the last time Cruz was real pumped about something? Fired up.

Speaker 3 What was it?

Speaker 2 Probably.

Speaker 3 Was it a project? Something you were doing?

Speaker 2 I was back in high school when

Speaker 2 I was renovating renovating the house I live in now and getting married. And I got this job at the church.
And yeah.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 Here's what you were doing. You were building something.
You were building towards your future. You and your wife go out tonight.
You don't have a lot of money to spend, but go do something.

Speaker 1 Even if it's going for a walk on a park bench or something. And y'all map out where you want to be in two and a half years.

Speaker 1 Just pick a number, man.

Speaker 1 And almost be a little bit unrealistic about it. And then I want you to get on the phone tomorrow and call Target and call Walmart and call McDonald's, call everybody.

Speaker 1 Because you can serve that church on a volunteer basis when you can breathe, when your wife can breathe, and you got stability in your house.

Speaker 1 But the Mopey, like, oh, well, I don't know, it's hard, man.

Speaker 1 Dude,

Speaker 1 you're going to look up in two years and your problem's going to be here and you're going to have a kid on the way.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah, I worry about that sometimes.

Speaker 1 Okay. Then here's what we didn't want to do.
I'm going to stop worrying about it, and I want you to take action, take action, take action, take action. Okay.

Speaker 1 Five applications by the time you go to bed tonight, 10 applications tomorrow. Let's see what you can cobble together work-wise and just go make some money.

Speaker 1 And what you're going to find is, I don't like retail. I love retail.
Oh, this guy who I'm working for at retail needs somebody to help with a bathroom model. I can do that.

Speaker 1 And now you're off to the races. Or George said, like, man, call somebody at your, put the call out at your church.
I'm here to help anybody do anything after hours.

Speaker 1 And here's what I charge: I charge 40 bucks an hour, and I'm the best there is, and I'll be on time and I'll finish below budget.

Speaker 1 Man, you'll have more work than you know what to do with, but you got to go, you got to go, you got to go, you got to go. We can't want this more than you do.

Speaker 3 Hang on the line, we're going to send you Ken Coleman's find the work you're wired to do. Be sure to take the get-clear career assessment inside of that.

Speaker 3 I think it will unlock some really cool things for you.

Speaker 1 Welcome back to the Ramsey Show, triple-8-825-5225. I'm John Deloney, joined by Jorge Camel.
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Let's go out to Chitown and talk to Chris. What up, Chris? How are we doing?

Speaker 2 Hello.

Speaker 1 Hey, Chris.

Speaker 1 Hey. What's up?

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 2 hey, I want to know a couple things. Okay.

Speaker 2 We have some debt. We have

Speaker 2 some debt.

Speaker 2 So finding out that as a couple, we have about $575,000 in debt, I don't have a job.

Speaker 1 How much of that debt's your mortgage?

Speaker 2 Our mortgage is $332,000 and a second mortgage at $65,000.

Speaker 3 Which ones did you know about?

Speaker 2 I knew about that, and I thought we probably had some credit card debt, but I didn't know it was this significant.

Speaker 1 Was this done behind your back? Or is this you're not paying attention?

Speaker 1 I hear in your voice, you're trying very much to not dishonor your husband by telling the truth that he borrowed a whole bunch of money behind your back and hadn't told you the truth.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 2 correct. And he also took out about 80,000, I think, in our 401k that he didn't tell me about.

Speaker 1 What is he spending this on?

Speaker 2 He is spending it on, I believe, our

Speaker 2 paying, what do they say, robbing Peter to pay Paul. I think we're just cycling back.

Speaker 1 What did he use it to pay? Not this much.

Speaker 2 Cars, probably some vacations that I didn't really understand weren't real money, but credit card money. My daughter's

Speaker 2 at college, and we're paying for that. We're paying for all her expenses.
She's in her fourth year. She's a senior right now.

Speaker 2 But we also have a significant son. Well, our son is significantly disabled, and he lives with us.
He's 24. And so that prevents me from having income outside of the home.

Speaker 1 Because you're a full-time caregiver?

Speaker 3 Correct. That doesn't explain $180,000 of outside spending and debt.

Speaker 1 Yeah, here's what you really need is for him to sit down with receipts.

Speaker 1 And here's, and here's, this is a hard conversation we're having, and we're going through it real quick.

Speaker 1 George and I don't see very often that this much debt this fast is taken on things.

Speaker 1 Like, you get what I'm saying? Like, it's not usually like a couple of vacations and a new car.

Speaker 1 Almost always there's something nefarious going on.

Speaker 2 Is there an addiction? Is there anything that's not?

Speaker 1 My head goes right to addiction. My head goes right to somebody else.
My head goes right to there's a big gambling issue. Like my head goes to there's something big going on.

Speaker 1 And hey, look, if he sits down and says, no, no, no, here's 100 grand in college tuition. Here's these two vacations.
Here's these two cars. Okay, cool.
Just show the receipts. Okay.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 you don't have that piece because the wool just got, I mean, the rug just got pulled out from under you.

Speaker 2 It really, yeah, it really, it really did. So I know he likes to gamble.

Speaker 3 He likes to, you know, well, you buried the lead there, Chris.

Speaker 1 There it is. Yeah.
Own as he receipts.

Speaker 3 You're telling me. That someone who likes to gamble, who spent and went 180 grand into debt, spent none of it on gambling.

Speaker 2 But what if it was over a period of about 10 years? Is that feasible?

Speaker 1 Anything's feasible. That's 20 grand a year.
Of course, that's feasible.

Speaker 1 How am I going to know if it's a gambling debt?

Speaker 1 Just show me the receipts.

Speaker 3 I have a hard time believing he's going to prove that there was $178,000 or whatever spent on, well, I use that to pay down this debt and pay the tuition and cover this cost.

Speaker 3 He's not going to be able to come up with it. He's going to get defensive and he's going to get angry.

Speaker 1 How did you find out, Chris? we've already been there okay we've already been there how did you find out um

Speaker 2 but yeah he's defensive and angry and then i finally pulled up the wells fargo app that shows credit reports and um debt and i was astonished okay i want you to pull all three credit reports

Speaker 1 okay

Speaker 1 and you can go to annualcreditreport.com and do this for free don't pay for it they're all free and i want you to compare and find out just how bad it is i also want your kids to pull credit reports and see if anything has been taken taken out in their name on their social security number.

Speaker 1 Again, all this is free, annualcreditreport.com.

Speaker 1 And I want you to hear the words that we, this is what we call this in our house and here in this building. We call this financial infidelity.

Speaker 1 That betrayal is that deep. Because now you got a special needs son that's 24 and you've already been thinking about life after you guys.
And you're thinking about a special needs trust.

Speaker 1 And then you find out you're $200,000 in the hole.

Speaker 1 Right?

Speaker 1 And so

Speaker 1 we have to have a come to Jesus truth telling. Everything's got to be on the table, and then we got to figure out a plan working its way out.

Speaker 3 And part of that plan is we are freezing our credit, all of it, your credit, my credit. No one is taking out a loan ever again for any reason.

Speaker 1 It might be telling your senior in college, you got to pay for the last semester on your own. Sorry.

Speaker 1 We're broke. You got to sell some cars.
You got to sell the house. I mean, there's going to be a reckoning to this.

Speaker 3 What does he make?

Speaker 2 He makes $16,000. I just asked him, $162 a year.

Speaker 1 Okay. But he's in sales, so it's, you know, fluctuating.
It's up and down. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Chris, I hope beyond everything that this is just the accumulation of a couple of grand a month over the course of 10 years. I hope that's the case.

Speaker 1 It would be very rare if there's not something else going on.

Speaker 1 I love being wrong. I'm wrong often.
My wife reminds me. I love being wrong.
I hope I'm wrong here, but more so than I hope I'm wrong. I hope you get some peace in your life.
Hang on the line.

Speaker 1 I'm gonna send you

Speaker 1 Financial Peace University. This is 101.
This is back to basics, and your husband's gonna say, I need to watch that crap. He does.

Speaker 1 He's about to lose his wife over it, okay?

Speaker 1 Y'all watch these lessons together, and then I'm gonna send you every dollar, the best budgeting app, and y'all are gonna be able to keep track together on how this expenses are gonna go.

Speaker 1 Full transparency.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you don't get to stay ignorant for another day, Chris. You're gonna be very involved from here on out.

Speaker 1 We'll be right back.

Speaker 1 Welcome back. This is the Ramsey Show 888-825-5225.
I'm John Deloney, joined by George Camille. We have this rad new thing called the Ramsey Network app.

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We've got all kinds of cool stuff. It's the Ramsey Network app.

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Speaker 1 The question is from Thomas.

Speaker 1 This is going to be a fun, fun answer because you and I probably handle this very, very differently. Very.

Speaker 3 I thought this is the question for John. And I thought this is a hilarious.

Speaker 1 I'd like to know George's answer to this. While in baby step two, how should people prioritize

Speaker 1 emergency preparedness, such as purchasing generators, food, water, and general

Speaker 1 supplies for when it all goes down? Well, actually, they didn't say that. For an unknown future, I added that part for emphasis because, George, I think that's the spirit behind it.

Speaker 1 It's all coming down. That's right.
And actually, as I say that, in jest,

Speaker 1 I have stored food. I've got stored water.
I've got a generator.

Speaker 1 And there's Hurricane of the Century heading towards Florida. So this is a legit question.
This doesn't feel like a,

Speaker 1 and while we're at it, you know, the moon landing was fake and the earth is flat.

Speaker 3 This isn't quite conspiracy.

Speaker 1 No, that's for real.

Speaker 3 I'm going to assume the best intent from Thomas here. Okay, this is a normal, level-headed person.
Correct, correct.

Speaker 3 So baby step two means you have $1,000 and a starter emergency fund, but all other money is going toward debt payoff.

Speaker 3 So he's saying, hey, how do I prioritize things like a generator, food, water, supplies? Well, I would say we got to limit what we can do.

Speaker 3 We're not going to go build a bunker and spend 20 grand, but if you want to go to Costco and get a little emergency preparedness kit for 60 bucks, put it in the budget and go do it.

Speaker 3 So I would just say you got to limit how much we're spending on this preparedness idea. Is this a can of gas in the garage or is this a $5,000 generator?

Speaker 1 There's a big difference. And I think there's, I love that, George.
There's some nuance here. So emergency preparedness started a week ago for people in the path of Hurricane Milton.

Speaker 1 It's headed right there. Right.
And so I would have considered that an emergency, pause everything, get water, get some food,

Speaker 1 and or fill up your cars with gas and get some gas cans and go stay with some relatives or some friends in a safe location.

Speaker 1 So preparedness, when it's acute, like, man, you got to do what you got to do to survive and take care of your four walls.

Speaker 1 Preparedness, as in maybe like me, you watch a lot of YouTube videos and got some good Instagram accounts on when it's all coming down, right?

Speaker 1 For me, the most pressing emergency in my household was how much money I owed people that would come knocking on my door or take my house from me, take my cars from me, right?

Speaker 1 So that is a bigger emergency, number one. Number two, then you begin to say, okay, do we have, I live in the country.
So if the power goes out, I don't have any water. Like, I got to go get

Speaker 1 buckets of water to flush my toilets, right? That's different than living in the city. So ask yourself where you are, and that's a part of living out in the country.

Speaker 1 And then the other thing is, over time, yeah, you don't owe anybody any money. You're working on baby steps four, five, and six.
As a family, save up and buy a generator.

Speaker 1 Are you going to have a portable generator or one you're going to have built into the ground that's going to automatically kick on?

Speaker 3 I haven't thought this through, John. Thanks for asking the hard questions.

Speaker 1 You're welcome. But again,

Speaker 1 here's what I want people to do.

Speaker 1 Make these purchases intentionally. Don't make these purchases haphazardly from a state of panic.
Remember, when your body goes to fight or flight, when you watch enough videos and your palms start

Speaker 1 sweating and your heart rate's racing, you're like, oh, I got it, it's all coming down.

Speaker 1 You're not going to make informed, rational decisions. And if you're still paying off your student loans, you don't need to have five years of food.

Speaker 1 You need to pay off student loans. Pay off your student loans.
And again, all this is coming from a guy that's got a generator and food and water. You know what I mean? And I just know a guy.

Speaker 1 And you know,

Speaker 1 you'll never find me, George. You'll never make it.
Here's what I know. Your Tesla will run out of charge again.

Speaker 3 Thank you. It wouldn't make it very far trying to evacuate anywhere, unfortunately.

Speaker 3 So there's that.

Speaker 1 That's a great video. You just pile in the family.
Let's go. Let's go.

Speaker 1 And it makes it to interesting.

Speaker 3 Trust me, my wife was like, I was like, we got her a new to her car. And I was like, hey, you should get a Tesla.
And she was like. We are not going to be in all.
Like, are you serious?

Speaker 3 We're going to have a gas car in the family.

Speaker 1 That's a very anti-fragile. Anti-fragile wife.
Good for her. All right.
Let's go out to Tampa, Florida, and talk to Jared. Should have gone to Jared.
We're going to Jared. What's up, Jared?

Speaker 2 Hey, how's it going?

Speaker 1 What's up?

Speaker 2 Just calling in. First, I want to say thank you, guys.

Speaker 2 You know, working through your guys' steps and working with Jim Stoball

Speaker 2 is what allowed us to get out of debt and have an emergency fund to buy the plywood and board up our house and evacuate to Tennessee.

Speaker 1 Yeah. We hope you guys are safe, man.
Are you guys out?

Speaker 2 Yeah, we're in Tennessee right now.

Speaker 1 Oh, good.

Speaker 1 Good, good, good, good.

Speaker 2 I have family down there, but, you know, just praying for them.

Speaker 1 That's right.

Speaker 1 We all have those family members, Jared, that just decide, nope, we're going to stay. So, yeah, we'll pray for them.
We will pray for them, pray for them. How can I help you today, brother? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, my question is just thinking about

Speaker 2 future family planning. My wife is here with me, and we don't have any kids yet, but

Speaker 2 I'm trying to figure out the health insurance thing I've had people recommend high deductible with high deductible plans with an HSA

Speaker 2 or you know there's standard plans or I'm on MetaShare

Speaker 2 and so

Speaker 2 what do you guys recommend for as far as that goes

Speaker 3 well there's two kind of buckets to put this in if you and your family are relatively healthy then the high deductible health plan makes a lot of sense and you get the hsa which is one of my favorite tools out there because it's triple tax advantage.

Speaker 3 So the money goes in tax-free, it grows tax-free. You can withdraw it tax-free from medical expenses.
So it's a really cool tool.

Speaker 3 And then like a PPL plan might be better if you go to the doctor a lot, if there's kind of chronic health issues. And so there's kind of two buckets.

Speaker 3 If you go to, if you're like always going to the doctor, you might hit that out of pocket pretty fast and then it's covered.

Speaker 3 But if you never go to the doctor, that's also a bucket where the high deductible health plan wins. So it really depends on you and your family situation, your health.

Speaker 3 So what would you say is the status of your family and their health?

Speaker 2 Yeah, we're both really healthy.

Speaker 2 We like to do checkups, you know, once or twice a year. But just taking in a couple of years, you know, we want to start having kids and

Speaker 2 want to make sure that we've got help with that and coverage for that.

Speaker 3 Yeah. That makes sense.
Well, the pros of like a PPO versus the high deductible health plan is there's the lower deductible and there's lower out-of-pocket max.

Speaker 3 The cons are there's higher premiums and there's a smaller provider network. So the high deductible health plan wins when you look at the premiums every month, but it does have a higher deductible.

Speaker 3 So if you guys can save up for that out-of-pocket max and be prepared for that higher deductible, then I think it's going to be a win in most cases.

Speaker 3 And it's what I personally have for my family through Ramsey as I do the high-deductible health plan within HSA. I imagine John does the same.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's what we do. And I'll tell you, Jared, if I was back running it back again, having little babies, I'm too old for that now.
But if I was having babies

Speaker 1 and I knew, like you, I'm going to plan for two years from now or three years from now.

Speaker 1 My intention would be to go into that three years out and save up money and go to the hospital and say, what is the cash pay for baby? And they'll give you an all-inclusive cost.

Speaker 1 Now, if you have an emergency C-section, something like that, of course, it's going to be extra, but often they will, almost always, they'll give you a cash option to come and have a baby.

Speaker 1 And it's inclusive of the before and some of the limited aftercare. So I would have that conversation, but it might be just $5,000 or $7,000.

Speaker 1 And it's like, all right, we got three years to save up for that. Let's head on down that road.

Speaker 2 All right. And then

Speaker 2 as far as like the high deductible plan with an HSA goes, that high deductible,

Speaker 2 like we'd save up for that. And would that be part of the emergency fund or is that something to save up for separately?

Speaker 3 I think it's fine to have in the emergency fund. The chances of like the HVAC went out plus the deductible and all these things happening at once is very slim.

Speaker 3 But let's say the deductible is seven thousand dollars for the family i would make sure to have at least seven grand and when you have your three to six months expenses saved up that's likely going to be fifteen or twenty grand so you'll be plenty in the clear as far as that goes yeah and george i that's and that's what we've always done is hold the deductible as a part of the emergency fund it wasn't on top of the emergency fund and plus you have the hsa to cover medical expenses as you begin contributing to that yeah and so if you can if you can i say get lucky if you can go a month a year and not have to touch that HSA, that becomes a really

Speaker 3 wonderful cushion.

Speaker 1 That's it.

Speaker 3 Be on the floor, and then you becomes like a retirement account. That's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 Hey, that's it for this segment. We'll be back in just a few minutes right here on the Ramsey Show.

Speaker 1 Welcome back to the Ramsey Show, 888-825-5225. It's 888-825-5225.
I'm John Deloney, joined by George Camill, the the handsomest face in radio. Wow.
Let's go out to

Speaker 1 Minneapolis, Minnesota, and talk to Laura. Hey, Laura, what's up?

Speaker 1 Hi.

Speaker 1 What's going on?

Speaker 2 Well, first of all, I want to say thank you.

Speaker 2 Last year, I worked through the Ramsey plan and paid off my student loans. So

Speaker 1 I appreciate all the work that you guys do. How much did you pay off?

Speaker 2 $47,000.

Speaker 1 Wow. So do you not owe anybody anything anymore?

Speaker 2 Nothing. Nope.

Speaker 1 All right. Can we do an impromptu? You do a debt-free scream right here on the radio?

Speaker 2 Sure.

Speaker 1 Can you scream your head off? Are you in a place where you can scream real loud?

Speaker 2 I'm in my work parking lot.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's

Speaker 1 people already think you're crazy. It'd be great.
It's true. All right.
Count it down. You paid off how much? What's the total?

Speaker 1 $47,000. $47,000.
All right. We got Laura from Minneapolis paid off $47,000 doing an impromptu.
Kind of weird. Screaming in her parking lot, debt-free scream.
Let it rip.

Speaker 1 Do I count it down? Count it down. Three, two, one.

Speaker 2 Three, two, one.

Speaker 2 I'm in debt-free.

Speaker 1 Dude, look at George even coming through. All right.

Speaker 3 The best is you're watching on YouTube. The team zoomed in on the debt-free stage with the graphic and animation.
Well done.

Speaker 1 Just only thing it's missing was you.

Speaker 1 Yes. All right.
So what's up, Laura? How can we help?

Speaker 2 Um, okay, so actually, well, speaking of being debt-free, so

Speaker 2 I found some land recently,

Speaker 2 and it's a really good deal,

Speaker 2 and I don't necessarily have the funds for it.

Speaker 1 So, normally I wouldn't even consider that. That makes it not a good deal.

Speaker 2 I know, I know, but hear me out, hear me out.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 2 So, it's 20 acres for $29,000.

Speaker 1 Oh, that sounds so awesome.

Speaker 2 I know.

Speaker 1 That's what I'm saying. I might buy it.

Speaker 1 Is there bodies buried on it? Why is that cheap? It's so cheap.

Speaker 2 Well, I can't give the specifics. I don't want anyone else to find it.

Speaker 1 Wow. Yeah, just tell me where the GPS coordinates are.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 it's like I've driven past this land a million times. I checked it out last night.
I plan to check it out with the seller.

Speaker 2 I think the owner is just selling it directly. I'm planning to check it out tonight with him.

Speaker 2 And it's just a wooded area. A little bit of it.

Speaker 2 I don't plan to

Speaker 2 build a house on it or anything anytime soon. I would honestly live on it in a tent

Speaker 2 or just save quite a bit before

Speaker 1 building or anything.

Speaker 3 Then why are you buying this? Camping is a lot cheaper if you don't need 20 acres.

Speaker 2 Well, eventually I would like to.

Speaker 1 Have you ever lived in the woods?

Speaker 2 I've camped plenty.

Speaker 1 Have you ever lived in the woods?

Speaker 2 No, No, but I have considered it many times.

Speaker 1 I do live a place where I rent. I do.
And it's awesome.

Speaker 1 But it is not what you think. It's a lot.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I guess I don't necessarily need to live there because I do rent for pretty cheap. So I could rent, you know, for a long time before building on there.

Speaker 2 But I guess the point of it was I don't plan to spend any more than the $29,000.

Speaker 1 I know, but you don't have $29,000. I don't have $29,000.
I don't have $29,000.

Speaker 3 Can I give you a great mama camel

Speaker 3 I'm going to say it in Arabic. I'm going to butcher it, but it's ⁇

Speaker 3 And that's what this literally translates to. The camel costs one penny, and I don't have one penny.

Speaker 3 Is that not the coolest mama camel wisdom right there? So here's what that means.

Speaker 3 The thing that's the best deal that you can't afford is a bad deal.

Speaker 3 Right. So you're going to make payments on this thing that sits there.
that you don't even use all for the pleasure of knowing that you could camp on it?

Speaker 2 Yes, but I actually can't take out a loan on it because I don't have.

Speaker 1 You're correct. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Because no bank thinks this is a good investment.

Speaker 1 And you know what the bank wants? Your business. And when they're like, oh, we can't take your business,

Speaker 1 then that's called a gatekeeper. They're trying to protect you from yourself.

Speaker 3 So your only option would then be to do like an owner financing thing where they essentially loan you the money and you pay them back and you just create your own deal.

Speaker 2 Uh-huh.

Speaker 1 And I have a feeling you're actually going to try to do that when you go walk it.

Speaker 2 You probably don't. So actually, I was wondering, maybe if there was some kind of other option, like, have people convinced owners to wait six to eight months while someone loves

Speaker 1 it? They absolutely have. They have.

Speaker 3 I mean, they've had this land forever. If you really convince them that Laura is amazing, this is who I want this land to go to.

Speaker 3 And then you work your tail off and go save up 29 grand, maybe they'll call it good and say, all right, we're willing to sit on this land for 12 months, but you're agreeing to buy this at this future date.

Speaker 1 And I'm making this up. Dave is a real estate guy, so I'm making this up.
But if maybe there's a contingency contract that says, I will, I intend to buy this in six months, and here's my plan.

Speaker 1 And even invoke the name Ramsey. I'm a Ramseyite.
I don't have the cash. I'm saving up like mad.
I just paid off all my student loans. I really want this.
Will you hold it for six months?

Speaker 1 And here's my plan for how I'm going to get $29,000.

Speaker 1 Maybe.

Speaker 1 Maybe. Maybe.

Speaker 2 So there's a small chance.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So you're telling me there's a chance, right?

Speaker 1 Lloyd Christmas thought thought the same thing.

Speaker 1 But can I tell you something

Speaker 1 to give you some sort of optimism?

Speaker 1 Sure. I promise, I promise, I promise, other land will pop up.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 It just does. It does.
It does.

Speaker 2 I think so. I think this is a good deal.
I don't usually find lands in this cheap, or I haven't. But also, my friend just told me last night.
She was like, do you need 20 acres?

Speaker 2 Or would you be fine with a lot less? I think I would be fine with a lot less.

Speaker 1 You would, you would. But here's what you have in your head.
You've worked really hard for the last few years and you're tired and you deserve this.

Speaker 1 And it's kind of a carrot out there and it feels awesome. And, dude, I totally get it.
I've got land for sale all around me and I can't afford it.

Speaker 1 And it makes me B-A-N-A-N-A-S, as the great Gwen Stefani once sang. It makes me crazy.

Speaker 1 But I can't afford it. And so I can torture myself every day by being like, oh my gosh, if I could just, I can't afford it.
So I can go play with my kids.

Speaker 1 It's a better use of my time or go run around with my dogs, right?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Just don't make yourself bananas.

Speaker 2 Uh-huh.

Speaker 1 You know what I mean? And what are you going to do with 20 acres for real? Like, what are you going to do? Are you a hunter?

Speaker 2 Well, sometimes we're going to family hunt. So,

Speaker 1 yeah.

Speaker 2 But I mean, that would be a lot more expensive than hunting on some free land.

Speaker 1 And what's the taxes on this 20 acres?

Speaker 2 I don't actually know. I'd have to ask the owner.

Speaker 1 That's a great question. What's the easements?

Speaker 3 What is the ongoing maintenance cost?

Speaker 2 It's right on land, or it's right on a road.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and what's the easement cost?

Speaker 1 Just to pay part of that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's just a lot. And

Speaker 1 I feel like I'm ruining your dream. And you're actually one of the people.
I don't want to ruin your dream. I'm happy for you.
I wish every American could own 20 acres. It's amazing.

Speaker 1 You just don't have $30,000.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 But I could get there pretty soon, I think. Okay.

Speaker 1 Come up with a compelling story, get a guitar, maybe sing it to the guy. Maybe he'll hear that.

Speaker 1 Or you may take him out and he just

Speaker 1 gets really mad that you wasted his time. He's going to look at you and be like, you don't have any money? And be like, no, but I really want it.
In eight months, I really want it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but you don't have anything.

Speaker 3 Or it's a Christmas miracle and he gifts it to her at no charge.

Speaker 1 Christmas miracles. That's the George I know.

Speaker 3 I'd always ask, why are you getting rid of it?

Speaker 3 It's a fair question to ask.

Speaker 1 Why are you getting rid of it so cheap?

Speaker 3 Where are the bodies buried?

Speaker 1 What's going on, Buster? Yeah, there's like some secret.

Speaker 3 It just feels awfully cheap.

Speaker 1 I know it's, you you know menium under there land ain't cheap these days so like a grand an acre feels insane i know i kind of want to get it even though i don't go to you'll never find it

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Speaker 1 The answer is correct. You're like four years older than me.
Whatever. He's playing Fortnite underneath the table over here.

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