Gold Digger Exploits Beta Husband | Financial Audit

28 Oct 2024 · 1 h 27 min

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Podcast Episode Summary: Gold Digger Exploits Beta Husband | Financial Audit

Description In this episode of "Financial Audit," Caleb Hammer conducts a detailed financial review of a couple living in Houston, Texas. The couple, Garrett and his wife, discuss their financial habits, spending patterns, and the challenges they face in managing their finances responsibly.

Key Participants

  • Caleb Hammer: Host and financial expert
  • Garrett: 36 years old, works in the oil and gas industry
  • Garrett's Wife: A flight attendant, also a full-time mother

Episode Highlights

Financial Overview

  • Household Income: Garrett earns approximately $120,000 annually while his wife works part-time as a flight attendant.
  • Monthly Income: The couple’s income fluctuates significantly; a recent month only brought in $8,677 against expenses of $11,764.
  • Spending Habits:
  • Frequent overspending, including a vacation funded through loans.
  • Notably high impulse purchases, reflected in their financial statements.

Key Issues Discussed

  • Emergency Fund Mismanagement: The couple dips into their emergency fund for non-emergency expenses such as vacations and impulse purchases.
  • Debt Accumulation: A significant amount of debt is present, including high-interest loans for vacations and credit cards.
  • Lack of Financial Goals: The couple lacks clear, combined long-term financial goals and instead focuses on immediate gratification.

Relationship Dynamics

  • Communication Barriers: There are evident communication issues in discussing financial matters. The wife tends to make spending decisions without consulting Garrett, leading to hidden debts and associated stress.
  • Spending Control: Garrett expresses disappointment over not being included in financial decisions, indicating he would prefer to have more influence over their spending habits.
  • Accountability: Caleb emphasizes the need for both partners to hold each other accountable for their financial decisions.

Recommendations from Caleb

  • Budgeting Education: Caleb recommends that they take budgeting and debt management courses to improve their financial literacy.
  • Debt Management Strategies: Emphasizes the importance of prioritizing debt repayment and creating a sustainable budget.
  • Behavioral Changes: Encourages the couple to reassess their spending habits, acknowledging the need for discipline to change their current trajectory.
  • Sell Unused Assets: Suggests selling their boat and eliminating unnecessary expenses to improve their financial situation.

Notable Quotes

  • "You guys are living in a champagne taste on a beer budget."
  • "Your actions do not indicate that you care about your financial future."

Key Takeaways

  • Financial Illiteracy: The couple is well aware of their financial issues but lacks the discipline to change their behaviors.
  • Emphasis on Communication: Open dialogue about finances is crucial in a relationship to prevent mismanagement and misunderstandings.
  • Future Planning: Establishing clear goals, such as saving for their children's education and reducing debt, is essential for financial health.

Conclusion This episode of "Financial Audit" highlights the importance of financial education, accountability in relationships, and the need for couples to work together towards achieving common financial goals. As Caleb guides the couple through their financial mess, it becomes evident that behavior modification and improved communication are critical for their future financial stability.

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0:00To watch episodes of Financial Audit a week earlier, check us out on YouTube.

0:30I'm 34 years old. My name is Garrett. I'm 36. We live in Houston, Texas. And this is Financial Audit. Thanks for coming over to Austin, guys. So what do we do for a living in Houston, Texas? We'll start with you. I'm a flight attendant on the weekends and I stay home with our two kids. During the weekdays. Correct. Okay. Well, okay. So very much part-time, I'm assuming. Yes, but I am full-time. Mama. Full-time mom. No, flight attendant. I'm full-time. Oh, you're getting. Okay. How many hours are you getting on those weekends? It's 72 for the month is what I get. Oh, okay. There are some times where she works during the week.

1:10Yeah. So how much are we making from this? Because your payroll is practically nothing. I make 50 for an hour, but I'm averaging like my months are like 50 to 70. Huh? A month. Huh? Hours? Yes. Oh, okay. Well, what hits your bank on an average month? $3 ,000. Okay, well, that was not reflected in this last month. We had$600. What was different?

1:42It should be more than$600. It didn't work as much this month. Why? Yeah. People not flying? I mean, no. I don't think I worked much. I don't work that much in the summer. It's kind of a choice. Isn't that when people travel? um yes but um but that's because the kids are home more because there's no school how old are the kids we have kids yeah how old are kids two and four two and four okay yes well why less in the summer i just don't think i worked much in the summer yeah yeah yeah why because she likes to take off okay but our spending seems to be maintained yes

2:25How much you guys think you spent in this last month? When really only his income came in How much you guys think you spent in this last month? 12 ,000 I'd say probably around there Pretty damn close, 11 ,764 But only 8 ,677 came in from your paycheck So how are we maintaining the same level of spending If we're not working? I'm confused We're just taking time off But we're continuing the same level of spending That doesn't make any sense we start uh dipping into our emergency fund towards the end of the month for what to cover some purchases that pop up a lot of uh purchases that pop up i.e what gave you that tan i.e going on vacation yeah that's an emergency we take from an emergency fund to go to islands and stuff it's an emergency no we that was planned out prior to um a lot of the last minute knickknacks or impulse spending that happen emergencies that'll be pulled out of our emergency i think i brought more in like in in august we don't have it was there a secret account we don't have no i i don't know why you don't have it unless i i don't really remember why i didn't work very much but it just seems off the number seems off that's what hit that's at least what hit okay what do you do for a living so i work in the oil and gas industry oh yes he's a texan okay oh cool what do you what do you make right around 120 wow that's great Okay, so that helps sustaining.

4:03We live in Houston, definitely energy town. Okay, what is your position? I'm kind of a drilling fluids specialist tech. I work in-house for one of the major offshore companies. So do you get down and dirty? I worked offshore for 10 years, and since we had kids, moved back, working in the office now. Okay, how long have you guys been married? we just celebrated six years oh very nice okay so a little different than most married couples on the show one you've been married a little longer a lot of people are kind of newlyweds on the show and two your guys's kids were within your marriage which is maybe the first time that's ever happened on this show um not that either way is bad or good i don't give a but it's interesting It shows that maybe you are a bit more planned.

5:00And the weird thing here is there is retirement here. That's the weird thing. But then there is so much that does not correlate with a couple that plans, especially if we're taking for an emergency fund for knickknacks. And one of you has a secret that the other doesn't know, and I don't know what the secret is. or who has it but one of you wants to tell it and what is it who has the secret who's the little secret you're the secret or yeah what's your little secret i mean it's

5:39i just like pulled from may like made another loan to cover a credit card so we could go on our trip oh my okay okay and i didn't tell him wait why doesn't he get to know that why are we doing that without his knowledge oh he thought you were pulling from an emergency phone not that that's even better but actually no you said the trip was p planned i was gonna tell him i just was but you didn't so i don't give a was you didn't well no i don't tell him huh i yeah i didn't tell him why because i mean i was going to but you didn't didn't want him to stress about our trip but now you're stressing about the trip even though the trip is already done because you've borrowed on it now you have to pay it off you borrow you open it you took out a loan what kind of loan uh uplift okay no no yeah no upstart was the loan i took for the card upstart yeah i took that out to pay off a credit card that was maxed out so that we could have spending on the card oh my that has nothing to do with that has nothing to do with the vacation well then what are you talking about you because that just contradicted your whole thing i'm confused too What are you saying?

6:49So, yeah, we did finance the vacation that we just took. From what? On what? It's like the pre-planned, like a firm, like one of those. It's called Uplift. So Uplift and Upstart. Yeah, I have both loans, an Upstart and Uplift. And which one did you know about? And which one did you not? Or neither? Why? Why? when when did you do this the last week of the month before our month september okay the last week of september yes you did this yes i got a loan out and paid off a credit card that was maxed out yeah why but like why because that just it's got my name too on it or is it No, it's just mine.

7:44It's just mine. Because it affects us both, and that is not really a good feeling to have that go behind my back, you know? Yeah. But. I didn't think you, I think you would understand why I did it, so I didn't figure you were going to be mad. Well. Understand why you did it. You did it for the vacation. Correct. And are you mad? Yeah. I don't say mad. I'm pretty disappointed. That's kind of a big thing. I thought we were low on funds during the month because we were taking out to pay for a trip instead of... How long do you guys go on these trips? Or how often do you guys go on these trips? Like twice a year.

8:33Can you afford that? I mean, obviously not if we're taking out debt to pay off a card and then another debt to pay for this trip that we can't pay for and then you think taking out for an emergency fund for knickknacks obviously not so why why are we doing these trips when we just we have young kids uh shouldn't we be getting care of and buttoned up for the sake of their future instead of going and seeing some palm trees it was for my birthday and my son because our birthday's together happy birthday you have one every year i don't give a so to see what probably not but probably not i don't regret it i don't regret the trip probably not are you saying you're dying terminal no you terminal with brain cancer is that why i was agreeing with you that like my son probably didn't care about the trip for our birthday well no none the four-year-old barely passed the age where he's gonna start remembering things other than that the two-year-old has no idea what the going on it's basically just a group of cells floating around in the universe can't form memories.

9:38Well, we have pictures from it. Well, that's good. As long as they don't go blind, they'll be able to know they went to a place with palm trees. It seems to be every year we've got a birthday trip. They're all in October. What, do you not agree with these? So why are we doing them? Wait, what are we doing then? I just plan it and he just goes on them. I don't agree with a lot of them. Why are we doing them then? And we just do it. Because I like to travel. Cool. But if he disagrees, why do you win? Win, win, win, win, win. Maybe because I'm controlling. I don't know. He just does whatever. Like, hey, I have a trip.

10:20He just packs his bag and he's like, okay, where are we going? Like, when we get to the airport, like, he doesn't know anything about the travel or the expenses. He just goes. And you're saying you don't like that. I don't prefer. I'd like to be at least consulted. Like, hey, let's take a trip. Okay. Do you guys have conversations about this? Or is this the first time? What are we doing? We've had this conversation multiple times. Why has nothing ever been addressed then? I feel like I could be sitting on that side with you talking to her about a lot of these financial issues. I'm not the only problem.

10:52I am saying I'm a huge problem, but I'm saying I'm not the only problem. I've never said I wasn't any problem. So, but I'm also, when we say pulling out of the emergency fund for things, I'm not the one that's pulling out for things. She's the one normally pulling out the emergency fund. So. I mean, I do have a spending problem. I know I do. Like, I know I'm out of control with spending. I'm confused. We talked about, before we started filming, you found this show through George Camel. you found george through dave you've been through a live event with dave you know he'd be against all of this dramatically you've been on that path of relative being surrounded by the knowledge of how to not be a dumb money and yet we are in still so like what you obviously just don't care the vacation is more important than any financial stability or any fixing or any change of behavior year right it has to be yeah it's gotta be yes because this is a daily watching financial videos and doing all this on earth i watch without any action i'm confused we we might have action for half of the month and the other half is let's go do whatever we want get a little fire under your butt for a moment and then then you're done yep why do you think it falls off because i impulse If I'm a spy and I regret it after, I can go to Target and spend$600 and then I can take it all home and regret all of it.

12:33Then return it. But I don't. Okay. So then I just am negative$600 for going to Target. And how much is this loan that you took out that he doesn't know? $6 ,000. almost what you bring in after taxes and everything on a monthly basis immediately a month has to go to that how much was this vacation you took out six thousand no the vacation was four thousand what kind of lifestyle are you guys living champagne taste on a beer budget it seems like uh kind of spend what we want to spend um what goals do we have for you guys for the kids where are we trying to be looking five years down the road 10 years down the road 20 years down the road what are we trying to do because right now we're just living for fun in the moment what are we trying to do do we have any combined goal i don't think we have a goals together i want a house in palm beach by 40 and i Are you going to be able to move?

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14:59Relay will have your business running smoother than ever. Avoiding the problems I ran into is easy with Relay by your side. So check out the link in the description and claim the$100 sign-up bonus today. Let's jump back into the episode. You guys are spending$3 ,000 more than came in on this last month. I understand. And I don't want... What the f*** are you talking about? Well, how much is a home in Palm Beach? Like$700 ,000. Too much? Like$700 ,000? Is that nothing? I think we can get a loan for it by$40 ,000. Okay. Well, I'm confused. Again, you're the one that watches the financial content on repeat.

15:35Are you there just for the entertainment and you don't walk away with anything? who no one would advise that that i know of i mean i have a problem i need to fix oh shut the up if you have a problem and you know you have a problem this isn't like it's not like you're an alcoholic here you know spending is out of control absolutely but you know this you acknowledge this but i don't change it i know and i'm asking why why have you done nothing why have you put no action behind this i need to know at least your own self-assessment i need to know as well i mean i've done charts like no spinning charts on the fridge i've put them up i've done like ringlets of our debt like little paper rings and hung it up like stupid little things decoration her house i've like i just don't follow through You said it really well earlier.

16:31She'll have fire for a while, and then it's on to the next thing, on to the next fad or on to the next let's do this or that. And for my side, I look at a lot of, okay, are our bills paid? We have roof overhead. Are we fed? Are our kids safe? Are we safe? Okay, whatever's left after that, I'll automatically put stuff into savings. um that we don't touch but after that i kind of um you put money into savings you don't put any money into savings into does not put any money into say into our 401k every oh okay that's i don't consider that savings aren't you guys are taking loans against your retirement accounts yes we have done that we have done that before yeah there's two so well it doesn't even matter if we're putting money into there, if we're just borrowing against it.

17:27Yeah. Why? What are we borrowing for? So we borrowed to buy our house. That was the second one. That was the down payment. Yeah, your 401k loan was to put down for our house, and they didn't even use it. But we took out to put down for the house, and they didn't even put it down for the house. They didn't even put down the$15 ,000 that we took out. They just they put down like 2000. I don't know why. What are you talking about? The people that sold us the house. You tell them where the money goes. You tell them where this goes to. So let's go to closing costs. Is that what you're saying? We didn't have any closing costs.

18:09Where'd the money go? It just stayed in our account and then we paid off his truck with it. I believe. I don't know. That was four years ago. I don't know. I don't know. I'm so lost. All right. Let's get into these finances. I want to see self-assess. Where do you guys think you are? I'm going to say 3, 2, 1, go. On go, I want you guys to give me what you think your household financial score is. Zero being the absolute worst, 10 being the absolute best. Where do you think you are? 3, 2, 1, 6. 4. What the f*** are you going to do? What is this delusion? You said zero being the worst. And 10 being the best.

18:47How do you think you're above a solid, like down the middle 5? you guys are barring against your 401k you just so your wife opened debt to pay for a vacation that you had to take for a birthday thing so what the we had a four or a six yeah um i guess it's because i i know that we can we can turn this around and get out of debt um but you're not yes and the score isn't a hope of what you could do it's what's happening okay well then i'll go back to a five i at least think we're we're better than than the average for sure well we'll see we'll see there is retirement but again we're borrowing against that that is what is going for you is the retirement but we're kind of negating it all right let's start looking at these stats if you want your hammer financial score it's free link in the description below and if you guys want to be on the show calebhammer.com slash apply all right delta sky miles great for all our vacations all right so on here we owe one thousand two hundred thirty dollars and fifteen cents the minimum payment of forty dollars this looks like it's interest free oh i don't know about interest free you paid off the last balance but you did immediately put another two thousand $132 on here.

20:09So what is this card? Who manages this card? Do we even know what's happening on this card? Explain this card. She kind of manages all of our financials for the most part. I'm so confused because you're complaining about the finances, but why then are you not involved? Why is she just doing it? Why is it just put upon her? Now, I am involved, but a lot of it is she really enjoys doing all these things and she gets so so caught up in all the the financial stuff and three thousand dollars went out more than came in last month yes so i'm confused for me like i kind of said earlier if making sure that our bills are paid and that are but roofs overhead one there's my focus there's a late fee in these statements oh there's probably a few so if our concern is that the bills are paid and the bill wasn't paid on time yeah why that's obviously the system's not working correct so what we've done nothing to address it to get more involved to have these open honest conversations sir you like doing it that's great you have fun with it wonderful i think it's a couple we probably need to sit down and go over our finances on a monthly basis i agree but why haven't you guys that's just what i'm trying to figure out from this whole conversation is okay we seem to at least know we know what's right but you guys haven't done anything regarding what is right and you're not able to give me a why other than i like spending yeah i don't i know it's um oh how are you guys ever gonna get anywhere if you can't just acknowledge any potential reason because if you don't have a reason that we can start focusing on how are we gonna address it and find a solution if we don't know why why haven't you been willing to get involved with the finances more or why haven't you been willing to allow him to be involved in the finances more whatever it is why we have done where we have monthly meetings and we'll go through all of our budget and this is what we're going to go through but it's been a long time but but the second we get you know through this budget and halfway through the month all of a sudden um something shiny will pop up and budget went out the window and it's not my my shiny that normally pops up i'm not innocent and by no means but she is the does his opinion of your shiny not matter yeah it does but the shiny just ends up being purchased and the budget's out the window so he normally lets me buy whatever i want to buy is this true yeah why don't you put your foot down i mean there needs to be accountability in this yeah on both sides i i think i'm just as guilty in all this because I'm allowing it to happen.

23:15You guys just enable each other. Yeah. Before we had... We were making good money and kind of did whatever we wanted. Since kids, things tightened up. We had way more debt before we had kids. We paid off some of the debt, kind of. That's been years ago. It's been years ago. We've grown. We've gained more debt other sides. But our total was a lot less before kids. I want to know what happens at the end of the month Once we've done the, okay, here's the beginning of the month. We sat down to figure out our budget. Okay, halfway through something shiny came up. We purchased it. What happens at the end of the month for the next meeting?

23:54She'll normally have to pick up work, and I'll have to stay home to help watch kids while she goes to work. Wait, so the conversation just becomes how do we go and pay for the shiny? It doesn't become what was the shiny? Was it worth it? and how do we prevent it from happening the next month? We have that conversation all the time. Because that's the conversation that matters more. Why isn't that what you told me? There's a lot of it speaking on deaf ears sometimes. It's like I will tell her, why do you need that? Why do we do this? What was the last shiny besides this vacation you guys just went on?

24:29What was the last shiny? I want to hear how this happened. I mean, I got Botox. Where? At the spa. It's like$600 or$800. Where's the Botox? What do you mean where? Where is it in your body? Oh, my forehead. Okay, so you're avoiding the permanent lines? Yes. Okay. How much was the shiny Botox? It was 600. Who cares if you get lines? Dude's already starting to get gray. Oh, no, it's not kind of. It's gray. It is a lot of gray. It's infected. Okay. But it's not just like Botox. You'll do... I think it's time to embrace. The dude's already growing old. you don't want to look like you're 20 when he's just like it's not just botox we'll do our we don't do our own no he asked you no stop he asked you what was your most expensive purchase no no no okay so the botox was the last shiny okay that i had okay i'm just i want to whoa i just want to figure out the situation around that because i just want to learn kind of what your life looked like around that um one that terrifies me i'm afraid um better than going bald yep it's staying in so i'm fine with it that's true that's fair uh okay so both times happen okay cool how much did it cost it was 600 did you just do it or did we talk about it before no conversation before okay then what happened afterwards because you probably told him at some point that it happened yeah how'd that conversation go she'll tell me hey i'm going to get this done with no monetary uh you know signal to it and just go do it and normally i'm like okay fine it's normally like when i'm busy or i've got a lot going on i just go okay cool and then after the fact when i look at our bank account i go well what what the hell happened i didn't know it was this much why do we do that well nope and i can't take it back they can't go in there and take you He'll pull it out and give the money back.

26:34So what are you going to do? A lot of it is after the fact, I will give her, I will not lecture, but we'll talk about why we did this and what went wrong. Well, you can normally just give me a slap on the wrist, and then we just go about our spending. Who typed that? Who typed that? Jake, if you're going to be a bully, say it into a mic like a man. I don't have a microphone. Why don't you come say this to them? bring it on come come say it come say it jake listen this is this is what i'm dealing with over here guys this is what i'm dealing with and i i am sorry garrett garrett i'm sorry but i said that you aged 15 years when you took the hat off oh yes what was the other thing i said the funny part oh uh that was actually lindsey she said hat fish you hat fish sus oh yeah hey i can leave it off and look Look like an old man.

27:30I hate his long hair. She always tries to get me to color my hair and stuff. Let it be. Oh, you're trying to keep them young. That's right. I try to get him to do Botox, too. He won't do it. No, I will not ever. I'm not. It's a waste of money. I'd be willing to do it in the armpits to prevent because I sweat a lot. Same. But again, that's. I don't know. I'd rather spend the money on something else than. I'm just so after that like I'm just did we decide that okay maybe this is not happening again then sometimes that's said and then there will be a couple of month period in between and all of a sudden we pick back up doing things like we'll do cleanses or we need to you know redecorate this area of the house or that area of the house.

28:28We need to buy this or that. So you guys are not able to have adequate conversations that are able to hold ground and then keep each other accountable throughout. That is, I think, what is very clear here. It's like we can have a conversation and we can be like, oh, okay, that sucks. It won't happen again. But it always happens again. But you also fail to hold her accountable and you fail to hold yourself accountable because swiping is more important. What if we didn't have this strong income over here? What would you be doing? I guess I'd be working more. I would work more, but I have to be home with the kids.

29:03Yeah. We have no family in Houston, so it's just us. But even then, what we bring in shouldn't have to need family in Houston for you to work. You don't have to work at all from what I bring in. No, okay, so he got two times a month. Wait, he what? He golfs. He's in a golf league. Oh, okay. So like on Sundays. So it messes up with me trying to work. So I have to like not work because of his golf because we don't have anybody to watch the kids. Or if I can't find anybody. Is that true? We have no one to watch the kids? We'll get a babysitter. It's hard on Sundays to find somebody. We struggle finding people to watch the kids.

29:42Or I'm just like don't want to spend the extra money to have somebody watch them. So I'm just like, well, I'll just stay home and not go to work. because he has golf. Whether you're working or not, with my income, we don't need, you don't have to work at all. Yeah, but I like to spend, so we do need. But that's the part we need to work on is the spending. That's, yes, I agree. I mean, he just, what he just said was 100 % right. But you know this, again, you're in the circles. I'm so confused. Yeah, I do know it. I don't know why I don't apply it. It's because you prefer the spending over the over the i have a problem i know i have a problem but it's but your lack of addressing it clearly you enjoy the problem more than any benefit that'll come from applying any solution i mean you do you prefer the instant gratification more than any okay i'm gonna keep going through this guys for a few weeks only my new debt mastery class is 35 off plus the first 500 that sign up we'll get access to a private live stream where I break down how I got out of every single cent of bad debt and how I now use good debt to my advantage.

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31:31Target, who knows? You know, it could be anything. Sonic driving, going to the gas station, getting some bullsh**. Chick-fil-A, Tiff's Treats, Tiff Treats, not even good anymore uh chick chick-fil-a shipley's donuts some museum chick-fil-a went inside got some bs from a gas station magnolia and a lot of financed flights miami that was for our trip so yeah why can't you get a hotel in the oh where you want a second house west palm is it gonna be a beach house not on the beach then it doesn't matter get a hotel whenever you want to go then right right or else why why do you need a home there oh we don't we don't need a home there i don't want to have another home over there but she's adamant on having another home have you ever won any of these purchase conversations i'm probably gonna kick him out of the house if he wins a purchase conversation that's false that is so false like no like we have these conversations and i will make a great point and i will i could tell you that this this desk is brown and there'll be a but no it's it's really green or black what i'm trying to figure out is just i mean there's just no consequences you just you win and that's it i mean the consequences are now you guys have to pay off your debt and you know goals for the kids and everything are put off actually I hope my breath doesn't stink I'm on I'm taking Paxlovid right now so I can get over this quicker and it's making my tongue like it automatically makes your tongue taste like absolute death but I don't know if that translates or if it's mental like I don't know if it's a real taste or if it's fake I can't smell anything over here Well, that's good because it tastes like a battery has opened on my mouth, and it's really disgusting.

33:31And you can't get rid of it. It's so bad. Okay. We kind of talked about her financial – like my financial goal for our future, setting up for our kids and putting – being able to get them through college where we kind of – her goal is to get a house in Florida. what why it's west pop beach but why it's florida hotel and it is florida i mean my dad says that like the sand just eats the houses away so that's just stupid but yeah i just want a house in florida but why i i don't know you don't have an answer to anything i just have a goal so that's my goal like why is that the goal versus like paying for kids college i think it's because she gets all these ideas and from from watching all this content and stuff and going well we're budgeting if we pay all this off we'll you're not paying anything but we're not and there's where she gets these ideas like oh so now my goal can instead of having short goals to get to the big one she goes straight to the big one and forgets that oh we didn't meet this short goal we didn't meet this next one who else you'll watch i want to make sure you're not watching like some finance person that's just like go buy my house is like okay i know you watch dave you watch george you watch this what else do you watch i watch the iced coffee house yeah house yeah they i mean they're also not in support of what you're doing so i'm confused like who else there has to be someone you're watching it's like corrupting no no you're watching everyone that does the most do it right and then we do this.

35:14No, I've gone to the studio and I felt like so, like when I went to like Nashville and watched the show live. Oh, okay, Dave's yeah. Yeah, I left and I felt just like disgusted with Yeah. Well, we, makes two of us. Wait, is this conversation even going to be helpful? I mean you went there. I don't, like, that was like four years ago and this is where we are four years later so yeah obviously we can't pay off our debt just like i i i don't know if i have the energy for this uh to like i want to figure your out but it's like at the same time i am running at 50 i'll be honest um and i'm just like you obviously don't give a one does what do we do when 50 of the relationship cares are you saying that he cares from this conversation it's at least you haven't at least suggested that he doesn't he just is not like like you said he doesn't hold me accountable he's he's not doing yeah i'm not sitting there looking at all of our budget i'm just making sure that we are trying to reach some goals what can he do to hold you accountable though so he'll have the conversation right and we're not gonna have him take a baseball bat and slam your head in if you don't do it.

36:36So, like, what can he do? He's not going to kick you out. Okay. But obviously, you know. I mean, like, every day. You spend so much money on Botox. Why ruin it with a bat? I have to refix it. Freaking. We would have to. What can he do that would actually, I mean, take cards away from you like you're a child? Like, what can we do for you? Like, at a certain point, you do have to be a 30, what, four-year-old adult. it's that or do we have to treat you like an infant and not have the ability to spend $214 in a single month on Chick-fil-a yeah i do like my Chick-fil-a apparently well my kids more than your yeah yeah well i would like them they'll like you whatever whatever you put in front of them like it doesn't have to be Chick-fil-a okay i'm not the only one that spins though he spins on And all the statements that you get that are gas station, it's all him.

37:34I do not spend anything at gas stations. What are you getting at the gas station? I'm like tobacco, dip. Snacks. Snacks. It's always snacks. Why haven't you upgraded to the zen life? Not that I support that either, but at least it's not cancer causing, as far as we know. As far as we know. Okay, but we know the one you have is cancer causing. like those you want to be around for the kid yeah okay maybe we don't do cancer intentionally that i understand and you're good with that if it was just for the cancer part but if it's the financial side of it uh-huh it is expensive it is expensive expensive habit even getting more expensive oh and i i know it's getting more expensive and i know you want to lock in for the oil but i i've cut back quite a bit on what does that look like going from can and a half to two cans a day to one or one every three three days now okay three to four days instead of one a day how long has this habit been since i was probably 14 oh man yeah man working in oil with his dip in his truck living in houston dexish yeah you're living living up that stereotype um where are you on the desire to quit this don't really have any desire to why he's addicted to it uh-huh but a lot of people that are addicted do have a desire to quit even if they're not quitting why don't you have a desire i mean what about your kids like they'll see you doing this they're very impressionable like they'll they'll want to you started at 14 what if your kids start at 14 it's not just expensive but it's leading to higher i mean you're you could lose a part of your your one you could get the zen thing where you're like for the rest of your life you know yeah like looking dumb and then or you could just you know have to have gum surgery at some point because the dip and it's disgusting let's be honest yeah nasty i looks gross smells gross they're not on our own baseball field and even before no one watches that sport anyway now so i'd be willing to to try to get stop i've tried before in the past but this is the dude you gotta make out with kids but i was always like you need to stop before we have kids and so he's like okay and then we had like kissing a dude that has tobacco all up in there?

40:07I mean, it's the pouches, so it's a little different than just like the... He has chew today. Yeah. I mean, his breath definitely stinks from it. I'm not going to lie. It depends on which day. Yeah, it's bad. And I need to quit. You're right. Will you? I will try. Easier said than done, I know. I've tried. I've done even going offshore where I'm out there for two weeks and know that I'm going to run out, I intentionally stop. So I'll try to quit. And the second I get back home, I start it up. It's a tough thing to stop. But I'm... I will try to cut that little part of our budget spending out. It's okay.

40:55We all get together and we boof alcohol after each show to celebrate. So we're not that much better. I don't drink that much. So yeah, we don't, I'm just spending it on tobacco. Yeah. Do I taste gross? Okay. And then what is this? So we have a 6 ,000 hour loan here at the 25.07 % interest rate. Holy. This is this, this is 6 ,000. Is this one? Is this a special secret loan? Yes. So a lot of your loans are kind of 0 % interest, but the secret loan she's taken out at 25.07 % interest, right? Not beating this in the market. Yeah. But if you think about the card that I put the money on the interest rate, we would get, It's like a charge of like a hundred.

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41:34So this was the one that paid off the card? Yeah. It didn't pay it off fully. Oh, for fuck's sake. What card was it? It was my Royal Caribbean card. What? Royal Caribbean? Do we go on debts? Or do we go on vacations that aren't debt funded? Because this did pay off a different vacation, essentially. I don't know. Okay, then we're not going on vacation. Year 2025 is the year without vacations. Love it. You live in the shitty city in Texas. Sorry, but you're going to have to stay there a little longer without going anywhere else. You got the armpit. You love Florida. You live in the Florida of Texas.

42:14So just without the nice beaches. But you get the humidity. I mean, I already booked a 2025 vacation. Cancel it. Get a refund. I'm sure you selected the insurance thing. You'd be like, family death. Trust me. everyone in the world that applies on this show all of a sudden has a family death they come up a lot I'm saying that's the excuse that everyone makes oh I know I'm all for canceling these trips I don't want to cancel it I don't want this to be 2v1 I feel bad but come on I feel like I should be sitting next to you because I have these same conversations a lot like why do we do this hold on Mr.

43:00Dip man i don't want that garbage next to me

43:07but come on well do we have to do i have to treat you like is what we have to do is treat you like an infant to get you like is it that you have no access to spending money anymore because i don't want to cancel the vacation that's not in the game what do for paying for our kids college where are we we put do you want to yes okay where are we then i mean we started their 25 29 plans how much but we only put we only put 25 a month okay that's a joke so we care about this vacation more than our kids college you do your actions are saying you do okay you want to tell them that at 18 i cared about a vacation when you were three and five at that time more no i don't i don't want to have to tell them that well that's what you're gonna have to tell them because it's gonna be your fault all right guys i get it you need more financial audit So we've decided now in our membership below, you get two exclusives.

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46:25It's not that hard. I can cancel this. I don't know what to do here. I don't know what to do. I don't have the energy for this, dude. I don't have the energy for this, man. I'm at like 50%, and I can't even get you to say you'll cancel a vacation. I will cancel it I don't know What even is this debt so I can just label it It's upstart I hope there's something to yell at you about Because I do feel bad but come on That's the most childish thing And you're taking out debt Without him even knowing What's the minimum monthly payment on this thing 159 Congratulations you have a$159 Minimum monthly payment That you have to take care of now with your income because you only brought in a few hundred bucks.

47:17All right. Pottery barn card? We have a pottery barn card. I've never even heard of that. Yep. What are we doing? Better have been some great pots. Well, I went to some friends' houses. I saw their house and I was like... We redecorated. Yeah, we did. We got new coffee tables. Cash flow. You guys make money. people to come over in our house not be not decorated cool no no do it cash flow you guys make money i know but why do we have to go into debt for it we don't have to buy the most expensive thing either when we do it here we go i did buy so part of that party barn was that uh did i get a desk from that one no no i thought i got a desk from party i don't know but there was a past doofy you eventually made it up but there was a past do fee yeah so we're not even responsible enough to pay it off and you're the one in control of the finances i just forgot about it it wasn't on autopay didn't forget to get botox no i didn't forget to do that well we forgot to make a monthly payment i called them and told them hey i forgot to make it like you can look at my you know account and see that i history yeah and see that i've paid it every since so they waived it okay promotional balance through essentially right now actually some of it just ended some of it ended a couple weeks ago and some of it's ending in a week from now and so interest is going to start 32.24 interest is going to start on this holy but the balance is only like four hundred dollars they paid off yeah then pay exactly i'm okay i i'm going to i plan on it but But I don't think so because, again, 3 ,000 hours was spent more than brought in.

48:59I know, but I always make, like, I don't have missed payments on. I know I did. I told you it was not on auto pay and I forgot about it. And I was like, crap. So, yeah, I did miss the payment. But, like, my normal routine is not missing payments. What's normal? This is normal. This is the month that you live. This is normal. Yeah, I guess so. Okay. Okay, here's Uplift. So, not Upstart, but here's the other secret loan, right? Yeah, this is for our trip that we just took. Great. That trip is at 20 % interest. Yeah. Not good. Awesome. So again, as I always say, I opened my brokerage, Moo Moo, and I'm getting in the S &P 500.

49:40You know all about it. You've watched Graham. He talks about index funds like someone addicted to them. Wonderful. You know that you're probably getting 8 % to 12 % a year, up and down years combined on them. this is double i mean this is double so it doesn't even matter it's like what do we do i just don't understand i mean i mean first of all no birthday of yours even matters until you're 59 and a half at this point you're not getting any no birthday is different i'm about to join the 30 club nothing matters anymore no birthday matters anymore just like taking trips on our birthday but we don't have to like we can if it's all we need to build memories out and so we can build memories at the house i don't think we took one last year good because you're not taking one this next year or the year after not last year on your birthday but we still took one in october on our daughters oh yeah we did go to disneyland yeah and she does not remember it she will not remember i know no but it's like it's a tradition we took our son but it's a tradition that we don't need to have.

50:47It's a tradition you just started. They're barely alive. They were just birds. Tradition. This isn't some historic tradition from the 1700s. Well, it was her first birthday last year, so a first is like a milestone. So it's not even a tradition. It's because you wanted to do it. It's not for her. It's for you. Guys, I don't know what to do here. If that's the way you want to do it, that's fine. But we don't need to do these. We need to pause until we get all this stuff done. I don't know what to do here. I don't know what to do here, guys. I feel like, and I don't even want to, I'm not even, I don't want to even necessarily just be on your side and say you're doing well, because I don't know.

51:27We haven't gotten through all this. But it really feels like half of us wants to at least do okay, and the other half doesn't give a fuck. I do care. But no, you don't. Your actions do not indicate that whatsoever. You might have a part of you that cares, but you're wanting of going to Disney as a first time tradition outweighs it botox outweighs it chick-fil-a outweighs it a new home in west palm beach outweighs it so it can get destroyed in a hurricane outweighs it so yeah you might care but all the care for the fun and enjoyment the instant gratification is what you care about more so$3 ,143 is owed on here with$160 for your monthly payment 20 % interest ok Apple card$3 ,000 it's mine I'm shocked I'm shocked to learn this what did you get?

52:27I have no idea what did we get? we opened that card she needed a new laptop her laptop was fried It had been a long time. Got her a new laptop. I got a bonus. We knew it was coming. We paid off that Apple card. Yes. We paid it off. And then all of a sudden. I charged. It's got a balance again. I don't know what I thought. I don't know what I thought. Are you kidding me? Open up your damn app for me then. Open up your app. I don't think I can. What? Because I haven't. It's been charged maxed out since like April. Okay. So I don't know how to go look. Open up your wallet app. It's in your wallet.

53:11Okay. Oh, good. Do you not even know how to access it? No, I do. I just thought the statements. I can look back. I have that magical ability of clicking a few buttons. Transactions. Okay. No, let me look. Hand it over. Ah, crumble. So we have upgraded from the tips treats. Yeah, that place is pretty good. Posh Mart. Okay, well, you're just, I mean, you're still, I mean, LLC. That's for a conference that he's going to. Oh, yeah. A Christian conference in Dallas next weekend. Okay. You can kind of go to those for free on Sundays. I don't think we need to be spending money. There's a conference that happens.

54:00Most of those religious places. Yep. Hmm. Yeah. posh mart great american airlines so man i was gonna i was thinking dry bar panero bread h &m i was a dry bar church so let me we're come on what is what what that's like the cafeteria or like the cafe pack of lunch chick-fil-a chick-fil-a you go to that cafeteria every second of your life olive garden okay i thought it was gonna be a big purchase that got us up fleet feet uh european wax center gotta get waxed for church uh lift door dash papa j carnival there it is there's some hundred six hundred dollars there target 280 dollars yeah we took a cruise for spring break and then i see the payment that likely came from the bonus all the way back in february yep gosh and then from there it was just a bunch of little You know what happened immediately after that?

55:03Vineyards, Vine,$607. Yeah, we went to the outlet mall, and then I got a little crazy. We didn't go to the outlet mall. You went to the outlet mall. He stayed in the car, and then he's like, why are you taking so long? And then I charged like however much,$600. Yeah. But it was all on sale. If you're going to spend something like that, call me before you do it, and I could probably talk you out of it in that moment. The thing is, I know you guys know how to do stuff. I want you guys to go through our budgeting class together. I want you to go through our investing class together. I want you guys to go through our debt class together.

55:36So you know the best ways to get out of debt and the best ways to utilize that. I want you guys to go through that. Take the educations. You guys get them for free for being on here. But again, it's like just like our audience can go through them. That's just a part of it. It's like me going through math class, you know. I get the education, but if I'm not internalizing it, if I'm not putting anything into practice, it doesn't matter. You know, if I'm just going through it to be able to take the test and ace, it doesn't matter. You know, if I'm not learning the life skills. And that's what concerns me is you guys can talk about what is right, but you don't do anything.

56:11And that's just what concerns me here, guys. And that's why I'm almost defeated in this conversation. Yes, okay, sure, I'm not feeling great, so I'm a little low energy. Okay, great. But also, it's just like you guys already know what to do and you're just not doing it. And what can I do to make that different? A lot of times that is most effective on this show is people... Hi, I'm here to pick up my son Milo. There's no Milo here. Who picked up my son from school? Streaming only on Peacock. I'm going to need the name of everyone that could have a connection. You don't understand. It was just the five of us.

56:45So this was all planned. What are you going to do? I will do whatever it takes to get my son back. I honestly didn't see this coming. These nice people killing each other. All her fault. A new series streaming now, only on Peacock. People come in, they think their situation is better than it is, and I give them a wake-up call, and I can connect them with resources. Because I already know what to do, and you're just not doing it. And I can't force you guys to do it. That's something you're going to have to, something's going to have to happen, a rock bottom, or who knows. That's just going to have to be like, oh, now I care more about this than doing all the fun.

57:20I really think that you telling her a lot of this, because I can tell her something and then two seconds later someone else will tell her and she'll say oh someone just told me the answer to this question when I already gave it to you. Yeah but also you've been following all the so all the finance stuff. I guess I just watch it for entertainment and I don't apply. Guys on care credit we owe$8 ,423. What is this even for? I got my rope done. but it was like 14 ,000 why it's 14 ,000 for the yeah yep was this a requirement was this for you was it pressured no I just wanted to get it done in the springtime before summer uh huh yes so like March okay i mean i for self-confidence sure and again i don't really give a you guys spend your money on if you budget it and just but you're putting it on debt it's just finance you have finance you're financed when you're okay with telling people that yeah i want you to go ahead and walk around on church on sunday and go up to the pastor and be like yo these they're financed guy No, that's...

58:48I want you to walk around the cafeteria there and be like, Financed. These are financed. They're not all natural from up there. These are financed. Well, I didn't get implants. I just did a lift after breastfeeding my kids. This lift is financed, guys. The kids brought them down. This dad brought them up. Okay. Yep. We had a conversation before. You were in full agreement of me doing this. I'm sure he enjoys them. Either way, I was happy. I didn't care. You didn't need to do this. I didn't ask you to do this. This was your decision. Listen, saggy lift. All I care is their finance. You ever feel like you're just burning money on car insurance?

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1:00:13So if you're tired of getting burned by fees, click the link in the description to check out money.com and compare car insurance options. Stop paying more than you have to. It's super easy and you could bump up your monthly savings rate. That's a win-win. This is a paid endorsement sponsored by money.com, which is compensated by its marketing partners. Again, if you cash flowed on this, I wouldn't give a f***. Do whatever you want. Go to Brazil. Get that BBL. Do whatever. I don't care. You know? But that takes longer to cash flow it. Well, no. But now you're paying for it. you guys have I mean yeah what the am I supposed to do with that you know that statement is incorrect in this conversation you've watched the show and this is why I am just borderline so close to just being done I'm just so close to just being done guys it's like what do I even do with that what's the minimum payment on the apple cart I didn't get it$80 okay you have to pay this off and the interest starts accruing a year from now.

1:01:15Get her back. Get a d*** on debt.

1:01:21Harbor Freight. What is this for? This has man written all over it. We got a generator after the hurricane. You know what? I don't want to be on his side, but that is what that purchase makes more sense than everything we've talked about so far. because I'm getting a generator too. My power goes out like crazy. I don't know why. It's obnoxious. But again, also we could have cash flowed it. I think we just wanted it right then. So we're like, let's just charge it and then we'll just pay it off. I mean, that's why we did it. But why didn't you pay it off then? Because other things came up. And so that got the back burner.

1:02:00What came up? The vacation? Well, I mean, we were in a wedding and so like other expenses. and then I flew out to LA to get my hair done. What the f*** are you talking about? No one can do hair in Houston. Not really. Okay, that's bulls***. She flew her guy that she's gone seeing forever, that she's from Oklahoma originally, moved to LA, so because she's able to fly and she went out there. Get connections. Just ask people. listen you have next door written all over you ask people on that app what their favorite hairdo person is okay it was like i was in a wedding so i really wanted to go out and see him and have him do my hair so i flew out and saw him that's an expensive hair yeah i was like 700 with tip plus the travel well no the travel all of it was free yeah i just hopped on a flight you flew there and back in the same day.

1:02:58Yeah, I flew to Burbank and then I flew home. No food? No. Some coffee. That's still, even still, that's expensive haircut. It was color too, I think. Yeah. She only got her hair colored. So it took all day. It was, it's a lot for hair. I splurged for a wedding that I was in. I need you to get me over the fear of flying. I recruit you on that mission. Oh, we can do that. Because I want to travel. I want to be able to see things. I mean you're safer in an airplane than a car that's not my fear it's being stuck in a place I can't get out of I don't care about being in the sky well if you take enough then you'll be fine you don't have to do some kind of medication to get over that fear yeah I would like to just be able to do it and enjoy it what is the memorial Herman my delivery with my first baby but again we've just paid the minimum on it we just have been paying but I know you guys can afford you guys make good money this is a thousand bucks $30.44 a month payment I mean I've called them multiple times and said hey I want to pay in full can you give me 20 % off can you give me a discount and they're like no so then I'm like well then screw it either way it's just one of many things that you could but that's not like I'm freaking I'm not like freaking out about that okay and then what is this$3 ,000 Celtic Bank oh a firm it's a firm oh I got a water machine a water machine this stupid thing I didn't even ask him it's a water filter I'm not surprised that you haven't asked him for like half this bullshit so I just I was kind of pressured my dad was getting one or he's a distributor so he like sells them and then he was like you need to get one right now and I was like well dad let me just wait until like you know end of the year like first of the year dad he got a sale out of you it's kind of gross well no I got a discount because they're like$6 ,000 so they gave it to me for like three and I'm sure three is closer to the real price okay but that's what that is a water system and I love it why?

1:05:19What what it just filters the water It's like you're it's It cures cancer like It's the best water you have What does it actually do That's a bold statement No wait like it's seriously What does it do It's just like It's ionizer So you can pick which level of alkalinity Or acidic water you want So it's like you know like when you drink like PH10 water like you know smart water Like different pHs Send it through a f***ing reddit. I don't care. Drink it out of the hose. We didn't need that thing. Okay, and then home. What is your home worth now, guys? Do we know? 408. Okay. So you have a great equity position.

1:06:01You owe$264 ,824 on it. Lower than 3 % interest. It's incredible. So that's fantastic. There's nothing to complain about here. $2 ,412 a month. Okay. bank of america card some purchases on here interest charge 167 dollars yeah that's my rural caribbean card huh oh you so this is the one wait but it's at its limit yeah so it was maxed out then i got the so then i got the loan the 6 000 and this is where i'm against this is where i'm against credit consolidation for people who don't fix their behavior first because this it's like i know so like yeah you just put it back up and then you're in more death than you were it just gives you the ability to not figure it out i mean i guess you should just give me a pacifier since i'm an infant listen i'm just i'm just i'm confused like i actually don't know what do we do other than take it away or you change it but you're not so i i don't know right i mean what would you say what would your solution here be you've tried it all you say you're at six thousand nine hundred three dollars on here that's why i got the loan because the interest is like 167 but you brought it all the way back up again yeah okay great with a 234 dollar minimum monthly payment 99 of purchases great 167 of interest takes 23 years to pay off the way you're doing it well actually that's without any purchases uh a firm great so we're a we're paying for an affirm payment on another debt so we're We're affirming and affirm.

1:07:53Wonderful. And then Shop Flav City. A thousand dollars in interest this year so far on here. A thousand dollars. Great. It's like a 1 % tax from your guys' take home on a yearly basis. 1 % immediately just gone just because you refuse to be responsible with money. Okay. Two 401k loans. The mid one at$1 ,183. And then the chunky one screams fresh all over it at$15 ,000. Did we just do that? What was that for? To pay off personal loans that I paid off credit cards with. So I'm basically moving money down the road. So what would your solution be? My question is still there. What would your solution be?

1:08:45Because obviously. Cancel the accounts. Like I need to call my roller curbing card and like calling. Are you sure you wouldn't just immediately put this all on debit though? Would your spending even change? But debit's cash. Yes, but you're taking away your ability to put it on credit. Yes, that helps. Okay, but you haven't fixed your behavior again. So you'd still be spending the money. How do I fix my behavior? That comes down to you. That is the discipline of maybe you need to check your budget on a weekly basis and make sure you're holding yourself accountable. I'm just like how do we hold you accountable that's because what I'm figuring out there's no consequences to your actions because all you guys are disagreeing and then you're lovey-dovey again and nothing ever matters not that I want you guys to fight or blow up or anything like that that's not what I'm saying either

1:09:34it's just like I don't know you're not facing any consequences for your actions I'm really trying to think and my brain's not at 100 right now I mean closing the account I feel like that prevents you from spending. But then I like delete apps. I delete my Instagram. Like I'll delete Amazon apps, delete the target app. Like for something shiny on Instagram or like, Oh, we need to do this or that. So it pauses pausing. It does help, but we've, we've really got to tackle the spending problem, not the where it comes from. It's just spending savings account. Basically nothing. 504 bucks in there. 576 in this fidelity account.

1:10:11What is this? We have, We both opened up IRAs with Fidelity. Yeah. Okay. College savings,$1 ,300. And then$400 for the other. This one was the great one. Is this your 401k? Probably. At$289 ,000? That's great, but we're borrowing against it. How many years ago did we borrow against it? It's been a while. Well, it was for the house. It's for the house. Yeah, but then you just did another. Yeah, I did mine. That was on her That's on my retirement Oh this one the$64 ,000 Mine should be paid off This is what sucks Compared to a lot of people that come on this show You guys have a halfway decent retirement But you're f***ing up with everything else And we're not on the same page If we're going to pull out from our 401k Why would you pull out though?

1:11:07Isn't it smarter to do the loan than Potentially but again you're not changing your behavior for you're just kicking cans on the road i would have rather you just not get you shouldn't have gotten in the first place we just pay off for personal loan then after you get a home in west palm beach which i don't even what's special about west palm beach nothing then you're gonna want to get a third home somewhere else you you don't you're not you guys can you guys have money where you could have such a nice retirement and you guys potentially could get a second home at some point but even without a second home you guys could actually be living really good vacation lifestyle styles uh but you're just throwing it all away right now yep on fast food and you eat most of the fast food like besides the chick-fil-a like yes i only like like to eat chick-fil-a but the taco bell i will not eat there that's his charges like all the other expenses that are food is yours i i and i am not backing down from that i'm all about your miscellaneous bull that could be things like video games it could be anything it was a thousand dollars or ten percent of your spending But again, of the percent of your spending, you did spend$3 ,000 more than came in.

1:12:15Going out to eat was$1 ,143, so 9.7 % of your spending. Subscriptions, 0.3%. Savings, 0.6%. Great. I'm always wanting him to add to savings, but I'm the only one that adds to savings. I put like$300 in our savings every check. You guys could be doing something for me. I don't know. Okay, let me get some of your living expenses. I mean, this should be a relatively easy thing. The thing is, it's just changing your behavior. And I don't know. You've been trying to do that since forever. And I don't know. What's your phone, Bill? 174. Do you own the phones? Yes. Gosh, you don't listen to anything that you watch.

1:13:02Hopefully, the other version of you out there that's watching this for entertainment actually learns something and decides to fix their life this time. Car insurance. I know you guys own your cars right now, but car insurance is how much? $109. That's not bad. Gas, room, room, drive, drive. $200. Across both? Yep.

1:13:25Mortgage is$2 ,412. And utilities altogether, how much? $250 for electric and then water is like$150. Let me get your debt minimum payments. Besides the mortgage.

1:13:42This is insane. It's over half what you guys put towards your mortgage. You're just paying towards pacifications. $1 ,403. And that's not even including the 401k loans because that gets taken out before you get paid. Okay. Internet? 110. Jeez, what do you guys have? AT &T. We upped it, though, to have it faster and it's not faster. But they told us it would be. It is faster for wired connections, not for your Wi-Fi. Google Fiber is like$50 for a gig up and down. I'm confused. I don't know. We've got fiber optic over at AT &T. AT &T is what our area. So that's what we've got. Okay, groceries. We should be able to do.

1:14:30Groceries that fluctuates on what kind of health care are we on? $800. I think you can do that. Meal plan, meal prep. Okay. TP fund. Anything else you need to survive? And this is for extra things for the kids as well. $250. Medical co-pays. Anything we need to do on a monthly basis? His medicine is like$75. $75? Yeah. Okay. And gyms? $87 a month. You're probably canceling your golf thing for a moment. I was getting a trainer for a while. It was like 50 bucks a session.

1:15:12Subscriptions note. Do you guys have pets? No. No pets. Anything else that needs to be in your budget that I'm not taking into account yet? We have home security. We pay that. How much? $48 a month. And then we have a boat storage. We have boat storage. Oh, good. Wait, one second. Yeah. One second. How much was your water again? $150. Okay. How much was the home security? $48. How often do you use this boat? We haven't in quite some time. We've talked about selling it. Sell it. Get rid of the storage. Oh, yeah. We're totally fine with that. Just haven't had a chance to do it. How much do you think you could sell it for?

1:15:55Low end. Low end? Low end. $15 ,000. There you go. Sell it, please. I don't care if you're taking a big loss out I'm fine with selling it we've already kind of put that out there we're going to do it anything else you need to survive? no okay 6 ,068 to survive minimum I mean if what you're saying is true I'm going to just bring in a thousand for you actually but 9 ,677 comes I mean this is so easy this is literally just fixing your bullshit I'll even give you I'm giving you$400 for fun. So go ahead and throw that in. I can rarely do that. I'm giving you guys$500 for fun. Well, wait. Because in November, we have HOA for the next year.

1:16:38So that's like$800. Okay, HOA, you have to pay all up front? I mean, it's due January for the next year, January of 2025. So we'll get it in November. It'll be like$800 you need to pay. Okay, okay. And then the kids have their - Well, hold on. Just set that aside. $800. Okay. Okay, so we're adding 66. We could slowly save and put that aside. Yeah, 67 hours a month. And then dump it off in one spot. What's the kid thing? So 67 hours a month for the HOA. Their program's$625 a month. Hold on. $625? What are they doing? They go to Mother's Day out twice a week. Huh? It's like daycare. It's called Mother's Day out.

1:17:16It's a daycare twice a week. Why? You're at home. Just to have social interaction with other kids. Okay, take them to the f***ing park. Or just find something cheaper. There's other things. Go do it with them during the day. You're at home. We're canceling that because it just doesn't make sense now. If it was daycare so you're working and stuff, that's different. But this is just like go to programs that are cheaper. You do not need to be doing this. Correct. It's canceled. I'm giving you$500 a month for fun that can be included for the kids. Taking the kids, doing things, okay? Okay. And having social interaction.

1:17:50and, you know, maybe a, I guess a T-ball starting soon for one of them probably. I don't know. There you go. There's their little interaction. So with that, 9, 6, 7, 7 minus 500 minus 6 ,068 and then minus 67 that you're saving for HOA. You have an extra$3 ,000 a month. Oh, no. What do we do? We spend it. Nope, not anymore. I gave you$500 for fun. I'm saying in the past we spent it. You guys are fucking kidding me. This is just so easy. And this is what concerns me. Again, it's just like... We can figure this out. It's just all about you got to keep each other accountable. Maybe do couples therapy, but...

1:18:38I mean, we do do therapy. Do therapy harder. Or find a different therapist. $49 ,185 of debt. um how much is it 49 185 dollars a debt i mean

1:19:00barely over a year it's a year and a quarter and you guys are debt free it's the easiest thing that's ever been on the show get an emergency fund call it a year and a year and nine months be conservative say two years but that's the easy it's so easier than everyone else on this show you guys are in so much privilege you have no idea literally requires the most basic sacrifice i'm done this is just so easy just do it or don't decide to live a great life or don't that's your choice and at that point like i don't give a this hasn't been put upon you this is your choice this is your choice you have the easiest way out of this than almost anyone that's been on the show and if you choose not to i have no sympathy because that is your choice but you guys can live an incredible life and that's up to you and i'm done spending budget you overspend zero out 10 debt there's no collections or anything like that the debt's pretty bad again for your situation numbers wise and the worst in the world you just have to take care of it three out of 10 emergency fund one out of 10 because we barely have anything started retirement okay for your age for your income that's the thing that's going to be holding us back what do you want to do i'm going to give you a solid the 401k loans are going to go against you six out of ten there real estate owner home great equity position, great mortgage, great rate.

1:20:12I'm going to give you an eight out of 10.

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