Ken Coleman & George Kamel answer your questions and discuss:
- Investing at a young age to take advantage of compound interest,
- from the blog: How Teens Can Become Millionaires,
- "Our investments keep losing money... what should we do?"
- from the blog: How to Avoid Costly Mistakes When the Market Is Down,
- Putting your financial "oxygen mask" on first before saving for the kids,
- "How should I pay taxes that I owe?"
- Saving for a home repair while expecting a baby.
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wide, ranging solutions broadcasting from apart moving and store student. This is the rams issue. We help you with your wise citizens. Money is really your money, your work and your relationships that are tied to the money. What should one aims?
common and joined by my colleague fellow rangy personality. George camel we're here for you, the sour, the phone numbers triple eight eight to five five, two to five
There's no easy way to say this: our hearts are heavy.
In the national area this morning
It's now national news
Another school shooting
lives, have been lost. I'm not gonna get into the reporting game because I've if I've ordaining georgia's, that the details or
changing fast and uh.
Suffice it to say,
another senseless, senseless shooting in life is precious and
I've has evil in it at its heart
square. Those too
My daughter is being picked up right now by my wife, because her school stop to pray.
Some of the students in her school knew no some students over there so again details
continually coming out and, unfortunately, another story, but this time it's in our backyard. So
hearts are heavy absolutely yet it won t
for this to happen in the nation another one for it to happen. You know down the street. It becomes
for real- and I know you as apparent it hits differently when you ve got kids in school
and this stuff just happening it's sadly, oh it's another week, another shooting and
just breaks our heart, so our thoughts and prayers, obviously with everyone.
acted in all appearance out there who are just deal,
with this idea of your kidnapping, safe in a school in today's world, so of god, forgive us.
What we take your calls today, because, unfortunately, life does move on
I'm glad, I'm not the news ken Taylor. I am to have an egg gig, but we're here to help and does so here we go.
Let's go to rico in Milwaukee was constant rico how coil,
yeah I've been trademark. All you ve got a simple answer. The question
join twin boys about. Do they, just
fourteen and in ve been working for the past two years.
to saving money shovel
no more lawns and is working? The husband
and you're about to go into actual workforce and they saved him from pretty good nest egg. Each one of them be about about twenty two hundred each saved in a savings account.
Awesome job they watch financial peace. What this could mean the wife are going to through the university, and so they watch the videos in there.
Where did? Why should they invest their money in condition?
Well, we aren't. He talks about the two brothers were one beshear when he was younger, the other one did later
Sure you wanna be thou the brotherhood a lotta sooner, and so they carry
No one or worse today, at the money other than just a saving. The cap have mats incredible. Will you
at an incredible job as apparent steering them towards this. I assume these guys are living debt. Free they want to continue to live debt free. Yet
then the jug around it. I guess we are again verged on so we just longer where workers are saving up. I am I am I gonna have emerged.
Steinberg Gacy did, I guess you got there. Y'all are rage set up? Surely there give them what they want to know. Your goal is to to be
a millionaire again early age. In my time on the town, I willingly arrogance,
I shall not be like you're, going to be in the forty years old. So like this, where you have to worry about it, we are our age so
Well, here's the thing! Mathematically speaking in
Thing right now is not gonna caused them to be a millionaire anytime soon, but that muscle is what's really important, so you could open up a custodial raw fiery and
can put their earned income into that.
and you said there entering the workforce. These kids are fourteen. Tell me about what workforce looks like a fourteen.
Why we may have a negative towards I get the piglet wiggly wrong.
global restaurants, where they can make work as it won't work,
So if I like nothing to strangers, but they can actually start actually have a natural job,
Are they in school as well full time you're looking for,
and then turn wintertime everyday. Shall walsh no around the neighborhood in summertime. They got launch unknown.
it's an antenna. Gonna make money. I love it
and a high yield savings account as a great place to park all that money, and I personally, if it was my kid or I was the kid, I would not invest into the stock market right now. Here's why
They ve got a lotta life coming at them in the next four to six years, when you think about
buying a car going to call
We didn't there so many variables we don't know about
that money tied up in the stock market,
because they wanted to be millionaires, they're going to be millionaires as soon
They figure out what's next and they start investing at twenty one years old up through fifty there.
multimillionaires
but right now, there's a lot of variables at play and I'd be cautious about
all in all. Investing aren't will thank you for the code.
go in and why the caution well, because
at fourteen years old yearbook
get your drivers permit and you're excited, and so what happens when you have all your money in the stock market you go. I gotta get a car loan. I don't have any money, you save up for problems you face in this week.
I thought about price. It's like you, gotta save up for just fun life. Things is the idea right or you know I want them to still be kids, and so, while it's great to invest a little bit of money, it's easy
to turn that dial too far at fourteen you ve got even of a dollar to your name. Are busy investing a love? What what sharp kids I love! Jackson is up next to tap a floor dejection. How can we help a guy?
They called bid me wondering if my wife, man, opposition financially to go and pulled the trigger on a second vehicle, Bobby
one in an electric bite guy. We got about two.
Minutes will give George the numbers pretty quick.
network about eight hundred thousand bring home one fifty annually end
basically I'm wondering if it's ok to jump into a major vehicle and thinking like a toy tacoma. Maybe three
thousand dollars or sell or if I should purchase something a little more hooky, a man of great down. What's your other hearted and a third time, it's a hard on
We welcome your five: what's hours,
sixteen thousand. Maybe so, what's wrong,
What's pain, thirty thousand cash for tacoma.
While I would have to pull out of brokerage vaughan.
but I don't know if there is anything wrong with it. I thought you ask him if you ve got the cashing you're going to debt as long as all of these toys, things with motors and am don't add up to more than half of your income, which you just said, your poland one fifty and
I'll be seventy five as the upper limit for that and it sounds like you?
in close to that ok, yeah
the way tat. Even if I had to pull it out a brokerage, it wouldn't be a day. Yeah, that's not! Retirement funds such as the taxable brokerage account yeah.
Oh yeah, you investing for in that brokerage account thoughts
I'm fine deafened, as indeed are not me, you know, what's going to happen at tacoma, you paid cash, for I would do it
Definitely no hoop, but you know if you're feeling like like out alone, has been thirty than working. You get. What kind of truck and eager for twenty you know me, you got options is what we're here I mean you guys. Are debt free with an emergency fund? Yeah yeah did get the tacoma
this is what this report is all about. You got freedom, you got options you're doing without dead you're, not setting yourselves back financially, and this is what investing as far as you can enjoy your life now and later,
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If I was going to get. If I was a truck guy, it'd be a tacoma yeah. Really you know, I love a toyota. Can you do you? Do I think I would get an american made just me, I'm a patriotic american. I want that thinking to run til. I run easy, easy all right, hey we're not going anywhere your calls coming up next. This is the ramsey ship
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the show continues on coleman joined by george Campbell with a k by the way it's a coalmining camel today. What are we covering? It sounds like a law firm that I would not hire. I know it really does yeah like bad suits. You know like one of those like injury lawyer, commercial, lapel, yeah, there's that actual camel in the commercial that
would you now are delicate we're here to answer your money questions, of course, but I'm here I'm the work personality and so for dec
David said that you're in.
Mister graves, wealth, building tool. I specialize in helping people make
cause. George they're doing something there good at and they
of, and we saw or millionaire study the largest millionaire study of all time that night,
six percent of millionaires loved there
and that's what I do so it plays into the money. So I'll take your work. Question violent stuck generally
happy leader, yoda toxic environment? You feel stuck not a ladder to grow, I'm here to help.
You're making more money in moving through the boy.
be steps fast or so the bigger shovel guy. Can we say that I liked? I need a shovel when I hope I shall just bring it here like a big snow shells aggressive. Is it a little aggressor or shadow, lead it up a little tiny tool. You know just for dig into mulch, that's great well
The tiny shovel for tiny ghost. That's perfect! That's wonderful! That's I like to see as the purpose guy that cause people that they are craving purpose and it's a luxury in today's world. We don't have one hundred years ago, the truth we went from survival to now. We want to thrive. That's right! You up and do that. That's right and the money thing works with that. So, let's go laurie is in cookeville tennessee, not too far away from us laurie. How can we help? I
I just wondering.
You can not continue to lose money, so we can they retired lou.
walk through this. How old? Are you guys?
I was next month is sixty to my husband. The month after will be sixty one. Ok, and are you
working or you both fully
tyrone. Now we ve been right, we ve been wholly retired, we fifty four and fifty five la and I will yeah yeah.
So anyone can say about where have you been bringing any income at all now now
So you're just pulling very nasty egg.
When we first started for the first year, we had some, but yet
But this time my nafta from and asking what we
the total next day, when you retired, and what is it today, it was
a little over a million when we started in were one million pointy right now leave last like three hundred thousand in the last few years. Ok
yeah you, you said we keep losing money. What did you mean by that?
That's nice,
going down what,
they currently allocated in dark new tools.
January. We just we just
A hundred thousand annuity become part of the total. Ok
Are you working with a financial adviser right now, yeah yeah,
absolutely and we are have an appointment to see what one
it was recommended by debris, injury, unable sixty zero
his plan as yet my guess is one of our small investor prose, which is our financial advisers. We recommend across the country they probably wouldn't
put you in an annuity
Most of them are acquired Julia junk. There's only-
one, very specific scenario. That would make sense for that
as far as you losing money, what is a percentage that you ve lost, speak?
as everyone has lost money: three: ok, twenty three percent:
That's about right and the esa p five hundred lost eighteen percent in twenty twenty three and so
okay, everyone across the board has seen about a twenty twenty five percent dip in their retirement accounts which hurt ok, but we're not. I mean I know other people have lost money but yeah. Ok,
well now- run outrageous
it's an outrageous you're, not alone, and in remember, were telling other people who are not in retirement age. You aren't drawing from a just hang on
You know it's a role, greater, don't get off the ride. That's when you really get hurt in your situation. The question
I've got, is what what is your fixed budget? Do you have
fix budget. You guys are really discipline with and what are you essentially evaluate? What are you drawing what I
a year on sixty five thousand, we are completely got free and have been for years. We only have one vehicle, so your drawing sixty five thousand from the retirement at about six and a half percent a year. What it! What does yourselves to security.
Mine will be eight hundred and twelve dollars, and that will be basically our cost of living raise for you know everything. That's gone up. That's right! You're, not even one at uni started drawing that you're correct, not
How do you mind? My first tat comes in june, all my husband, the following year, which will be fourteen hundred dollars. Ok, so let's go
perspective to have my parents and are very similar situation in there.
There they have no debt and dig.
can truly live off of social security. It so their retirement is just grow,
yeah and you guys have no dead. I assume none love it
I'm gonna throw something out here. Georgia- and I just think
retirement is over.
it and what I mean by that is. I said this on my show today. I said all the time you know I I think we are created to work and- and I think the
you can slow down. Yes, have alot
freedom, yes
but I wonder in a situation like this, where they go, you know what what could we do for fifteen twenty thirty hours a week they get to choose, they don't have to go to work, but if there
something that they enjoy doing that connects
make some money. I, like
I like go back to work at your pace at your choice. Laurie. I really do to offset some of this well. Well, we
we live. We live fire away from family for a long time and we have the camphor we bought for nine thousand dollars, so we camp
near family with friends.
The things we enjoy doing is this building thing. You know
so we don't get there
Now why didn't I won't be a year of mobility is if you like, building things, maybe I'd make a little money on the side, building things and can
one is to alleviate some of the stress, because the key when the market is down as you wanna, take out as little as possible because
what you're dealing with here, something called the sequence of returns risk
what that means is. If you take the same chunk out this year, while the markets down it's going to hurt you
only to grow that money that would have grown in the future with compound interest, and so you either
short in your time span to live off that million. If you,
the same amount
and so what you want to do is be as conservative as possible while them
Cats are down like this, so only take out what you need if you need all sixty five thousand take out forty thousand and now,
hope this money too
to live longer, as you have longer, and
that's, what can saying if you bring him twenty grand this year from part time, work that you love that allows you to take out. Forty grand from retirement set a sixty.
Do we earn in no way I get. My other question is: should we meanwhile mutual funds that we have too many stack than mutual funds? If I were to mutual funds personally, which are highly allocated towards you know, equities in stocks and so within that? Yes, but I would
be investing in any single stocks. Are yours?
you're, the guy already
one stage of the game. I died
do any single stocks. Personally, I dont do any crypto
I'm all mutual funds index funds giant
piles of stocks with the top companies. That's what you're looking for
and our small vesture prose, and we want you to interview two or three o k
and an you want
find the one where you got a good connection with it with them. You want them to be able
Splain things were you understand, so you are,
This is not them, but they're gonna walk you through our investment strategy. I you guys you going be good shape,
and I guess I don't wanna- be a dead horse here, George, but I guess
victim.
gave worry the advice I give my mom and dad
and that is
my dad are giving examples, so my dad's actually use he's a return,
past or never made a lot of money.
Paid, their house off, probably twenty some years ago,
My mom and dad household expenses is: are you u low? Ok, it's less than a thousand bucks. Ok,
and social security more than covers them, but he's out fillan pulpits get
five hundred bucks a week in just preaching
and is a lot better
that's more than enough for them, and so he
staying active when he was a telling me. On the other day, I loved my my
mind is fresh.
still engaged on an idea that actually on allows you to live longer. Atlas of you want to die quicker.
I got two words warrior
stop working and you will go downhill faster, so there you go, you get to choose, but there really is something I mean I'm not joking around. There really is the data here on this, so I think retirements overrated slow down. Well, I think the idea here is have a plan. Beyond I'm going to stop working yeah, I like financial planning for your future freedom in your future long term, but not working. I don't like that. Neither does your pot go move more of the ranges you have coming up. Identity
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two five five two to five is the number anna is on the line and actual north carolina anna. How can we help.
Hurry I'm so my question is more
honestly or my children, but it
early to me. Thank you for your honesty,
one euro, or are we doing enough money right now for children or are even more secure financial future work
become at all. How would you say we re, though
comfortably were able to put away between two to four hundred dollars between the two children
We again were not completely that free.
My husband in working towards that we'll be fine. It's just that I dont want our children to be in the same position by
time be reached our age. Currently, however, that up there are only two and three
one is now that early
I'll make it makes you are really amazing, mama bear you know, there's no shame in that.
Now, george, it's got a process that we teach here that I'm sure he was the dive into, but I I love her heart. Yeah you're, you're, you're thinking the right way, and I love that you want better for your kids and you don't want them to experience any financial
like you guys have, but the
Truth is just like on an airplane. They tell you to put your mask on first
That's what I want you guys to do for yourselves as put yourselves and a better financial position by getting out of debt and
fully funded emergency fund in investing for your own retirement, but
four worrying about the kids, the kid
get time on their side.
two years old
and so no one. I get there
his word there. You know now, eighteen years old and now we're just thinking about putting
some day. You know, I guess edward we're. Ok
We now want to be a better than ok right, ok,
and I want just be ok for the next sixteen years. One we don't know what the future holds. What have you? Kids? Don't go to college?
there is a one hundred percent chance. Anna needs to retire. One day there is
you ve changed the kids go to college graduate
be changing, even as we speak and the data showing that that's even getting skewed. So how much did you guys have?
mortgages
the authority car between the two cars is thirty. Five thousand credit cards is eighteen
thousand
and in between my husband and I stood alone. Forty thought: how could I,
What's your household now.
away now. One hundred forty five
Ah, so am I guys do.
No I'm a help adviser and my husband and network in june, and I guess we're both stable, no fear of losing our job on you just got a year in the end and both of us
though he and I really don't in
see any any trouble the near future, and we do have a question for you up or are
me those words like three month: ok,
now again
The issue of these dead or alive there? The car theme in the car loans in our work.
something that we were crude
clean the last two years because we bought a minivan because now we have to children in on. You know things like that, but if it's my
wednesday. What's the interest rate on those credit cards
we- have wondered spying.
Point: nine, nine, a being thirst, one. That is the aim of the seventeen, but you know,
yeah! Let me lay this out for you and to make it real it'll, be much more digestible for you. So we're gonna ignore the mortgage right now. You guys have one thousand dollars in the bank. Anything
outside of that. Let's turn the throne of this debt. You have ninety
two thousand in consumer dead. You guys make one forty five.
based on some napkin math, how quickly
Did you pay off? Ninety three make an one. Forty five, you are super focused,
required two years are, let me yet
years I of their say we can. We can do it. Oh comes a think about the future, though you know
four year old
but you have no deadline and your
working towards that fully funded emergency fund. You still have
fourteen years too,
them cash flow college, but here's the difference,
when have any payments anymore?
so how much more could we invest two years from now on?
words: if not a thousand dollars right, kill
on you make so much sense. It's just that yeah I get that is.
I didn't want to wait any longer here doing it from a beautiful place. You have a wonderful motivation to help your children. My worry is that they have to help you because mom and dad didn't prepare, prepare for retirement cause. They're busy, helping us go to college that free.
And so were target to two and a half years from now, you're in a different place, anna and
I'm so proud for you guys are going. I know those kids are gonna, go to college debt free if they
used to go at all? Yeah anna, so the answer
The first question is no you're, not you're, and stop that in fact water.
You ve put aside you're in a pull all of that and yours
are attacking this debt with our debt snowball, the smallest debt first knocked out.
minimum payment on that the german pain or whatever you just roland role, in a role in it and george who got. Let's get lots of if you guys taken
it'll peace or, if you read tonal money, make over you just listening, are watching the programme. What you're, what your exposure to us on a again,
saw a couple videos on youtube today and I saw the phone number. So I call it a night. He wrote down baby steps by dave ramsey. I was thinking of buying the books. I can read it well, you don't have to buy them today, because you're, the greatest mom, that is on the planet, where we're gonna, give it to you, Sir George, what have we given her financial peace university? I think financial payment fees university, one hundred per cent, the skitter in a community of people that are walking through the same journey. You find that
community is huge when you start journey like this is here's what you're gonna do you're gonna run in his people? Who try to talk you out of this?
because it makes just too much sense, your work,
to george moments ago. It just makes so much said bell because its
indeed, so much sense. You'll find this world is full of uncommon sense and very little common sense. So that's why people are like it. Just
It too much said george. What's wrong with a picture, I love that it's so simple, because then I even a dummy like me can understand. I enjoy urge your no dummy. I appreciate that
well admitted I'm going to the game, so my you're, so welcome. So hang on the line Austin's going to pick up we'll get you that, but can I want to do some math for an earthquake or the college saving site was a she's worried, there's not going to be enough! Love break it down, but we just told her two years from now: she's going to be debt free, that's right, the kids four years old, which means
fourteen years and daily turned eighteen.
if you just invest four hundred dollars a month.
forty eight hundred a year tracking with me and I'm still with for fourteen years with the average rate of
turn of ten percent, which is
what we've seen with the s and p five hundred. Actually been closer to eleven eleven and a half, I like what you're doing you're being conservative here's how much you'll have a fourteen years later. One hundred
thirty! Five thousand dollars now tell me
its work in a part time. Job has got some scholarships and you have a hundred thirty five bucks. A thousand dollars. Can these kids?
What college did free if they choose the right college in the right major? Maybe so,
in state and what s? What? If your kid
Don't want to be a lawyer doktor by that time, I'm
in that higher education is going to be largely irrelevant or the next decade of higher ad is going to see, alas, they're going to have a lot of money to get trained whatever. That means to do
They really want to do so. You win any and regardless of college or not college, you never use,
that money
but you ve invested in their future training education very wisely. So it gives me a lot.
but the problem is: can we're trying to do seventeen things at once? We never get out of debt whenever
fully funded emergency fund or trying to invest more time and thrown out for the kids college.
twenty years later, what exhaust exhausted? Well before that, goodness
it's, why I wasted so much money at the friday happy hour, drink in our faces. Oh wow, I didn't get the invite KEN wolters you and I don't do that. You and I
wait. Now we play spades with our wives and have popcorn were playing cricket yeah. What really wish KEN coleman sport is more your speed I'll tell you what's my speed, more calls for real people who want to win? How about that? My friend you ready for that quick commercial break, he's george Campbell, I could comb, and this is the ramsey show. You know.
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two to five and georgia. It's that time, a year again, I
accused myself from this, because I say the word tax and I see that I start to think bad thought.
And then I sailing have you filed your taxes? You owe you
phylum as soon as possible meat.
To get em over because it looms in my life and I like to get her over. I don't like thinking about the government taken my hard earned money. Don't get can started
What we do get a lot of questions about taxes and its confusing, and so to help you get a better handle autumn. Let's unpack, when these
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Oh, I have a question in my question. I just found my cat,
I couldn't have that better george! You set this call now. Alright happenstance court.
You just filed your taxes. How you feel
I'm not feeling too great. I owe the iris about fifty five hundred dollars and that's about it
optimal. I have in my favor right now I'm trying to figure out how I should paid off. Ok
while the good news is. We don't owe this money quite yet we ve got a lot
at a time right right until tax day
you getting any paychecks from now until then
SAM. Ok, what will that amount be? Do you have any idea
I get around like nineteen hundred per
check every two weeks. Ok, after taxes
so we'll have to more paychecks until through tax day, yes, great
How can we use that money and still get by on April eighteen, fifty,
Five hundred comes out and you still have a thousand bucks to your name and some money in checking
yes. Well, I have a separate accounts for about a thousand dollars, because I was reading now one of the book,
I'm told me about the shall I see you have a thousand dollars in a completely separate our great haven't touched and then your fifty
Five hundred in another account. Yes,
perfect, so we're gonna go hinders use that money and it stays.
Because you worked hard to get that fifty five hundred, didn't you yes, but think about it this way,
you owe that money would have come out of your paycheck if we had our with holdings, correct and so is just
It was just some. You know, math
and financial, quite right.
You don't get down yourself, that's just a gesture with holdings. If you want to avoid the giant tax bill next year- and you can do that
your w for form there, your employer,
now. I want to add something here: george, because this is this
type of thing has happened to me before
using how to dinner, and
even though I had it set aside, and I was able to make it happen and you just walk or through the options? Courtney, I gotta tell you
on the type of person I usually is like are. What can I sell?
How can I make some extra money how to avoid dipping, and how do I avoid debtors rice dipping into my current accounts, if I can offset it, even five
your box, a thousand bucks to
two thousand corky,
I just want at least challenge you to consider. What can you sell? How can make
extra money between now and tax day so that you're not taken his big ahead? That's what I would be think, ok
you know and then just cutting expenditure say. What can we cut in the next few weeks? That's coming out, maybe a subscription
thing we were going to do or grocery bills are shop. What's on sale, let's eat the leftovers, they weave a neighborhood yard sale come on up courtney and my neighbour. If you want to make the drive down franklin and you can to set up a little taken besides in asia, the gas money she would spend driving from chicago to nashville, wouldn't be where I didn't think about, but
trying to be got rid of here, george! I would go to your yard sale. Well, I wouldn't let you in there because you'd be criticized in all my prices. You be walk of people going that's over per. I would at high gotta shared a camel hack here that our saviour five boxers, I'm gonna, where fake moustache and shelter here yard sale can.
if the police cleared?
it's not really great. Could I could do better. I like to see that all
go to LEO now, while or stay in the windy city areas, Chicago's popular to day, let's go to LEO leo. How can we help
Because my call down- and I actually had a question in regard to a young- I haven't
your home appear that I have to do for the house, some numbers looking too
How do I go about that
I take out alone. Do I what
the entire for what's the repair and how much is it going to cost
it's the repairs very to be the tank thummim.
And those are lower price here, I'm getting quoted around twenty to thirty,
then, for the first two or three that open
I do have to mars myths coming up.
And when they reached the two words backing me in our approach, taking up her child in a month and a half, so
We do have around six thousand saved up so far, but
take out alone. I have no idea how urgent is this.
What is quite urgent because the work the more we put it off the more damage wicked due to the home, with
the pomp and everything in the basement
so right now, for example, without blocking into too much detail. But the toilets won't even blush that love
Oh, you know that way better than I would have to be like it's a for alarm urgently.
Oh yes,
Yeah have a system. I now set up a kind of
band aid, but it's not really
scots. Have you
these companies if there is a temporary fix that can get you by for six months.
Yeah, I actually spent around close to three thousand dollars already for a a discovery for them, dig it up and a jet the pipes and all that and nothing helps a boy so without that they're actually just really replace it.
and you said this has to happen soon. Are we talking a month from now two months from now six months from now on
next. We, the toilets, all flush. George, I'm go it tomorrow,
yeah who yesterday on a three year, what money do you guys have access to that is not dead.
city of six thousand savings,
the idea you can sell their eyes
we do have.
We have two who tease
and my wife's cars were really nice, but how about it?
repaid paid off what why those go, but you need three cars right now.
Oh, I use one for a door dashing I'm the side as aside hustle, and I keep my they're both very not value.
as I probably only get about a thousand
either of them
and then how about health care? What are we looking for? As far as the the bill for the baby,
the eyes, good healthcare? You know we have great healthcare
my job so we'll be. Ok, that's fires, thumb.
As you will be ok, so right now, with our building, everything were able to save the closer three thousand a month
I'm probably selling mama's nice car in order to get this thing taken, care of and we'll get her another nice car later. But right now we got to emergencies. We've got a baby on the way and aseptic to replace it, so we have to get real, drastic, real, drastic, tough situation, a self styled. Thank you for the call LEO and george good hour and say thanks to J crew, keep it and saw the air to you. America. Thank you for listening. This is your show. This is the ramsey show the hey it's kind. If you love the show and want a deeper dive on your money journey, we have a weekly newsletter that gives you training and helpful articles and tips on following the Ramsay way. Go to ramsey solutions, dot com today to sign up for our newsletter again, that's ramsey solutions, dot com to sign up for our weekly newsletter pay. It's james producer of the ramsey show. This episode is over but check the episode notes for links to products and services you heard about during this episode, thanks for listening,
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