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Lucy Blakiston

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
318 total appearances

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The Curve
Why Everyone Needs an Emergency Fund.

Well, not low, but like, okay, we'll get to that in a second.

The Curve
Why Everyone Needs an Emergency Fund.

But basically-

The Curve
Why Everyone Needs an Emergency Fund.

you're better putting if you can putting a lot of that your surplus in the investments rather than having like a huge amount sitting there for yeah an emergency like unless you think you need that but basically I have it in a high interest savings account and when I started building it I just put like 300 pounds of repay into it and now I've got to a place where I have like nearly four months of my essential so yeah should shit totally hit the fan I can afford my life for four months

The Curve
Why Everyone Needs an Emergency Fund.

Ben Blakiston, see you later.

The Curve
Why Everyone Needs an Emergency Fund.

You find out your flatmate's eating all your food and stealing your clothes and you want to get out.

The Curve
Why Everyone Needs an Emergency Fund.

yeah so what kind of account should I put can I quickly tell you another one this is something that happened to our producer Emily as her she didn't use it as her emergency fund but she should have used it as her emergency fund so she was basically travelling she went into a hostel in like Slovenia or somewhere walked into the room and this guy was all

The Curve
Why Everyone Needs an Emergency Fund.

And she didn't think I'm going to go book accommodation somewhere else because I feel unsafe.

The Curve
Why Everyone Needs an Emergency Fund.

But that is an example of like, she should have been like, I've got an emergency fund.

The Curve
Why Everyone Needs an Emergency Fund.

I've got money when I'm in a sticky situation.

The Curve
Why Everyone Needs an Emergency Fund.

I'm going to book an Airbnb to get out of here.

The Curve
Why Everyone Needs an Emergency Fund.

You know, like it's, yeah, I know.

The Curve
Why Everyone Needs an Emergency Fund.

Isn't that wild?

The Curve
Why Everyone Needs an Emergency Fund.

Yes.

The Curve
Why Everyone Needs an Emergency Fund.

But like, that's an example, right?

The Curve
Why Everyone Needs an Emergency Fund.

Stuff that goes wrong that you kind of don't predict.

The Curve
Why Everyone Needs an Emergency Fund.

But if you have this backstop of financial, like an amount.

The Curve
Why Everyone Needs an Emergency Fund.

My favorite part.

The Curve
Why Everyone Needs an Emergency Fund.

Okay, so Rhys is our piggy.

The Curve
Why Everyone Needs an Emergency Fund.

IOU and answer.

The Curve
Why Everyone Needs an Emergency Fund.

Maybe this is a whole Lucy segment because I obviously know the answers to these, so this can be testing you.