Quint (host)

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DIY Money | Personal Finance, Budgeting, Debt, Savings, Investing · Back to the Basics: Fast Cash and Emergency Fund · 10 Jan 2025 podcast

You have in your budget built in not only the monthly budgeted expenses you're aware of and know all the time, but also these calendar year expenses such as Christmas or renewals of auto registration or taxes or insurance premiums or whatever it might be.

School bills, etc.

Also vacations or Christmas.

I mean, these are all critical things that are not miraculously going to go away.

You must face them head on.

So you've done all that.

Now you've been able to manage whether it's a side gig, a second job, or just a process of cutting.

You have positive margin.

Well, I want to talk a personal story on this.

So all of these things, you know, the awareness of what we're doing could be done in the first couple of weeks, meaning you could start tracking your – this is what happened to me, all right?

And it's important to – Dave Ramsey calls it a gazelle-like intensity, and I love that because it is.

It's very, very critical to have this gazelle-like intensity.

I remember sitting down again.

I started figuring out my expenses.

I wanted to, quote, get a budget.

I got very frustrated when I didn't know what my entertainment was, what I'm spending eating out, et cetera.

I went for a run.

I realized I got to track expenses.

Within two weeks, I started tracking expenses.

I was sick to my stomach with what I had already spent eating out.

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