#121 - The Weirdest Categories We've Ever Seen (and Loved)
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm Ben. And I'm Ernie. And you're listening to Budget Nerds.
You are not alone.
No, you are not. Well, Ernie, we are continuing our categories kick here. We are talking about categories again, but we're not bringing anybody on. We're not going through a list of one person's categories. We're talking about your categories, the community's categories. Specifically, we're talking about your weirdest categories according to you. So it's going to be a lot of fun.
And they're the weirdest categories that we absolutely love and adore. Yeah. So we're not making fun of these. We love them.
So what we did, we posted on Slack for the YNAB team members. We posted on YouTube. And I posted in the Facebook fans group. Check out YNAB fans on Facebook if you want to be a part of that huge group, which is very active and very awesome. Is there anywhere else we posted? Is that it? i posted over on youtube yeah yeah yeah yeah we posted we did a community post on youtube so we got like 200 300 comments yeah closer to 300 so uh yeah if we ask you what your weirdest and we just sat that's what we asked we said what's your weirdest category and we're going to talk about it on budget nerds and you guys delivered
What is the episode about and how did Ben and Ernie collect weird category examples?
so we have come up with some categories um we okay it was a lot to go through so we did use the ai uh we put it into chat gbc and we're like help us oh gosh and uh it put us it put it in some categories for us and um helped us find some of the best ones but uh we did i did i did skim through all of them so there are a lot of really really funny ones but we we're going to talk about a lot of them today i think like up to like almost like 50 of them so
Yeah, we broke them down into five different categories, and we'll just kind of go through them category by category, talk through the individual categories, and I think it's going to be a lot of fun. All right. Well, should we just jump right into it? Let's do it. We're going to start with the funniest ones. Now, these are the funniest ones considered by AI. So I might have come up with some different had I read through every single, you know, all 300 comments. But we'll see here.
They're all funny. But yeah, these are some of the ones that stood out. All right. We just go right to the potty humor immediately. You can't even say the words. I know. Okay. So this is a family friendly show. There are a lot of curse words in these categories because that's what you guys, you guys are hilarious. So, okay. Uh, my S brain poo poo mess up with a poo poo emoji. Okay. Here we go. So, Mapfield wrote in, this was in a YouTube comment, said, my S-brain, poo-poo mess-up, where an overdrawn account fee is accounted for, sits at the top of my categories, and we've never overdrawn since. I love that.
I mean, it's super funny, but it's really interesting how it feels like it changed behavior.
Well, what I love is, so they haven't overdrawn... their count but they still leave that category there and i think it's like you could you could look at it two ways you could be like oh they have it they're like expecting to overdraft again right or they have it there as kind of a reminder that like i don't need that category you know what i mean because i haven't overdrafted in a while but it's just kind of a nice to remember like where i've come from i used to have a a s brain mess up and now i don't But I just love it. Like, you know, there was no thought into naming that category. It was just like they were mad and they just typed this out. That's what came out. First words that came out.
Love it.
Yeah, which is great. All right. Another pot of humor. Here we go. Another funny one.
Oh, balls.
That's it. And that's the whole comment. Like, there's no explanation here. I don't know what this means.
Right.
Absolute chaos.
I asked, is this a reference to the Goldbergs? Because I love that show. I don't know if you watch it, but the characters there always say, oh, balls, when things kind of go off the wall.
Okay. Did you get a response?
No, I didn't hear anything. So.
yeah who knows what the purpose of that one is but i love it i guess it's just if something something goes crazy yeah and uh there it is so i like that it's it's kind of a little emergency fund that's my guess but you know maybe if you're if you're watching a person who wrote that uh yeah let us know more about it or don't maybe it's
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:06–1:36
2
What is the episode about and how did Ben and Ernie collect weird category examples?
1:36–8:48
3
Which community submissions were classified as the funniest category names?
8:48–15:06
4
How did listeners use potty humor and literal names like 'Crapper was full' to track expenses?
15:06–18:18
5
What is the story behind the 'Drag Show Cash' and why did it stand out?
18:18–30:04
6
How do whimsical or pop-culture names like 'Banana Stand' and 'The Size of the Pie' help with budgeting?
30:04–44:55
Speakers
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