Christmas in... September?
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DIY Money | Personal Finance, Budgeting, Debt, Savings, Investing
18 min
4 speakers
5 chapters
transcribed 1 month ago
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. You're listening to another edition of the 800th episode of DIY Money.
800th episode of DIY Money. 800 episodes.
That's crazy. What if we just stopped right now? What if we just, like, Logan came back. And the last episode. Mic drop. Like, they're connected, but no, we can't do the mic drop. But seriously, Logan's like, hey, how was the cutting of the episodes? It was great. We're finished. We're done. 800. Hanging up the hat. Let me tell you some things we're working on from 800 to 1,000. We're in the process of archiving all of these episodes. I mean, they're archived now, but we were creating a search engine.
Because if I get another email about, do you have an episode about this?
Yep. Oh, my gosh. I don't know. And we do. And that's fair. Well, with AI today, which is – listen, we created this before we knew AI was coming and being such a powerful tool. So we'll have a search engine within the site, allow you to search. We'll be able to know exactly what episodes cover what topics. It'll be amazing. I mean, it'll be an incredible resource library. Think about it. 800 episodes of, for the most part, for the most part – Timeless, timeless. There might be some tax changes here or there. Timeless financial guidance. And I want to thank all of you who have been with us every step of the way. It's been amazing.
How many people do you think have listened from one to 800 and not missed a single one? At least three, right?
A lot because we get people who binge, you know, binge and so forth. So we're going to do something a little bit different this episode. I don't want to necessarily, you know, no disrespect to any of our questions and, you know, somebody says, oh, I was the 800th episode and da-da-da. I don't want to do that. So we're going to pause, but we still want the questions coming. We want the questions coming. That's how we've had 800 episodes. I think 785 episodes have probably been questions. Which means, hang on a second, $785. The calculator's coming out. Think about it. We give a $25 gift card. We have sent out almost $20,000 in gift cards. There's no way. $19,625 in gift cards. That's 785. I just randomly said 785 because I'm guessing, call it 15, maybe more, 20, but just call it 19,000.
That's awesome. Booyah. You're welcome, Amazon. Come on. Where's our kickback? Give me a break. Listen, the questions, keep them coming. Podcast at DIYMoney.org. That's podcast at DIYMoney.org. But on this 800th episode.
Why are the hosts celebrating the 800th episode and what are they planning next?
which, by the way, is being cut on September the 3rd, okay, of 2025, 2025, September the 3rd, I want to take a break from the questions, and I want to talk about making sure you are preparing for, and it's September, it's the fall, well, it's starting to fall, the end-of-the-year expenses and the end-of-the-year psychology That can derail my fellow budgeteers.
There it is. I knew it was coming. The budgeteers. Yes, Christmas in September.
Christmas in September. But it's not just Christmas as we were talking about this episode and kind of our show notes and such. We were also talking about, you know, you roll into Thanksgiving. And you've got, you know, parties and events.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:01
2
Why are the hosts celebrating the 800th episode and what are they planning next?
4:01–6:53
3
How will the DIY Money archive and search engine improve finding past episodes?
6:53–12:58
4
What end-of-year expenses should I start preparing for in September?
12:58–14:54
5
How can Halloween, Thanksgiving, and other fall events derail my budget?
14:54–18:12