is all you need
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i think just one is all you need
yeah i pushed a an auto dial um so do y'all have a family budget
well we don't right now we're planning on setting one up as soon as i can get some you know some better ideas on how to do that have you used one before
yeah we um a couple of years ago took a class um that was offered was a guy at our church um called Mastering Your Money by Ron Blue
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oh yeah i've heard of that
you've you've heard of him it's really it's been really good we've um we're on a a monthly budget and pretty much we we designed our own um
ideas of you know these are some set things that that we know we're gonna spend and um
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the rest we have in categories but for the most part it's been somewhat discretionary um
the like right now a and the next month will probably be a little higher in clothes if we buy for spring and summer and so
we may spend a little more there and a little less in another in another area
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so um but it's worked really well we've been able to save um
you know what we've wanted to save and and uh pretty much been able to do what we've wanted to do and we have some long term um goals that we want to do
have you put money into those categories or what what do you do for that sort of thing
well we um
i i keep the books and i'm the one that writes all the um all the bills and stuff and pretty much um i just know what i have to spend no you may not
um i know what i need to spend or what i have to spend and i just try not to spend it i know some people do um envelope envelope envelope
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systems and stuff but i don't find that works real well for me
well do you have any money that you uh specifically set aside for certain savings uh you know savings objectives
yes we have um we have like a college fund for our kids and we have um a house fund and we have a car fund and
i mean where do you put that money
uh we put it in a savings account or we have some of it in CD's and stuff but we we take that out every month and then divide it up into the categories that that we have
and we also we have a category of of short term goals that we put aside money each month and if we want to like right now we're getting ready to
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put up a fence and that will come out of there it's money that we haven't budgeted for
oh yeah
it you know things you know things like that and then um
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that's where it will come from and if we don't have the money in there we have to wait until it's you know up to where we where it needs to be
that's probably the key part right there is waiting until you get the money that you budgeted
i i'm sorry i didn't i didn't hear you
i say that's probably the key part right there is waiting until the money that you've planned for is there what about credit cards do have you do you still use those or
yeah
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is that part of the system to discontinue that
well he recommends that you don't um or he helps he recommends that you you get them down we we've never been real big credit card users and we always pay it off um
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every month if we use them um we're not real big cash carriers so occasionally we will spend or we will you know put uh a meal on it or um
i don't know sometimes i'll do mail order stuff and i'll put it on there but it we always it always we will always work it out where
where we pay it off at the end of the month so we don't put just a whole lot on there we don't use them just real real often except i do use my gas i keep track of my gas on my credit cards
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because that either you're not financed charged on there and you don't and you don't um you don't need to have cash there and they don't now you can get it at you know cash is the same price as credit
right
yes
so are you married
yes we are i am and uh we've got some children and uh
you know we've just seen the need for well we just moved into a house uh that we're renting and that's gonna
which will suck up your money real quick
yeah yeah it really will so we're you know we're going to have to really take a hard look at our uh expenses and things like that and uh
you know really make the dollars uh go a little bit further if we can and we uh had not been paying very much for housing uh since we moved to Dallas in July
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and uh you know we'd go out to eat on Sunday after church or something like that and i think we're gonna have to kind of watch what we do now because that can add up with five kids
