okay i guess we can just go ahead and start
sure enough
so what i did while they were uh a matter they i made some notes while they were calling around and they called quite a few different number before anybody answered
ooh
is uh some notes that i wrote down about our budget and that is uh the biggest problem that we have is that
uh my wife and i both work and i get a fixed amount and i'm paid once every two weeks and my pay check always the same
okay
um-hum
she also get paid once every two weeks but her pay checks don't come at the same time mine do
okay
and she doesn't get a fixed amount every everytime she gets paid
oh geez
and so trying to put together a budget from pay dates that are different and change all the time and where her amount change uh has been probably been one of the biggest budget problems that that we have
wow
and uh so what we've done is kind of taken everything that we have had to pay out over a an extended period of time and then tried to average it
um-hum
so that we could approximate how much each bill would be and then budget our pay checks accordingly base on the minimum amount that we would expect to receive
okay
and that's that's been fairly effective
what happens if you get hit with some extraordinary expense
hum you mean like recently right
well i mean you know you know before you have a chance to say well geez we have a couple of months where we been low and put some off uh in the bank
exactly and that's uh that recently happen we had to have break jobs on both of our cars and uh so then we end up doing a couple of things uh dipping into saving is one
uh-huh ooh
yeah
and uh scrimping on other thing to uh get the extra money and then uh also we've got uh a an investment plan with a mutual fund
um-hum
um-hum
and that's kind of like a savings account so between all of those varies sources and uh that is obviously not a very good way of doing thing
sure
so uh
well i mean you don't want to do it that way you rather just keep it all in the in the bank but uh my gosh no i you know it's it's funny because when they came on they talked about
no
right
a home budget and what not i stopped and thought to myself
geez we don't have a or turns out that you know
don't even have one
uh my wife and i also work
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and uh she work for the federal government and i work almost for the federal government and but it's you know fixed income basically you know from pay check to pay check how much you're going to get
yeah
right
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and
uh i'm the only guy that pays any bills
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i mean she carries the check book but when it comes time everybody who mails a bill like gas company and the telephone and all of that kind of stuff comes to the house and one of them gets plopped in to my mailbox and then once a week or once every two weeks i'll sit down and and write checks
uh-huh
hum
well just recently we've we've found out that um
we've had her money direct deposited to one account and my money direct deposited to another account
a different account huh um-hum
correct and we've been trying to live off my money which is not working out
right so you can the her money and then save it or right
exactly we've been trying to well basically we wanted to use her money just to pay the mortgage on the house
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you know that was that way we wouldn't have to worry about the mortgage it would be covered and then we would have our living expenses on mine
uh-hum
and it just hasn't work out you know and it i i've read these budget book and they say well you know you sit down and you figure out how much it's costing you to live and all that kind of stuff but
right
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uh what i've notice is that it's extremely difficult for us to come up with a
right
uh it usually it it well cost it cost us you know uh five hundred dollars a month to live it doesn't work that one month it's five hundred the next month it's
a valuable uh budget yeah
um-hum
right um-hum
it's a thousand because you get the car insurance bill and then and then it goes down to two hundred because uh you're off on vacation or something or you know you you went traveling and and you didn't spend as much but then you come back and it goes up again and i mean it's uh that's been my problem
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hum
we've got bill for example like the uh car insurance you mentioned that come and and this is the other problem when it comes to budgeting is that we have bills that don't come on a
uh monthly or or once every two week bases like we get paid the the car insurance comes every three months
right
so that means that uh uh everytime because we haven't uh disciplined ourselves where we can have a uh
certain amount set aside each month for when that bill comes we end up
paying that whole bill every every three or four month and then that cuts into everything else on it
um yeah
well i do have to say that uh when you know when we were real serious about budgeting the money and doing all of this my uh sister sent me a book
and it was the book uh Wealth Without Risk by Charles Given
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and i do have to admit he had one suggestion in there that really
