Help Me Budget This My Family Is Dying

Jan 11, 2007
Hello, goons!

I am AsInHowe, and you may know me from SAS, TFF, and D&D. I'm a certified financial professional, treatment things from insurance protection and investment, to retirement and business organization planning. I gauge what I'm trying to say is...stuff like Dave Ramsey infuriates me, as someone who knows better. So that'due south what this thread is hither for, to help yous know better, and hopefully help y'all learn plenty to explain information technology to your loved ones and friends who are defenseless up in this kind of thing.

Dave Ramsey is creating a generation or 2 of people with bad financial mindsets, so when they do go to retire, at that place won't be coin there. Or if there is money, information technology will all get abroad soon. And that's by design.

On the other hand, I'm coming from a Fortune 100 company, with communication designed to practise the following: protect you lot/your family unit in case something happens, program and invest for your big future expenses and retirement, and create a fiscal program around what you're passionate well-nigh in life. Essentially, the opposite of Ramsey, and yet the bodily financial freedom that he professes to give.

(If you do have any personal questions or annihilation like that, individual messages are open up. I'1000 available to speak with, and hopefully help some people, whether it's themselves or others. Just saying.)

Dave Ramsey is hugely pop inside the Christian media industry, and talk radio, for those that don't or barely know. He's substantially become the go-to fiscal guy for the conservative suburbia and heartland of America, with all that entails.

Hither, watch this basic video from CNN.

https://world wide web.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng2f_ZlZjdQ

The big takeaways are this:

- Dave Ramsey is a gun possessor, like you, his ideal client and cultural peer.
- Yous should non spend whatsoever money on nigh anything pleasurable now, and so you can presumably have more than coin later. Live like you're broke, all the time and forever.
- That money yous take later should exist given abroad, ideally.
- Dave is very Christian/"common sense", which gets him in the door, but "common sense" can as well be looked at equally stupidly basic.
- All luxuries, whatever they are, are sinful and bad.
- Therefore, if someone has something prissy, they are sinful and bad. If someone doesn't have money, they are sinful and bad.

Essentially, you should exist spending adjacent to nothing, living similar a poor person, and then when y'all exercise have money, don't be greedy - give it away, to your church preferably.

This thread is for general financial give-and-take, especially in regards to bad popular advice, bad ideas, and generally pervasive ideas that are doing harm (or doing assistance).

I will be posting some more things below, including a takedown of Dave Ramsey's basic curriculum, and go from at that place.

Enquire away, and hopefully everyone learns something.

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Pollyanna
Mar v, 2005
Full communism at present # ? Jul 20, 2017 23:49
AsInHowe
Jan eleven, 2007

We volition get around to this, actually. There volition be some socialism chat. # ? Jul 20, 2017 23:49
WampaLord
January 14, 2010


Here's my favorite thing that makes me Aroused Nearly Dave Ramsey:

He encourages all his listeners to tithe x% of their coin to their church, no matter how dire their financial state of affairs. gently caress Dave Ramsey.

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Joe-Bob
May 12, 2005


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AsInHowe posted:

Dave Ramsey is creating a generation or 2 of people with bad financial mindsets, then when they do get to retire, there won't be coin there. Or if there is money, it will all go away soon. And that'southward by design.

I'1000 curious, what'southward and then bad near his practices for his practitioners? I don't know a whole lot about him, only I suppose that his "debt snowball" approach is not always optimal since your smallest balance may not be your most expensive residue. Is it the ten% tithing matter that'due south ruinous? Or is there something else going on here? # ? Jul 20, 2017 23:55
SpaceCadetBob
December 27, 2012
OP can you lot show me on this doll where Dave Ramsey touched you?

I hateful yeesh, sure I don't hold with every last tenant of Dave's financial peace mindset, but it has helped way more people and then y'all e'er will get control of their finances, and even get rich and buy fun luxuries that he doesn't take any problem with at all.

Your dumb as poo poo.

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AsInHowe
January 11, 2007

you're* # ? Jul 21, 2017 00:09
SpaceCadetBob
Dec 27, 2012
You lot actually going to tell me what specific bad communication Dave gives or only be a dumb as poo poo grammEr nazi. # ? Jul 21, 2017 00:eleven
Coohoolin
Aug 5, 2012


Oor Coohoolie.

Help I brand money whenever I tin can get a gig or a guitar student, how can I leverage my folklore and journalism degrees into coin? # ? Jul 21, 2017 00:12
ErIog
Jul 11, 2001


:nsacloud:

Joe-Bob posted:

I'm curious, what'southward and so bad about his practices for his practitioners? I don't know a whole lot almost him, but I suppose that his "debt snowball" approach is not ever optimal since your smallest rest may non exist your most expensive balance. Is information technology the ten% tithing thing that'due south ruinous? Or is in that location something else going on here?

His communication is kind of harmless if you lot already have money and y'all literally merely need somebody to tell you, "hey pay off your CC instead of buying that new jet ski." If you're someone who's not making a living wage(a lot of people) or are like 1 health crunch away from bankruptcy(probably virtually of the US) and then information technology's harmful because it starts from the imitation premise that yous really have control over your fiscal life.

Most people in the US are not actually in any position to control their financial future due to factors outside their control(falling wages for decades, no universal healthcare system, healthcare costs through the roof).

So he'south just convincing a agglomeration of people who simply literally don't take enough money to cut any "luxury," and and so also reduce their income by x% by giving it abroad to religious institutions. Neither of these things are going to prevent any kind of bankruptcy or really lead to savings leading to wealth.

It'southward just-globe stoic-poor personal-austerity-programme bootstrap bullshit.

ErIog fucked around with this bulletin at 00:xvi on Jul 21, 2017

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AsInHowe
January 11, 2007
First off, let's talk over some bones demographics. Dave Ramsey's core demographic is as follows:

Married couples in their 30's and 40'due south. The husband has a bluish/white collar full-time task, and the wife is either a stay-calm mom or is making extra income that is purely extra (for what it's worth.) They have a house, multiple kids (probably 3-4), and lots of credit carte du jour debt, considering they don't know how money works. Daily expenses are off the chart, considering they don't know how coin works.

Presumably, those big credit card bills came from Mom, but we desire to guilt Dad about information technology, because life is exactly similar a tacky family sitcom.

Both parents graduated from college before 2007, and immediately got a well-placed job in their field. They are planning on having their kids do the aforementioned matter, because that's how college works - you go, you get a caste, and you immediately become a loftier-paying chore, and anyone who says otherwise just isn't working hard enough at looking for a task (or they went to an unproductive liberal college).

The stock market place will always become up, home prices are e'er ascent, and anybody'southward taxes are style also high, which is all common sense that anybody knows and shouldn't be questioned.

This hypothetical couple just needs to be more disciplined, and their real fiscal problem is just lack of discipline.

Therefore, if anyone has financial problems? Information technology'southward just a lack of discipline.

Can't beget jacked-up wellness insurance rates? Lack of subject field.

Being see bankruptcy by something predatory? You're non working hard enough.

Anything bad happened to someone, and they need your help? It'due south their fault, they deserve what happened to them.

It's substantially a bad and stupid reading of the story of Job, bringing things back to the Christian base. And this is where things similar the castigating Trump health intendance neb come from, as part of the generally meanspiritedness seen throughout some parts of the country.

If yous're non the couple higher up culturally, or you're dealing with something bad that happened...it'south your mistake, for not being disciplined enough.

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Secret Agent X23
May 11, 2005

Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore.
I oasis't heard a lot of Dave Ramsey, but from the five-minute chunks I've caught on my car radio every 6 months or then, I take away this: (1) aye, the Christian affair, which I do detect a bit off putting just because of how loving difficult he hits information technology, nearly to the extent that yous'd think he's telling yous you can't perchance be financially successful unless you become to an authorized Christian church building each and every week and tithe (and maybe that'southward exactly what he ways), and (two) get debt costless.

Can yous comment on point 2? It seems like a worthy enough goal to me, simply I know I haven't heard/read enough of him to catch everything Ramsey would want to tell me virtually it if I gave him the time.

# ? Jul 21, 2017 00:31
Jurgan
May eight, 2007


But pour it direct into your gaping mouth-pigsty you decadent slut

AsInHowe posted:

It's substantially a bad and stupid reading of the story of Job, bringing things back to the Christian base of operations.

By "bad and stupid," you lot hateful completely backwards, correct? The whole point of Chore (which most people forget/never knew) is that it's wrong to claim suffering people deserve what happened to them. # ? Jul 21, 2017 00:38
the black husserl
Feb 25, 2005
None of Dave Ramsay'south listeners actually follow his financial communication and he knows it. Financial advice isn't the signal at all.

The bespeak is to go far okay to hate poor people and never ever vote for whatsoever progressive legislation considering society doesn't deserve to improve because guild wasted it's money on (hiss) frivolous sinful luxuries.

reignonyourparade posted:

My mom is existent big on Ramsey and based on that I gotta say if the "alive like you're poor, no luxuries ever" actually is part of what he'southward teaching he'south doing a really bad chore of teaching it.

Exactly: that isn't what he'south teaching. His advice is incommunicable for anyone to follow, especially for Americans, where the entire culture is based effectually consumption of one stripe or another. He's teaching that it's okay to dismiss the poor and sick because they didn't get debt free.

the black husserl fucked around with this bulletin at 00:51 on Jul 21, 2017

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AsInHowe
January eleven, 2007

Jurgan posted:

Past "bad and stupid," y'all mean completely backwards, correct? The whole point of Task (which most people forget/never knew) is that it's wrong to merits suffering people deserve what happened to them.

Aye. Completely backwards. However, the people listening aren't really also deep in the Bible, and just know the superficial level. (If this is something anyone is running into, I've got some messages that fully explain the correct signal of Job.)

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Dave Ramsey's greatest hits come via his Financial Peace University, a small-group Bible study regularly taught at churches. It's a 7-step program, which I will explain and deconstruct below in the posts to come. Each of the quoted portions are what Ramsey has on his website to draw each step. Starting with...

Step 1 � $1,000 to start an emergency fund

quote:

"An emergency fund is for those unexpected events in life you can't plan for. Whether there'due south a plumbing issue and everything but the kitchen sink is draining, or your brakes are squealing at every stop sign, you can exist ready!

In this kickoff step, the goal is to relieve $1,000 as fast as you tin can. Go through your storage boxes and sell some stuff. Piece of work an extra job. Practise any it takes to start saving coin. Once you have information technology, open a checking account that is separate from your regular business relationship and put the cash there. When a car battery goes out or a baseball meets a window in your business firm, you won't have to get into debt to fix information technology. Yous don't want to dig a deeper pigsty while you lot're trying to work your way out."


Okay, this seems vaguely obvious, and if you lot tin can't practise this normally, that's a larger issue. This is where the whole living wage statement begins. If you lot're not making good money, enough to be wasting money, everything falls apart from here.

No one should be living beyond their ways in general, and looking at things at a unproblematic level, this all makes sense to begin with. You lot should have an emergency fund if yous can. If you're making practiced coin, you probably already do accept some sort of savings account, because that'due south super basic.

Nevertheless, I see two major points of concern here, coming from the second paragraph.

First off, y'all should be able to save $thousand in a very basic way. Review what you're really spending money on, and see what tin can be done to minimize information technology. (Similar, if y'all buy drinks at a convenience shop, you could save some money by buying them at the grocery store and merely taking them from abode each day.)

Saving $1000 is a relatively small amount for the desired demographic, and if y'all aren't making enough money to waste product...saving $1000 is harder than people remember, and if you aren't making that much money, information technology goes back to the lack of subject field.

That's why Dave is throwing out coincidental suggestions like "Work an extra job.", similar everyone but casually has time to do that. If y'all accept a family unit with kids, information technology's not similar you have lots of extra time to just Become PICK UP A 2d Job. If you're already barely making plenty to live on, for whatever reason, it'due south not similar you have a agglomeration of stuff in a storage unit to become sell. This is "common sense" advice that but doesn't apply to people, but it'due south presented in a way that makes the listener assume that everyone's simply in that state of affairs.

Second, y'all need to save coin, just don't destroy your life to practice and so. Liquidation is of import in terms of timing, and doing it as fast as y'all tin isn't necessarily the best thing to do. You should have extra money for problems in general, simply that tin exist done with the basic reorganization that I mentioned earlier. And as well, nearly people are saving money in places every bit it is, just not in a liquid way.

(If you lot are going to liquidate things, exercise information technology in a responsible style. Effigy out how much things are worth, figure out what your minimum return is, and await/expect for the right heir-apparent.)

What this mental attitude does is create agony and money hoarding, which isn't good for the long term. Desperation and responsibleness don't go well together, considering yous're only focused on an arbitrary curt-term goal instead of your actual responsibilities in life.

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reignonyourparade
Nov xv, 2012
My mom is real big on Ramsey and based on that I gotta say if the "live similar you're poor, no luxuries ever" really is part of what he'southward teaching he's doing a really bad job of teaching it. # ? Jul 21, 2017 00:47
Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

What's your take on pensions? # ? Jul 21, 2017 01:10
Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005
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reignonyourparade
November 15, 2012

the black husserl posted:

Exactly: that isn't what he's educational activity. His advice is incommunicable for anyone to follow, especially for Americans, where the entire culture is based around consumption of one stripe or another. He'southward teaching that it's okay to dismiss the poor and ill because they didn't go debt costless.

Well again based of my mom I gotta say he doesn't seem to be doing a good chore of teaching that either. # ? Jul 21, 2017 01:15
AsInHowe
Jan 11, 2007

Pensions are a wonderful thing, and should be used a lot more widely than they are now. 401ks have replaced pensions, and that has ultimately been for the benefit of the company and not the employee. People are essentially having to work longer to achieve the same lifestyle in retirement. They go sold onto large returns that don't happen, and end up with the consequences.

Beneath are some articles that explicate that, and why.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mitchelltuchman/2013/06/04/alimony-plans-beat-401k-savers-light-headed-heres-why/#24775c5fa7b6
https://protectpensions.org/2017/01/04/401k-failed-replacement-pensions/
http://neatoday.org/2012/03/23/why-a-401k-is-no-replacement-for-a-pension/
https://www.newyorklife.com/articles/401k-vs-pension/

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AsInHowe
Jan eleven, 2007
Step 2 � Pay off all debt (but your house) using the Debt Snowball

quote:

"List all debts merely the house in club. The smallest balance should be your number one priority. Don't worry about interest rates unless ii debts take like payoffs. If that's the case, then listing the higher interest rate debt first.

This step volition make a huge departure in your everyday life. You'll use the debt snowball to knock out your debts i by one, from smallest to largest. Pay off the first one. Then add what yous were paying on information technology to the next debt and start attacking it. When yous outset knocking off the easier debts, you lot'll see results and stay motivated to dump your debt. As each debt is paid off, your cash menstruum will increase and the bigger debts volition be gone sooner than you recall. Before you know it, you're debt-gratuitous!"


Don't do this. This is a bad idea in the short-term, and the long-term.

Unless you're in deep, deep fiscal trouble, the corporeality of debt that you are in doesn't have an effect on your daily life. It'due south a number for by events that should be responsibly reduced in the long-term, and not excessively grown. Debt should be paid off in two means:

- Small accounts (things that can exist paid in one payment) should be paid off, settled, and taken off your credit report. These tend to be residual fees from quondam utilities, one-off medical expenses, things like that. Bank check your credit report, a surprisingly large corporeality of these tin can be dragging your score down. Discover them out, get them cleared off, and so become a letter from that company saying that the account is closed, and report it to the credit written report companies.

- Large accounts (things that will exist paid off over months and years) should first getting monthly payments, and should have any potential settlement offers noted. Monthly payments are important to keep accounts open up and active, and that helps on your credit study and score.

Once again, the very first part (and only that) is a skillful idea. Y'all should have a list of what you owe, to where, and at what interest rate. Add that in with a copy of your credit report as that shows your payment history, and whatever settlement offers for those particularly large accounts. You should try to pay the small ones off, and start making payments

Everything else, holy crap, that'due south not a mature way to do things.

First, you should admittedly start paying down and settling things with high interest rates offset. That will save you a lot of coin, and is legitimate common sense. The reason why Dave is against that is considering he is trying to brand the small feeling of victory that comes from paying off a bill turn into your chief focus and desire moving forward. Similar with Step 1, Dave is trying to cloud your better judgment by focusing on brusk-term wins that really aren't wins at all. (There are some Washington parallels hither, if you know what I mean. It'south the same playbook.)

Second, we live in a order where having available credit is important, and anyone who doesn't realize it is but hurting themselves.

Dave Ramsey's biggest gimmick is dramatically cut up your credit cards, considering yous shouldn't accept those evil, evil credit cards in your business firm or wallet. Dave doesn't use credit cards, just a debit card! And you should do the same.

You lot should not exercise the aforementioned. Credit should be built up and used for the right kinds of things, like major emergencies and existence able to get ameliorate rates on house or car loans, or even just having a modest credit card that gets paid in total each month to build the score up. Non having this available to you is a huge hindrence in modern gild, because everything is based on credit now.

This creates another situation to moralize, and another situation where people are left vulnerable. If y'all have any kind of full family lifestyle, you don't have a ton of money lying around for if disaster strikes. That's why you take things like insurance, credit cards, and health insurance. It's non an everyday matter, merely it's there in case you lot need it. Ramsey followers talk endlessly nearly merely saving money for absolutely everything in life, but you never achieve that bespeak if you lot're anyone who isn't dramatically making millions per yr. It isn't realistic. Just it'southward something that can be used to approximate others, because that person merely wasn't disciplined enough to make up for their broken leg, they must be ownership 10 iPhones.

And, if you actually follow that, and aren't building upward credit, you will be screwed when you lot exercise need credit, and you'll be paying a much higher interest charge per unit than if you were responsible all forth.

In the macro calibration...always wonder why conservatives constantly harp virtually the national debt when a Democrat is in control of things, and angrily want the debt paid off over funding anything that actually produces expert works for everyday people? Here'due south where that rhetoric is coming from, blown up into a discussion virtually the largest economy in the world instead of a suburban family unit household.

# ? Jul 21, 2017 02:05
Physician Butts
May 21, 2002


reignonyourparade posted:

My mom is existent big on Ramsey and based on that I gotta say if the "live like you're poor, no luxuries ever" really is part of what he'southward teaching he's doing a really bad job of teaching information technology.

Your mom might simply be watching it to back up her just-worldism. Of class poor people are poor! They don't follow those teachings of Ramsey! They have terrible impulse control and purchase lobster with food stamps! # ? Jul 21, 2017 02:xv
Hieronymous Alloy
Jan xxx, 2009

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Morbid Hound
If I'yard so smart, why aren't I rich? # ? Jul 21, 2017 03:12
PJOmega
May five, 2009

"Liberals." # ? Jul 21, 2017 03:23
Joe-Bob
May 12, 2005


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Sin, OP. Perchance y'all should starting time tithing?

ErIog posted:

His advice is kind of harmless if you lot already take money and you literally just need somebody to tell you, "hey pay off your CC instead of buying that new jet ski." If you're someone who's not making a living wage(a lot of people) or are similar one health crunch away from bankruptcy(probably most of the US) and so it'due south harmful because it starts from the imitation premise that y'all actually take control over your financial life.

Most people in the U.s.a. are not actually in any position to control their financial future due to factors exterior their control(falling wages for decades, no universal healthcare arrangement, healthcare costs through the roof).

So he's just convincing a bunch of people who simply literally don't take enough money to cut any "luxury," and and then also reduce their income by 10% by giving it away to religious institutions. Neither of these things are going to prevent any kind of bankruptcy or actually atomic number 82 to savings leading to wealth.

It'south simply-world stoic-poor personal-austerity-plan bootstrap bullshit.


I'thousand really interested in the intersection between grifters similar Ramsey and conservatism in general. He's got to be pretty popular with churches. They surely deal with a lot of congregants with serious financial needs that come up with stagnant wages and rise health costs. Still, at to the lowest degree in American Evangelical circles whatever thoughts of economical justice are socially unacceptable. Plus, tithes!

I come from this background, and I'm just astonished at how successfully right wing economic idea has captured such a huge group of religious people. Ane bit of dash that really gets lost when talking near Evangelicals is that prosperity gospel is pretty fringe amidst bourgeois Christians in the US. At to the lowest degree officially, most theologians and pastors would completely turn down explicit connections between wealth and godliness. Notwithstanding, it seems that the leadership is substantially bought and paid for by the Republican party since at to the lowest degree Dark-brown five. Board of Education - they've gained the globe and lost their soul.

This contradiction makes information technology possible for Ramsey to exist. A bit of moralistic nonsense gets used to respond a question that's not actually allowed to get asked.

# ? Jul 21, 2017 04:35
doverhog
May 31, 2013


Sometimes I only get tired of thinking of all the things that I do non wanna do. All the things that I practice not wanna be. Places I practice not wanna become.

You don't have to blatantly preach the prosperity gospel to be poisoned by it and the merely earth fallacy. Letters similar that are more finer conveyed with a veil for modesty'south sake. # ? Jul 21, 2017 04:48
PJOmega
May 5, 2009
Religious piety has long been an acceptable veil for the crooked and the sheisty, since it is considered extremely improper to attack one's pronouncements of faith. # ? Jul 21, 2017 06:xi
TROIKA CURES GREEK
Jun 30, 2015


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This all sounds like bible 101 , like are goons just discovering the basic tenets now? :shrug:

i hateful if you actually believe in an afterlife it'southward pretty rational to not care much about any temporary pain in life because you will exist rewarded with eternal bliss.

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Rappaport
Oct two, 2013
Buy less candles # ? Jul 21, 2017 12:57
Hieronymous Alloy
January 30, 2009

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Morbid Hound

Dammit I knew there was something

Joe-Bob posted:

Sin, OP. Perhaps you lot should start tithing?

I'm really interested in the intersection betwixt grifters like Ramsey and conservatism in general. He's got to be pretty popular with churches. They surely deal with a lot of congregants with serious financial needs that come with brackish wages and ascent health costs. Even so, at least in American Evangelical circles any thoughts of economic justice are socially unacceptable. Plus, tithes!

I come from this background, and I'1000 just astonished at how successfully right wing economic thought has captured such a huge group of religious people. One flake of nuance that really gets lost when talking about Evangelicals is that prosperity gospel is pretty fringe amid conservative Christians in the U.s.. At least officially, most theologians and pastors would completely refuse explicit connections between wealth and godliness. Still, it seems that the leadership is essentially bought and paid for by the Republican party since at least Brown v. Lath of Education - they've gained the world and lost their soul.

This contradiction makes information technology possible for Ramsey to exist. A bit of moralistic nonsense gets used to reply a question that'due south not really allowed to get asked.

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con

The short version: in that location's a huge demographic overlap between people vulnerable to con artists and people vulnerable to right-fly politics.

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Anubis
Oct 9, 2003

It's hard to go on sand out of ears this big.
Fun Shoe

AsInHowe posted:

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First, you should absolutely start paying down and settling things with high interest rates showtime. That will salvage you a lot of money, and is legitimate mutual sense. The reason why Dave is confronting that is considering he is trying to make the pocket-size feeling of victory that comes from paying off a bill plow into your main focus and want moving forrard. Similar with Stride 1, Dave is trying to cloud your better judgment by focusing on short-term wins that really aren't wins at all. (In that location are some Washington parallels here, if yous know what I mean. It's the same playbook.)

Second, we live in a club where having bachelor credit is important, and anyone who doesn't realize information technology is but hurting themselves.


I used to actually agree with you on this until I realized that I'm not his target demo at all. People with goose egg fiscal understanding and who managed to rack up 10s of thousands in CC debt while still having a decent income are his demo. In that case, freeing up smaller monthly payments can really piece of work out meliorate, because the "gain" of seeing monthly payments autumn off, forth with the monthly flexibility of having that payment available during months where expenses are unpreventable higher than average, leads to amend results. Fiscal planning in this sense is less near a giant spreadsheet and more about keeping these people on plan, on upkeep and continuing the goal. Information technology's completely psychological but watching a couple friends become out of debt, I finally understood where this came from. Paying off that smaller CC completely gave them a measure of cocky confidence that, yep, this is actually possible and there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

I also agree with you on the credit thing, however over again we aren't his target demo. His target demo will typically already have a completely trashed credit score and bluntly would exist amend off to a creditor every bit a blank slate than their current existence. If you ignore the religious stuff (if that's not your thing, and fifty-fifty if information technology is leave of debt before you crank giving up to 10% if yous feel morally obligated to attain that level) and and then go bargain with a financial planner or something later on yous pulled yourself out of debt, then yes his advice actually works.

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WampaLord
January xiv, 2010


Here's a practiced question, does Ramsey ever tell people to file for bankruptcy or is that seen every bit the ultimate no-no? # ? Jul 21, 2017 thirteen:27
Anubis
Oct 9, 2003

It's hard to go along sand out of ears this big.
Fun Shoe

WampaLord posted:

Here's a adept question, does Ramsey ever tell people to file for bankruptcy or is that seen equally the ultimate no-no?

I honestly didn't know the reply and was curious myself, google says yes. He sees it as a last resort, of course, rather than a robust tool for getting out of preditory loans which isn't e'er corking but that's more a problem with a generic one size fits all plan.

https://www.daveramsey.com/blog/the-truth-about-bankruptcy

Anubis fucked around with this message at 13:39 on Jul 21, 2017

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forkboy84
Jun thirteen, 2012


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WampaLord
January fourteen, 2010



That seems like but a basic "here's some info about bankruptcy" page, I was more curious if he really brings it up when speaking with callers on his show. But hey, take a expect:

quote:

Look at options. Before yous file, attempt your best to pay off your debt. Go on a blank-bones budget. Talk with creditors virtually lowering involvement rates or getting better terms. Move to a smaller place. Get an extra job to pay the bills. You get the idea.

Ughhhhhh. # ? Jul 21, 2017 thirteen:45
Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010


I'M SCARED OF SKELETONS!!!

McDonalds has all your budgeting needs covered.
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WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010



I wonder if the lack of a nutrient upkeep was meant to imply y'all should exist eating all of your meals at McDonald's. # ? Jul 21, 2017 14:02
SpaceCadetBob
Dec 27, 2012
Uh, doing a written budget is like pretty much the most basic rule for getting control of your finances. Pretty sure that role is not some horrible conspiracy to proceed you poor. # ? Jul 21, 2017 xiv:09
Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004


reignonyourparade posted:

I gotta say if the "live similar you lot're poor, no luxuries ever" really is role of what he'south education he's doing a really bad job of education information technology.
"If you are rich as gently cuddle, live as a non spending-obsessed middle class person, you don't need a tiger with diamond on its ternion sitting on your third ferrari" is kinda a good advice if you want some greenbacks to invest just the whole "live like you're poor" is kinda symptomatic of a full ignorance of what constitute poverty today .

Toplowtech fucked around with this message at 14:20 on Jul 21, 2017

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Fuck it.

WampaLord posted:

I wonder if the lack of a food upkeep was meant to imply you should be eating all of your meals at McDonald's.

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