$126,000 in Credit Card Debt?
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I'm $1200 in credit card debt and feel like that's high as hell. 125k would probably have me fleeing the country.
You'd flee the country and become a migrant to another country. Lol.
😂😂
$1200 is nothing. That’s monthly
@@LiquiProductionsnot a flex
Worse than the Mafia. Dude is paying 3500 a month vig basically.
This reminds me of my best friend's wife. She's always about to start looking for a job. Somehow the perfect arrangement never comes around and she's been "looking" since about 1998.
It sounds like an excuse on her end. She just doesn’t want to work. She can get a part time job at Starbucks in the meantime and also Starbucks pays decently and she can work part time too.
Reminds me of Eddie from Christmas Vacation. “He’s holding out for a management position”.
I’m a woman and hate people (I’ve seen men do it as well) like this. It’s spousal abuse. She’s completely taking advantage of her husband’s kind heart and he deserves better. Gross and lazy.
As a side note, I do understand that this does work for some families but only when BOTH partners agree to the arrangement.
Almost 3 decades of about to look for work😮
😅😅😅😅😅
This is very sad to hear. You definitely hear how stressed he is.
What is sad is you can hear the weight on him and she is making excuses why she can't work.
I mean he brought this to himself. If he couldn’t see thru her laziness, then divorce her but instead he still stays with her.
@Chad-qe6yv he made excuses about why they are in a mess. They both need to stop excusing their behavior
Don't know how people rack up all this credit card debt. Soon as my credit balance starts to rover near $500 I start having nightmare of Dave Ramsey and I have to pay it off
Yeah, I start to stress if it goes over $100. I did the whole thousands of credit card debt thing. It scared me for life. After paying them off 7 years ago I promised myself I would never let it get that bad again and now I always pay the balance off before the end of the month.
Omg you and me both, usually if I can’t buy it on my debit card I can’t afford it, I’ve taken my cc off all the buying apps lol, Amazon, ebay, Mercari all of them lol, Dave Ramsey has really put the fear of god in me over using credit cards and debt, I’m alittle late but better late than never I suppose!!
I’ll tell you: get promised a job and compensation for moving to another state, have all your belongings stolen and then when you arrive to the state realize the job was a lie and no compensation is happening. Use credit cards to live, look for a job and then get hit with the COVID pandemic with no possibility unemployment benefits. That’s how you get into 140k in debt.
@@weldinggirl Always use it like a debit card. I keep plenty of cash in the bank. In the past month, half of my charges I consider essential or have sinking funds for (power, ISP, phone, health insurance, groceries, & car-related). I don't really have options to cut those expenses by much if at all. Maybe I could have put off the minor car repair (
@ryanthrives5152 The old adage, if it sounds too good to be true, then it's probably not true.
In my life, I'm fairly sure that I've missed out a few times because I was too cautious but I'm also confident that I avoided more pitfalls!!
I click on any Ramsey video with Jade; she seems so relatable to the “average” person.
She's a cutie
She's my favorite!!!
@@user-xw4vg1vy5e Agreed!
I agree. I would immediately subscribe to a Jade-centric channel like George and Rachel have independently.
People live beyond their means to impress others, plain and simple.
Umm no, sometimes people just want things, because they want things.
You talk like those that live above your means to impress others, but find excuse to sugarcoat that
100k (before taxes) is not that much in the state of N.Y. he was jobless for a year - and the wife was not bringing in income either.
He was unemployed while she wasn’t working. Exactly what “means” did they have? 😂
@@janelleg597any example? Stanley cup? 4Runner?
My vehicle got totaled a couple weeks ago (other driver rear ended me at about 40-50). Insurance paid me $34k for it. I only had about 16k left to pay on it. I took the other 18k and paid off my 5k in credit card debt, made my 1k emergency fund, and put 10k down on my next car. I feel much better about my situation now. I was upset about my vehicle at first but it turned out to be a blessing as weird as it sounds.
So how do you get from place to place while you save up for a new car?
@@wewhoareabouttodiesaluteyo9303.
He used $10k as a down payment
I can’t ever see myself buying a $34,000 vehicle. Too much for me.
10K *down* on your next car? You could have bought a used car outright for 10k....
@@TheFlyingZulu More like buy a used car and check for maintenance issues under a budget of $10k.
$3,500 MINIMUM payment for credit cards is sickening 😳🤢 Omg! That’s more than what most make a month
Right?! I just learned my friend has a $3000 MINIMUM payment for their CC debt too. But they have $17k in debt on the card, not six figures.
This was painful to listen to. These people are clueless.
Completely, totally. Will they listen??
@@machutson5493 probably not. They’ll most likely file for bankruptcy.
@@butlerbees6639 Yep
@@butlerbees6639yup and heap the responsibility on those of us who aren’t irresponsible
Yup
126k on credit card is just wild man
over 20 k interest per year.
@@franziskani Unless this guy is a big earner, and it definitely doesn't sound like he is, he will NEVER get out of this kind of debt! This is unsecured debt, the banks are gouging people for 20%+ in interest. No shame in pulling the plug and declaring bankruptcy if you are in a hopeless situation like this. This is what bankruptcy laws are for.
@@norwegianblue2017 100% correct. That $3500 a month is 42% of this man's gross salary. If that was a mortgage no underwriter would approve it, unless he was earning an amazing a salary like $400k. I agree he has no real choice but to declare bankruptcy.
😂 😆 $126K is nothing
Try multiplying that amount by 10
I know people who owe must more than that amount to banks 🏦
I thought I was bad owing 16000
He will never pay the credit cards off with just the minimum payments.
Mastercard are Visa appreciate it.
I would declare bankruptcy. They may never get out of this and they are completely broke. Then get them to go through Financial Peace university.
Ever
They can take his assets in bankruptcy...
You would in 500 years perhaps. My statement tells how long it takes to pay off on minimum payments. At 5k it's longer than my expected lifespan.
I have no idea how you could amass $120k in cc debt. Youd think they'd be cut off at $30k.
Said he took a year off work. Sounds like he tried to start his own business for awhile and it failed.
I have over a million dollars in assets and I can't get a credit card because I don't have enough revolving credit but have a friend that has nothing but debt, no assets and constantly is approved for refinancing loans and credit cards
You can accumulate about $60,000 worth a credit card debt on your own individual name so with two people I could see them having over 100,000 in credit card debt between the two of them
>I have no idea how you could amass $120k in cc debt
It takes a little finesse, some technique, but you can do it. if you wish, I can give you some pointers. I'm a bit of a credit card debt amasser myself . . . ( o.o)
If wife has a BA degree she can substitute at any school district. At least here in Portland, OR.
He's struggling so badly he still thinks he has two cars.
You got me laughing bro😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂 oh man 🤣
my parents immigranted from Vietnam 45 years ago (escaping the Vietnam war) to Canada. my dad knew very little english and managed to get a job at the oil rank in Newfoundland in the early 80's. He worked his ass off learning new skills and the english language. they have 3 kids and my mom worked part-time as a seamstress and then full time when we were school aged kids. they never went on welfare or took 1 cent from the government. they had one old buick which my dad used to drive to work. my mom caught public transport to work (she did a variety of shifts and would work morning and mid night shift whatever was available) she hussled. she took 2 buses to get to work in snow, rain, storm, etc. no excuse. unless mental health issues or disability.
love that you said unless mental health issues.
Tell them. The immigrant struggle is real. First car was $800 it was a shit bucket BUT it ran. they hustled hustled hustled for about 10 years then finally could relax.
Wife goes “i’m trying to make smart choices…”
Oh well then, keep doing what you are doing because it has been working swimmingly well so far
Narly… $3500 a month in credit card bills, on $100k is brutal
That’s easily half of his monthly post tax income
@@ImGairBair I make 101k and I take home 2600ish every 2 weeks. That amount of debt payments would be unbearable
@@ImGairBairyup
That’s just covering the interest charges. The balance stays the same. These banks are destroying this guy.
@@MaddaxxxEhe destroyed himself
Not sure why stay at home moms don't take in a couple of children that need daycare, you don't have to leave the house, can earn money and help another family out with the high cost of daycare. I took my kids to a friends for "daycare" and couldn't ask for better care and she earned money, it was a win-win for both.
Insurance.
liability...one kid has a accident which kids are prone to regularly or someone accuses you of womething and sues....not worth it .. .at all.
i wasnt allowed to babysit as a teen for same reasons and nobody babysat us as kids
I mean that is huge where I live. There also may be places close enough for her to walk to work.
I don’t know about every state but growing up in California people had to be licensed to have an at home daycare. I went to one for after school care for a while and the lady had to log everything she gave me to eat. She also had rules about the ages of the kids and number of each age group she could keep.
@@anndeecosita3586I'm pretty sure as long as you're only babysitting 3 kids or less then you don't need to be licensed or anything. She could watch 3 kids part time every week and earn some cash
She’s not a stay at home mom. She’s unemployed. The kids are in school. She’s at home watching soaps all day.
I guess your home cleans itself, laundries cleans itself and food cooked itself, and groceries just happens to be in the fridge, such stupid comment
😂😂😂
I know someone like that only they have no kids. She really just doesn't want to work at all and would rather stay home all day every day. I think once you get into that lifestyle of not having to actually be anywhere at any time during the day, you get too used to it. Sounds like this woman is too young to be like that. The woman I know like that, her husband is now working 7 days a week. But at least she cleans the kitchen for him when he's home. I guess there's that.
Some women don't want to work, and will fight there husband every step of the way on it. They do not care how much debt they are in. The fill it is the husband's job, to paid for everything, that's why.
Nothing wrong with watching soaps all day. I do. But I also work of a night.
Whats with all these stay at home moms with kids in school? whats the point of that? Husband makes 100K and is literally about to drown in debt. get a job and HELP HIM!
The housewives of today are too busy having affairs while the husbands are hard at work
They think 100k is enough to have a family AND stay home.
$100k is enough to have your wife stay home, depending on your lifestyle. But 3 kids on $100k? Nah she gotta go to work.
Unless he insists that she stays home which would be dumb, she has to make some money.
@@bigshotadventur18 the whole concept of housewife is crazy to me. why are we ok with women just sitting at home not doing anything? stay at home moms with young children is one thing, but what is that lady doing all day if her kids are in school and husband is at work? it makes no sense lol
@@tonytoni1150 depends where you live. where I’m at and honestly most of the country, 100K would be enough. the problem here is their income to debt ratio is TERRIBLE. even tho they make 6 figures, they’re broke af. if your family is broke and struggling, why would she be sitting at home being a “housewife” and not help the family? we got a real problem on our hands man
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6,8 and 11. All in school. It's a morning and night routine. Both work and it's slow cooker simple meals for years. Debt consolidation with the same income usually won't work. Debt consolidation with additional income works better because it's easier to absorb unexpected expenses.
She can get a work from home job.
$100K, roughly $85K after taxes. Credit card minimum payments should be roughly $3200/mo (based on a 18% APR). They're suffocating but I don't hear them fully committed to changing. She needs to get a job. Even fast food for $15 to $20/hr will be a much bigger shovel to dig out. Preferably something career-related for her for $50K+/year. If they have enough equity in the vehicles, sell 'em and buy cheaper used cars. Debt consolidation might be a good option to drop the interest rates, but will dig them into a deeper hole if they don't cut up the cards and change the behaviors that got them into this much debt. For the house, unless it's too big and they have a lot of equity, I wouldn't consider selling it. Having a low mortgage payment (presumably they bought pre-COVID) is basically all of the stability they can have in the situation.
I would suggest a HELOC to consolidate debt, then look at 0% balance transfers to try to lower the interest rates on the $125k in credit card debt. They will never get through this when the credit cards are hitting them for 25% interest.
@@barnabusdoyle4930 sure they would, it's just a longer road. If they have the equity and qualify for a good HELOC rate it's worth considering. 126% debt is almost insurmountable otherwise. I'd love to see the exact breakdown though.
@@barnabusdoyle4930 you're assuming they own a home
@@barnabusdoyle4930 Sure, and lose the house in the bargain. Heloc just moves the poison to a different shelf. Paying it off is the only solution
Im a stay at home mom with 4 kids. We've never made 100k/yr and we only have like 1k in credit card debt. How can people not live off of 100k a year? It may not be a super comfortable fun time but you can do it without racking up 126k in credit card debt. Bonkers.
I mean technically it's debt until you pay the balance off - but if you are not paying your CC off every month it's time to do something THIS month.
He wasn't working for a year.
New York
Doesn't matter how much you make if you're bad with money you'll always be bad with money and vice versa
@@inthebooks3947everywhere in ny ain’t expensive but 100k ain’t a lot of money nowadays
Sorry, but that woman needs to work since all their kids are in school at this point. She does not have the luxury to stay at home with that much debt
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This is an out of control lifestyle and lack of budgeting problem.
We needed Dave Ramsey for this one
As a SAHM with littles still at home you just can't have ALL the things. You choose to sacrifice. I was just telling my hubby we need some new countertops, because I have wiped the pattern off the laminate!😂 We are 8 months away from living in a paid for house so I will keep wiping it and wear it like a badge of honor! Although we bought our house before things went crazy so I feel for working Moms today.
Yes! Eventually, things can be upgraded....or not. Good job choosing what is of important value for your family's future. People feel like that need to have it all, now. No, you don't.
The thing people forget is that staying at home IS the luxury.
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@@justlayingaround-j2cExactly!
1:20 _"Wow, $126k in credit card debt. What was the reason for that?"_
_"I was out of work for a year, to figure out some things..."_
_"So, what did you figure out in the end?"_
_"Arithmetic. If you only subtract, and do not add, you end up a big deep hole!"_
Why doesn’t the wife get a job while the kids are at school? Help your family out!
Lazy people that think 2 hours of house work a day is a full time job if she can speak spanish home depot pay her 20$ a hour with no other skills
She's looking! Nothing is a good fit. 😂
I'd get on the bus and see what jobs are out there available on the bus line. Start there.
@@jasonleatherwood2172you think 3 kids is 2 hrs of work a day? Delusional.
Women should stay home a care for the kids. No woman should work.
This is just me being ignorant about their whole situation:
I think the wife needs to see the kids starving before she stops making excuses to not working.
Pretty much! Anyone who chooses to stay home with school age kids is already a red flag but the cherry on top is letting it happen with that much debt. Even a part time waitress job would help.
Wife needs to get a job asap. At the local nursing home, Uber, grocery store or mall. She can do night shifts 3 twelve hours shifts at a nursing home
Transportation might be an issue with only one vehicle. Unless they can use public transportation or drop the other person off or carpool.
@@anndeecosita3586 She can work at the school problem closed. She can apply at the husbands job. Do something for christs sake. Get a job near the husbands job and they can commute together
Yep! Even taking on daycare kids would generate money almost immediately.
Thanks for sharing. It renews my focus in cutting up unused credit cards 💳
I’ve been a working woman for 38 years while raising 2 wonderful humans, finished my degree part time and worked 2 jobs. Husband did the same thing. I don’t have much sympathy for SAHMs in this kind of situation. If you can afford it, great. But to let things get this out of control - good grief! Marriage is a partnership, step it up!
Not everybody wants "stuff" badly enough to become a workaholic, and not everyone considers that an admirable trait. :)
@@mistiinseattleSounding like a typical lazy person not willing to help the family
@@mistiinseattle I see I hit a nerve, and you are assuming I work for stuff? I worked to put food on the table, help my kids through university and pay a mortgage on a modest bungalow. I work to change my family tree, I came from nothing. I would never sit home while my husband struggled to pay the bills. If we could afford it, I might choose to stay home and that would be ok.
@@mistiinseattle oh I forgot :)
Good luck with 3, u raised 2 and 2 jobs and a degree, like u have any spare time for them unless u have 48 hours a day
$126k in credit cards. I wouldn't be be able to breathe. I had to put $326 on a credit card once for a car tire when the bank turned off my debit card cause they thought there was fraud and I had anxiety about that.
How do you even acquire $126,000 worth in credit? Their credit score must be terrible and banks keep extending them loans?
Wife needs to go do UberEATS while kids are at school. She can easily make $100 a day. That would change their situation dramatically
She doesn't have a car
@@xfhnhhgjbvcfg she can drop him off and work
@@xfhnhhgjbvcfg No, she said he could take the bus, then she would have the car. The great thing about delivery is you can usually start in a few days.
@@suen5006 she could do Only Fans
@xfhnhhgjbvcfg With Doordash or Ubereats you make your own schedule. She could work nights when her husband doesn't work and is home with the kids.
He was out of work but kept the lifestyle up and now getting eaten alive by the interest. Why you need 6 months plus of living expenses saved up or more and to get back to work ASAP. He dug himself into financial insecurity and a neveretirment.
He's getting killed with 20-30% interest on those credit cards
That’s what I was thinking. Seems almost impossible.
But she said interest rates don't matter!
Yes😊😊😊
I listen to these calls to feel better about my situation
My husband and I are a one car family. He walks to work. I take the car. I'm starting a part time job tomorrow where I can walk to work so he can have the car sometimes. Many places will hire the "mom shift" to have someone to cover lunch breaks for the full timers. I've seen this at daycares and a grocery store, but I'm sure more places would. She should call around to any business walking distance away.
This is why I like Jade so much. She was one of us and now is hosting this show! If that doesn't say something to ya, nothing will. Well done Jade, keep it up for all of us. Btw, I did it too, debt free and loving it.
My entire monthly bill including rent is less than his Credit card monthly bill debt, and I support a family of 3.
I’m assuming house must be paid off and no student loans. Otherwise, what do you eat to keep monthly budget under $3500 for a family of 3?
Getting a job at a school can be ideal for this situation, because you have basically the same schedule as the kids. There are often paraprofessional positions available. Either that, or someone might need to work weekends.
The working on weekends isn’t happening, most people are too lazy to actually put forth that much effort to correct the situation.
I see people focus on toys vs necessities or savings. They own motorcycles, atv’s, boats, etc. and new flashy vehicles.
Probably banks own it, as they have loans and haven't paid it off yet
It seems like some people view those toys as necessities. In their minds it’s essential to have junk like that.
Cut up my CC in 2014. Never got another one. It's limit was only $300, and I still thought that was too much!
Good for you. Everyone not disciplined with having a credit card. I used a credit card and pay it off every month. Always spend base on my budget. Free points if you know what you doing. Sure it's a risk factor but I can control my emotions in spending
😂, I bet that on one blackjack hand.
@@truegrizzlesfan2292 good for you. I'm only good with budgeting with cash. If I use a card, I always spend too much.
The wife can work from home job. Remote..
No job for a year? Sounds pretty irresponsible to me. Momma wants the perfect job, instead of earning money.
Exactly. And apparently during that year-long vacation he was only open to the perfect job, too. And how exactly does it cost $126,000 (credit card debt) to live for one year? That's living pretty high on the hog for 2 unemployed people.
Pretty quick to judge with virtually no information or insight into these people whatsoever. Not a great way of going about things.
@Aki_Lesbrinco huh?
@@Aki_LesbrincoI can’t think of any possible explanation for having $125K in CC debt after a year out of work, can you?
She doesn't have a car. See how this works? 😍
They've made the mistake and now it's up to them to get themselves out of it. It can be done!!
Three kids and he didn't work for a year?
Simple math on those credit cards: $3500 / month minimum payment equates to about $42,000 / year and assuming 29% interest rate, about $36,000 of that is going to interest charges. I agree that the wife needs to go to work and 100% of her income needs to go to paying off those cards. I disagree with Rachel when she says don't worry about trying to get the interest rate down. This is an extreme situation and anything they can do to lower those interest rates will help.
I'm 50 and I have around 1100 in cc debt. These people are insane.
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Jobless for a year and still has “subscriptions”.
True Story
2018
I made $2300 a month take home
I had $11k cc debt
I was Paying $400 rent
I had no savings
2024
I make $4100 a month take home
I have $0 debt at all
I have no mortgage payment
I have $50k in savings
You're killing it!!
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2024 I’m doing 100% Better.
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And the wife just sat there didn't think to work and help chip in. Crazy I'm sure she's looking for a back door out.
70% of the time a man loses a job and is inactive a divorce is coming. 40% of the time he finds a job the divorce still comes. When the wife is in active the divorce rate decreases by 10%.
She had her excuses ready to go.
I wish people would stop attacking the wife. I think the family has the right intent. I was a latch kid in the 90s. Came home to no parents at home starting at 10 of age and I wish I had one parent and many kids from that decade suffer anxiety and other mental stuff because of that. I don't know what the guy does, but he could do a side hassle. Earn with Uber.
I work 9-3, 4 days a week (24 hrs/wk, no lunch break) and volunteer 3 hrs every week on my day off. Works well with the kids’ school schedule. Luckily I don’t need benefits. The job was listed as PT or FT. I told them when I was available and they said they could do that. Most places would never agree to this schedule, but you’ll never know unless you ask.
What about Bankruptcy?...They sound like a good candidate???
🙄
Not gonna lie but I love this show, real motivation
I would almost sell the $30,000 car and get 2 $10,000 cars. That way you’re $10,000 less in debt and now you have more options for your wife to work since you have 2 vehicles.
He doesn't have $20K, and at this point it will be very hard to borrow $20K because he's already saturated with debt. If any bank lends him $20K, the interest rate would be so high that the payment would be more than what he's paying on the $30K car.
OMG, seriously don’t know how people get into debt? The hosts of the show were right to say that they and their spending habits are at fault. It’s not rocket science to balance your finances. My husband and I are college graduates in education without any student loans and our son is graduating with his business degree next year without any student debt. We pay all our cars in cash, we pay our bills on time, and we don’t buy anything we don’t have the money for. OMG, it’s not hard to manage finances. We’re both 55 years old and our net worth is over a million in cash and continually growing. People who are in trouble financially don’t live below their means, buy things that they don’t have money for, and don’t know how to save their earnings. Both my husband and I knew how to hold money even before we got married 31 years ago.
Keep piling up! As the saying goes, at some point, it's the "bank's problem"! 👍
Buy a bedroom full of rice and beans. Max out the cards and bankrupt it gone over night
Until they sue you and garnish your wages in certain states
Wages!?! lol you're just assuming I'm working. Pure projection!
If you can’t pay it off and they are maxed out what’s the point in paying at all ?
0:55 _"... $100k a year"_
_"Does that include your wife?"_
_"I don't know her price"_
( o.o)
Could you ever put together a way to do 1 or 2 year follow ups with people who we see calling in and find out where they got to down the road. Would be interesting to hear the successful and the not so successful from their follow up perspective.
I got up to about 2,800$ in credit card debt while I was working at a part time job because I could only earn enough to pay my bills, and I had several car repairs that put me right at that limit. But as soon as I got a good paying job, I had that paid off in about three months. 2,800$ caused me extreme stress - 126K? I'd die of a heart attack before that point!
clearly, they have a lifestyle problem if they have managed to rack up this much debt.
my personal solution here would be to move the house and cars into a trust owned by an LLC and then declare Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
That gets rid of all the credit card debt while protecting the house and cars.
The downside is this destroys your credit score for the next 10 years. but that is probably a good thing as it gives you time to re-learn how to manage your finances.
Fully agree. Bankruptcy is the only way out in these dire circumstances. They are not going to get anywhere with their income vs all that cc interest.
This show is always one solution (work more!) for every debt problem. Some problems require thinking outside the box.
You have to disclose property (real and personal) transfers as part of the bankruptcy filing. The look back period is 2 years.
There’s no need to move his house or car into a LLC. Both are financed anyway so changing ownership would be challenging. Most bankruptcy cases allow the family the keep their house and vehicle if they are considered sensible for their income level… but I entirely agree, bankruptcy is the way forward for this family. Also forcing them into cash budgeting and living wholly within their means.
My credit card deb is 0...!..my credit score 804...!
Do you want a cookie for that? A pat on the back?
Your minimum credit card payments are more than my mortgage and you have about a third of our household income?? Good job, bro...
My baby sitter has three kids. 6,11,14 years old with a beater car. She clean houses and baby Sitting and homeschool her kids. I would love to help her out and let her kids stay over While watching my 4 months baby. Coz she is trying hard. We respect that.There is a will there is a way!
Why not work from home for 4 hours a day? I know many people that work from home! A car won't be an issue then. I would be working while my kids were asleep if I owed that kind of credit card debt. That is scary.
These videos make me feel better about my terrible debt😂
The Annoyance on the face on the yellow every time the other womans interrupted her was GOLDÉÑ
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I feel for this guy. I hope theyre in a better place now
The wife can work nights while husband is at home at from work
doesn't make sense for a couple to work opposite shifts, when do they get time together
@@KS-cl8br it makes perfect sense when you’re $126,000 in debt .
@@KS-cl8brIt does if you have to survive. Plus it's not forever, it's just until they get out of debt or close to it
@@KS-cl8br When theyre out of debt
Just let it go to collections then negotiate for ten to 15 cents on the dollar. Then hire a credit repair specialist to get the collections removed from your report
If you're a believer, pray for such families 👍Send the word👌Bottomline, such financial decisions may become catalyst to divorce and possibly worse.
5:01 Why is it a delicate issue to suggest that a woman get a job?
It's so weird how they approach it, like it's not biblical or something
Because there could’ve been personal issues as to why she hasn’t yet, like a disability or health issue etc
They’ve Co-created the situation, they can collaborate on the solution.
Sell the car, get a beater. Mom needs to work, if she is flipping burgers or cleaning or... doesn't matter
The mom needs to get a job. We understand you have children, but find a job that coincides with the children school hours. Go be a substitute teacher in the schools you will be within the school hours and get off the holidays and days they have off to be at home. It sounds like she has got comfortable not working, but the best way to get out of debt is to contribute. They got it!
Get both parents working. Common sense
I’m late to the comment section. When my kids were young I got a job working at their schools. I worked as a yard duty, drop off/ pick up support for the car ride line, front desk support, and eventually an aide in the classroom. The checks were small but I did not have to pay for daycare, and I had their same schedules for long breaks. I wasn’t able to help my husband with the mortgage but I did pay all the utilities and help pay for family fun times like vacations. I did this until my children were independently able to get themselves to and from school. It was better than staying at home and kept me employed.
I love the videos with Jade🥰
The wife has many excuses.
Of course. If she can get away with staying at home, why would she not?
All the Married couples I know are broke or in debt. All the single Women I know are broke or in debt. All the single Men in know are do financially great and are prospering. LOL....
Im in a relationship and we have zero debt and doing well but I WORK and don't leech off him.
These are the stories that make you thank only having 4 or 5k in cc debt ... I don't even know how people get that much credit card debt because I can't even get limits that high a quarter of that amount ... I guess that has always been a blessing looking back on it tho.
It doesn’t seem like his wife is gonna get a job. They both are at fault letting that credit cards debt to build that high. Out of work that long and not doing nothing is crazy to me.
She should consider a job at her children’s school. She could work as a paraprofessional, nurse’s aide or even substitute teacher.
Or even in a "man's" job
I love Jade! She’s always so stylish! Go head’ Jade! 🎉❤
Inés, I may be off here, but if you are bilingual, you could make a ton of money interpreting and tutoring! Be willing to work and you have so much income potential.
I could tell jade immediately was thinking “why isn’t the wife working” I love jade, I think she’s the future Dave Ramsey just more modern and less traditional. She’s a do what it takes to get it done type of gal
Me here with $1070 on a credit card that will be paid off in 4 days…I feel so bad for some people on the show. I’ve been in worse situations.
Jeez, $126'000 owed on credit cards. That will never get paid off. Not a hope.... She'll die in debt.
Lol 😂
I'm not an advocate for bankruptcy, but...
Does the Ramsey team not consider bankruptcy on principle, or is takling this debt head on really the best route? Because to me, it seems bankruptcy would be the best bet.
I would rather go without that put stuff on credit cards. The bill has not been paid just pushed back. Then have to work extra to clear it. Emergency savings account is the way forward.
Love the sweater “Go to Therapy” 😂
Debt consolidation can work ONLY after they have a game plan and know the root of the problem. Otherwise, like a root, it will just come back. Consolidation makes it easier to follow through with their plan, a tool, not a solution by itself.
I didn't hear Rachel and Jade ask about the house worth and how much owed. Maybe, if they have enough value in the house, they could sell to pay off credit card debt.
Freedom Journey = No credit cards and debit is the Aim!!! Journey is tough....
Ooop...Let me go make this CC payment really quickly...🏃🏾♀️
The problem is that cars don't generally hold their value.
"$126k in student loan debt? That's bad! Wait credit card?! That's absolute Hell on Earth!"