As a pedestrian, I’m glad not to support big bike chain lube, I’m saving dozens of pennies annually
Oh, you’re one of those shills for the shoe-leather industry! 😜
Dave Ramsey is an out of touch asshole though.
Honestly if someone were to have said that garbage to him 40 years ago he prolly would have called it unAmerican and communistical.
It is weird to watch the ethical scoliosis happen in real time over the decades.
Insurance payments for teenage boys are INSANE. $100-150 is the usual but my buddy is paying literally $300 a month on a year 200X Tahoe that he bought for $700 and fixed himself. Its the cheapest option on his families insurance and his parents won’t let him switch.
That’s not even payments that’s INSURANCE.
Yup, when I was 18-23 I was the primary driver of our car, but we put the insurance and name under my gf (now wife) and it was half the cost if I had gotten the insurance instead.
Never buying a vehicle I can’t pay upfront for again if I can help it. Hated those payments the first time I had to go through it. I do more real work with my 80’s era pickup than the yuppies who need their “toy haulers” do that sit almost twice as high. Plus, once I get the diesel swapped in and I’m running biodiesel, I have less emissions as well. Did you know that modern American diesels are so tuned for regular diesel that they can’t run biodiesel? I assume the Euro models can though.
Usually biodiesel compatibility is a function of fuel pumps and injectors, the high performance ones are $$$. I wouldn’t assume Euro models are biodiesel compatible, the VW diesels weren’t after the ‘Pumpe düse’ era.
I assume the euro stuff is all compatible because biodiesel is more common there and they have different emissions standards. Material wise, you just need synthetic rubbers, which have been standard since the 90’s. The tuning issue comes from biodiesel being slightly more viscous. This effects injector diameter and injector pump pressure. The ignition point is also slightly different and timing can be adjusted, but I’ve never bother. Older diesels had enough tolerance that these things never mattered much, but newer ones aren’t rated for more then 20% and I haven’t heard of someone who’s actually tested that.
It’s also less relevant as HVO based diesel also comes from veg oil and is much, much closer to regular diesel then biodiesel is.
If you pay 500$ a month for 30 years at 5% interest compounded monthly you would contribute $180k and would have $416,129 so not really a million. You would need a little less than 9.5% interest to get a million. 2% interest is only getting you $246k which when you take into account inflation 2-3% normal average minus 5% one of the higher realistic interests that is what you are actually making .
I paid $830/month for a moderately priced car at only 2.9% for a few years. 1/3 my current yearly salary in full. It wasn’t smart, but I beat inflation at that rate. That car let me and my wife travel so much in our early marriage and it was so worth it. The car is more expensive now then when I bought it.
I love that car and it brought me joy. It’s paid off now.
Tomorrow is not promised. Save for the future but don’t neglect being happy today. Go live a little.
I was looking for a new car a few years ago, but i didn’t have to rush, i didn’t have a car for almost two years and just used my work car if i really needed one. Then covid hit and i was still sometimes browsing cars. People were selling the cars they no longer can afford and i was fucking shocked to see people selling cars saying that the monthly pay off is like 1200 or shit like that. Who would think that is a good idea? If you can afford it there is no reason to pay it off, and if you can’t, it’s too expensive. That is just the car payment, no insurance or road fees or anything.
$1200 is ridiculous. That’s how much my mortgage is.
Memes circulating with this dude right now, even if positioning him as a chud, are a way to launder this dude as just a legit money guy. Sure, he has some basic, broad financial advice you can consider if you can see through all the Jesus and have no other options, but more than anything else, he’s a vile human being.
Eat religious shit dave ramsey.
The hell are these people driving? I pay $240/mo for a goddamn Lexus.
Could also be their shit credit rating playing into that.
I also have shit credit though
You pay $240/mo for a new Lexus? What was that? 12 years financing? Or did you pay most of the cost upfront?
I didn’t buy it new, it had 70k miles. But there’s people itt talking about how their used car payments are 2-3x that
That makes a lot more sense! Tbh I’m not surprised people are paying that much considering how used cars have been extra expensive the past few years. Couple that with high interest rates and you get large payments. Some people have 10% interest or more, guaranteed.
I guess I bought at the right time. It was during covid inflation but it may have gotten worse since then
Hah, look at this guy that doesn’t even have a cybertruck!
sure, maybe. but FUCK Dave Ramsey.
I’m out of the loop. What’d they do?
It drives me crazy when i get spam that says they can save me money on my car insurance
O rly? How you gonna beat $0?
I told one of these spam callers that my license has been legally revoked. It has been almost 15 years since I last got one of those calls. They used to be something that happened, at least, a few times per day.
In Denmark it is required by law that you have a bare-minimum insurance (to cover if you damage someone or something else). Is this not required in your country?
I don’t own a car.
I realized I had asked a stupid question after posting.
Dave Ramsey is a hack.
broken clock tho
All you need to know about Dave Ramsey: i worked on his Jaguar XK.
Is that a particularly expensive jaguar? When I was car shopping I saw some jags for 20k or less so owning a Jag means absolutely nothing when it comes to wealth.
The trick is that it costs an absolute fortune to maintain them, that’s why they’re cheap used. I believe there Is a saying that goes something like “the only car more expensive than a luxury car is a used luxury car”
He’s right for most people first beginning to improve their financial health. He has probably gotten more people out of debt than any other ‘guru’. If that’s a hack, so be it, it works.
He once fired a pregnant employee because she wasn’t married and therefore must have had premarital sex. They’ve fired 9 people for pre marital sex. Wacky
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Is he the idiot who demands you only pay for things in cash and store it in labeled envelopes?
Doesn’t that 1950s(?idk) advice kinda work for some people?
“Demands” though that’s odd
Nah he’s alright. There is no nuance in his advice but for the majority of his listeners that’s probably a good thing.
Yeah he has some shit personally takes and I hate the way he runs his company. He does give pretty decent financial advice though
I can give better advice in a similarly easy to consume manner, applicable to most.
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Invest in a low cost target date fund. Look at Vanguard target date funds for examples and pick a year close to your expected retirement date.
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Pay your highest interest debt before lower.
Both of these pieces of advice make you more money than doing what Ramsay says and are equally easy to understand.
Yes, but do people do it? No.
Do people actually do what Ramsey suggests, even if it isn’t mathematically perfect? Yes.
You’re under estimating the human factor.
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I’ve never understood buying a car on credit. My car’s 17 years old now. Bought it when it was 8 years old. Insurance is €390/yr.
Liquidity. Buying a car on credit is mostly stupid, but there are cases when it makes some sense. My last car loan was 3.54%. My combined accounts were earning ~8%. Paying cash in that case would be throwing away money. Well, throwing away money on top of wasting it on a car.
I’m doing the same thing, but I still don’t understand it. Why are creditors offering 3.54% car loans instead of just getting 8% themselves?
I have never owned a car that did not already belong to 2 family members prior. Surprisingly, I have yet to be kicked down the social ladder and sweep dung for a living.
Also, used cars are like 3000€ here. I have no idea of used cars, but at some point having them be serviced every year should be cheaper than monthly payments, right?
