Back to the Basics: Fast Cash and Emergency Fund

DIY Money | Personal Finance, Budgeting, Debt, Savings, Investing

Bleav + Quint Tatro & Daniel Czulno, CFP® a passionate look at everything money from budgeting, savings, investing, stocks, bonds, debt. For those that enjoy Dave Ramsey, Jill On Money, Smart Money, BiggerPockets it’s worth a listen!

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4.8 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Quint and Logan talk about where to apply your extra margin starting with fast cash and an emergency fund.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Daniel. Thanks for listening to DIY Money. If you haven't already, be sure to give us a five-star review on iTunes so your friends know that they can learn from the show. Now, enjoy the show.
0:15.2	Welcome back. Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to another edition of DIY Money. DIY Money.
0:19.8	I wish I got it. I know just a couple weeks ago, you and I were on, we talked about the five Fs, we talked about the goals that we had for the new year.
0:26.1	Obviously, this episode is going to come out in the new year with our back to the basic episodes that we're going to get to in just a second.
0:32.1	But tell me one of the goals that you've set.
0:34.6	Yeah, so I don't. I don't have them yet. Why?
0:37.9	Okay.
0:38.9	And I'll tell you why.
0:39.9	This is abnormal.
0:41.7	Very abnormal for me.
0:42.4	It's not normal.
0:49.5	Because I start this process and did start this process around Thanksgiving or even before sitting down thinking about the new year.
0:51.2	But I found that when I started doing that, I leapfrogged the biggest fitness goal that I have,
0:58.5	which again, we're cutting this. I don't know when this will come out, but we're cutting this on
1:01.9	the 27th. So I run this race on January the 11th. So I stopped. I said I cannot, I'm not going to
1:10.0	set these yet.
1:12.7	So I run the race on the 11th.
1:21.1	My wife and I, her birthday is on the 12th, and we're going to enjoy some days off, just her and I, which will be wonderful.
1:24.6	That's when I'll just ponder those. That's when you'll go into depth on this.
1:26.2	That's good.
1:26.8	Well, I, you know, I've done the same
1:28.1	process and kind of have those. And obviously, we have the five different areas. My big one, my focus
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