Travis (Big Yeti Kelsey)
Appearances
American History Tellers
Buffalo Soldiers | The Brass Letters | 1
Yeah, I mean, the old dad shoes suggest otherwise, but those are the I'm-out-the-game shoes right there.
The Ramsey Show
Slow and Steady Wins the Race Every Time
So we started with about $150,000. Right now, currently, we make about $135,000. And in the middle there for a big chunk, it goes up to about $250,000. Okay, cool. What do y'all do for a living? We're both teachers. I'm a teacher and a coach. She's a math coach, actually.
The Ramsey Show
Slow and Steady Wins the Race Every Time
Yes, I was in retail management for almost 20 years, 18 years.
The Ramsey Show
Slow and Steady Wins the Race Every Time
Well, we were... doing like most people, I guess, and spending every bit of raise that we got, and just, you know, we could afford the payment, so we'd buy it, and we had the payment, and then we came to realize that we're making, you know, what felt like a ton of money back then, and we didn't have any money left over. So one of my friends, actually, told me about this Dave Ramsey guy.
The Ramsey Show
Slow and Steady Wins the Race Every Time
I came home, and I told her about this Dave Ramsey guy, and we went and bought your book. And she actually read it first in basically one evening, and she said it sounded great. Next day, I read it. We both said it sounded great, and we just went with it. Whoa.
The Ramsey Show
Slow and Steady Wins the Race Every Time
Well, we paid aggressively. We paid off all our consumer debt, $92,000 of it in 18 months to two years. And we were progressively paying for the house until my son got into about junior high age. And we realized we wanted to spend some money on vacations and some experiences with him. So we kind of stopped aggressively paying on the house. We were down to...
The Ramsey Show
Slow and Steady Wins the Race Every Time
How long did we – we had about $70,000 left on the house, and we kind of just were cruising on it. And actually, thanks to my mother-in-law, she just actually paid off the last $70,000 for us. Whoa! Wow! Pretty cool. Absolutely, yes.
The Ramsey Show
Slow and Steady Wins the Race Every Time
We were excited. We read that book. She read it first. I read it the next day. I was like, man, let's get started. We were excited.
The Ramsey Show
Slow and Steady Wins the Race Every Time
Eight hours of Dave Ramsey podcast. Oh, God.