Dave Ramsey's Complete Guide To Money: The Handbook of Financial Peace University

by Dave Ramsey

Budget Committee Meeting: NERD RULES 1. Write up the budget draft beforehand. Then, bring it to the meeting, have your say, and shut up! 2. This is a meeting, not a weekend summit. You’ve only got the Free Spirit’s attention for about seventeen minutes, so make them count! 3. You have to let the Free Spirit mess with your budget! This isn’t your time to tell the Free Spirit what the budget is; this is your time to work with your spouse to make a budget you both agree on. Budget Committee Meeting: FREE SPIRIT RULES 1. You must COME TO THE MEETING! 2. You have to talk in the meeting. This means mature input. 3. You need to change something on the Nerd’s budget draft. This is not the Nerd’s budget; it’s your family’s budget. Take some ownership by tweaking the Nerd’s draft. 4. You can never again say these six words: “Whatever you want to do, honey.” That’s a cop-out. You’ve got to stick in there and make the budget work together.

Budget Comitee Meeting Rules