“You Suck at Taking Care of Your Wife!”

[Music] brought to you by the every dooll app start budgeting for free today Michael is with us Michael is in Davenport Iowa hey Michael welcome to the Ramsey Show hey how you doing better than I deserve man what's up good to hear all right so this basically is just a question on my wife's spending habits and my saving habits I'm a hog farmer out here and right now I currently own three Hog Farms and and I own one house it's all paid for I have zero debt to my name 31 years old and the big question is my wife she wants to buy another house the problem with the house that we have now which I don't have a problem with it I grew up in it it's too close to our hog sheds so the smell is a big problem well so we rent a home in town that's about 5 miles from the farm to kind of just to pleaser to get the smell she don't she doesn't like the smell well the house that we rent the landlord passed away about 2 months ago and he left in his will that we you know have rights to buy the house from his daughter well his daughter doesn't want to rent she wants to sell the house to us I have saved up a lot of money and I do not want to buy a house I would rather buy a hog shed now I don't own the Hogs a comp owns the Hogs they rent the buildings off of me and I take care of the pigs I have saved up 431,000 right now is what I have and I would rather go another two years and buy another hog shed to put on the farm and the hog sheds do two things the company pays the bill pays the rent on the first of every month or never a day late which is good that's why I don't rent the people Michael how how long you been married four years okay all right there's a buddy of mine comedian has a wonderful saying happy wife happy life so far we're there no you're not no you're not you're a hog farmer that's gone Hog Wild all you think about is Hogs and I love that I think you're a business guy and you're great at what you do and you got it dialed in and it don't bother you and lick your wife ain't going to stay there brother she done told you that you need to listen to her I need to be looking at buying this house you need to write a check for this and the house is only 45,000 It's a Wonderful shut up it's only $45,000 you can make her happy for $45,000 and you're buying a $400,000 hog shed Michael well listen to this woman doesn't ask for much and absolutely and to be honest with you she's she's the one that shows up when the help doesn't yeah well I mean she did marry you yeah knowing knowing that she was going to live next to a hog shed so I mean you must be a prized you have kids Michael she's coming in there she's she's awesome man look at you wow dude by the house I do have uh I have twins that is three and our oldest daughter is six oh yeah is she home with them all day yes yeah yes she works part-time you're you're a great farmer and a great businessman you know your numbers inside and out you you you take care of all the details I can hear it I've worked with entrepreneurs for 30 years I can hear everything about your business acument I think you're very very good at what you do you suck at taking care of your wife you need to buy her a house a lot to learn you need to buy her a house I know and Michael I'll say this I feel you're getting beat up on this call there was a lot of eyes I saved up this and I did this and I did this and I did that and you guys are a team and part of a team is there's an A and A B it's not just an A and bring her in she has as much weight and as much value to the conversation and what how she wants to live her life as much as you and it I'm I'm poking F I'm poking fun at you but I'm I'm having fun with you but in all in all truth she's not asking for much and you you can easily provide what she's asking for she's not asking to buy a $4 million house correct correct she's not asking you to sell off your hog farm correct and she's not even asking you to slow down because the 45,000 is not even going to slow down you're not going to build that shed within $445,000 estimate anyway probably no a new shed now is the dirt working everything is about 930,000 yeah yeah so we got a little while to go anyway so buy buying this house is not going to throw your goals off is my point you're you're on the on your business goals and um and what I have figured out in doing this for this marriage thing for 43 years and doing this business thing here at Ramsey for 35 of those is that the best thing I can do is have no drama at home cuz I got enough of it at work gotcha and it makes me more valuable when I'm at work yes yes and amen I know I'm convinced one of the reasons that Ramsey is successful as it is is that your mother is no drama yeah and doesn't ask for much and neither does Michael's wife she doesn't ask for much right and she would feel valued in what she brings to the table too and there's that extension to say yes like listen to her Michael we were looking at an investment thing um week ago and walk through it all and and she's like I don't care and I said I know you don't care but we're going to walk through it MH cuz I want to see if your eyes roll M I want to see how I want to see what you really you really do care but you're not going to say it so I want I want to see we'll see if you shift in your seat I want to watch your body language while you're looking at this cuz I'm going to you know and cuz I can tell what she's thinking then we've been married long enough so that and there's a about who can find a virtuous wife for her worth is far above rubies the heart of her husband safely trusts her and he will have no lack of gain proverbs 31 it is a financial principle if you'd like to have no lack of gain listen to a virtuous wife not a Cinderella not a princess but a virtuous wife and everybody as you said has a vote and then we make good decisions together that's right and now you everyone from California should move to Iowa and buy a 45,000 house that's unbelievable that's so fun go go Michael enjoy it you guys will make it a home it's GNA be great I'm excited for you guys I love it that's fabulous good for you good for you and what a great business guy he really is it's wonderful create your free every dooll budget today the simplest way to budget for your life