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bohemianish t1_je3xrjr wrote

Two options:

Buy envelopes, write the category names on them, store cash in them. Very DIY.

Pay for budgeting software/app that offers the digital equivalent of envelopes. Still DIY to a degree because you have to set up and maintain the categories, with the added benefit of not having to deal with cash.

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lunaticloser t1_je3wu69 wrote

Ok maybe I'm too European to understand this but why would you pay a business money to help you put your money in envelopes Couldn't you like... Buy 1000 envelopes or whatever and do it yourself?

I'm really really just confused about the business model here. Are they financial advisors? Are they a company that sells envelopes? I've never heard of anything like this hence the confusion.

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wakka55 t1_je3vro4 wrote

(Stupid) Question: For something like car insurance, are they mailing cash? Or is the cash just symbolically in the envelope and gets deposited back into the bank in time for a normal check to clear? Or what? (I have been autopay everything for decades so I have no idea how this works)

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CassandraVindicated t1_je3vh8u wrote

It also depends on the value. If that number we are seeing is just the value of the processed gold, there is likely more value in the raw nuggets itself. It's be better if it were and all jangly put pure nuggets, but still.

I hope they do take that money and invest it, kind of like a gambler building up a nest egg.

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spotted-cat t1_je3oz9l wrote

It wouldn’t kill their career — they’d gain the vote of the entire green party. Plus, even if they did it’d be hard to enforce anyway — there’d totally be a black market beef market. Like if people already have a shit-ton of beef cows the government could not possibly stop them all from slaughtering them all at once and selling it off to friends and family.

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