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A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.

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Dave Ramsey
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 3
Author
Motivational Speaker
Radio Personality
Antioch
Tennessee
Instead
Went
Wonder
Powerful
Money
Wondering
Budget
Budgets
Telling

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