{"id":11106,"date":"2025-01-21T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=11106"},"modified":"2025-01-20T18:20:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T01:20:56","slug":"when-budgeting-doesnt-work-turn-to-your-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/when-budgeting-doesnt-work-turn-to-your-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"When \u201cBudgeting\u201d Doesn\u2019t Work, Turn to Your Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/12\/budgeting-a-magic-word\/\">We once discussed how \u201cbudgeting\u201d is a magic phrase<\/a> in our hobby because it\u2019s a simple response to many financial questions that doesn\u2019t illicit any follow up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are questions that need a different answer though, so let me present today&#8217;s phrase: \u201cMy boss makes me\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Q: Why do you want to split this large gas transaction into two weird payment amounts?<br>A: My boss makes me<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Q: Why do you need 18 different email addresses?<br>A: My boss makes me<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Q: Why do you want to expedite this request?<br>A: My boss makes me<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Q: why are you using four different loyalty accounts?<br>A: My boss makes me<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Q: Why do you want to apply the upgrade after booking instead of at booking?<br>A: My boss makes me<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Q: Why are you flying from IAH-LAX via JAX and IAD?<br>A: My boss makes me<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Q: Why don\u2019t you just drop that box in our self-service drop over there?<br>A: (While carrying a box full of $28,000 in gold) My boss makes me hand it to a person<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Q: Why do you waste time reading MEAB?<br>A: My boss makes me<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a nice Tuesday!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"817\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1cfeb026-3fb5-40e8-9435-5a7c2cafd88e-8334-000003606f36c8d3_file-817x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11105\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1cfeb026-3fb5-40e8-9435-5a7c2cafd88e-8334-000003606f36c8d3_file-817x1024.jpg 817w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1cfeb026-3fb5-40e8-9435-5a7c2cafd88e-8334-000003606f36c8d3_file-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1cfeb026-3fb5-40e8-9435-5a7c2cafd88e-8334-000003606f36c8d3_file-768x962.jpg 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1cfeb026-3fb5-40e8-9435-5a7c2cafd88e-8334-000003606f36c8d3_file.jpg 1157w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 817px) 100vw, 817px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Why are you wearing denim on denim? My boss made me. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We once discussed how \u201cbudgeting\u201d is a magic phrase in our hobby because it\u2019s a simple response to many financial questions that doesn\u2019t illicit any<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11106"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11113,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11106\/revisions\/11113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}