This is Optimal Finance Daily, episode 1079, My Biggest Money Mistakes that I'm glad I made.

Part 2. Wholesale Club by Kallen Bruce of Money Minnie blog. And I'm Dan, I'm your host.

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My biggest money mistakes that I'm glad I made, part two, wholesale club by

Caitlin Bruce of money mini blog.com. It's time for another mistake.

Actually, I'm not planning on making another mistake this is a

mistake I already made. Last time I wrote about my failed ventures in network

marketing and today we're talking about a money mistake I made in my first year of marriage, my wife and I decided to join

a wholesale warehouse, direct buy to be exact. Maybe you've heard of it. It cost us a lot of money,

I'll tell you how much in a moment, but I'm still glad we did it, and here's why.

The high cost of saving little.

My wife and I had only been married for a few months when we received a postcard from

direct by offering a free tour of their showroom.

A free tour? That sounded painless, so I called to schedule it and a few days later we were there.

As we walked into the showroom we saw all kinds of furniture, home products,

and basically anything you could imagine that would build or furnish a home. We looked around

for a while and then they brought us into a room for a video presentation of what exactly

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