So money episode 1172 asked Farnoosh

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Welcome back to so money everybody ask Farnoosh Friday March 12, 2021

I'm your host Farnoosh Tarabi coming up shortly my co-host Adam Ariema editor in chief of next advisor

We're going to talk about some big issues like can I buy a house should I buy a house and some advice?

We would give ourselves in our 30s and also answering a listeners question about health savings accounts and whether we should

Take advantage of them and what's the benefit before we get to that?

I want to highlight some of the episodes that we did this week

Maybe listen to Monday's episode with Julie Skelfo and how she a New York City

Professional mom of three stopped shopping on Amazon raise your hand if you

Think you spend too much money with Amazon whether that's on Amazon calm perhaps you shop at Whole Foods

Maybe Zappos we learned how far-reaching Amazon is on that episode and how

One individual in this case Julie has managed to I guess boycott Amazon and you know

We talk about why that was important for her this episode was not about how to necessarily cancel Amazon

Although I get there is that sentiment out there

But really at the end of the show was about how to spend with more conviction how to align our financial choices more

With our values. So if you believe in worker right if you believe in narrowing the wealth gap leaving a smaller carbon footprint on the world

You might want to rethink some of the vendors some of the merchants that you shop with and if you also want to support

Minority owned businesses small business owners mom and pop shops

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