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Welcome to So Money, everybody. I'm Farnoese Terabi, July 19, 2024. How's everybody doing?

What's going on over here? Well, I just got off the phone, in fact, with a Good Morning America producer.

They wanted to get my opinion on something.

It turns out the Wall Street Journal did a story on what they are coining as stealth spending or stealth shopping, which just off the

bat sounds like people are raining in their spending and maybe that's what the

article is about. No, the article is actually about an uptick in couples that are hiding purchases from one another,

big ticket purchases.

So if you buy an eye watch or you go to the store and you buy an expensive dress or you

order from the web you try everything you can to hide this from your partner

because you're not comfortable with having a conversation about how much you're spending on personal items.

And I thought to myself, you know, back in the old days when I was reporting on personal finance

as a hard hat journalist, I would not call this stealth spending. This was called financial infidelity.

And the article, I'll link to it in our show notes, was I thought taking a very light-handed

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