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backslash one thing. So today on the awesome marriage podcast, we're going to be ending up,

wrapping up our little mini series on money tips that saved my marriage. This week we're going to

be talking about the third and final tip that we recommend for all marriages and its goal setting. So Dr. Kim, what are some of the different types of goals that you can set with

money when it comes to your marriage and your family household finances? Let me just go to the ones

that we've kind of done. One of our goals is always to save, to try to save 10%, put that aside for saving,

invest, have money to invest then for the future

and to, you know, see your planning for the future.

And one of the things that we did, especially Orlando Marriage when we, first or second house

we bought was not that big a house, but we could only furnish.

We had about four rooms that were furnished.

And so we made a list of the things that are priorities of what we wanted to buy to furnish

those rooms out over whatever period of time it took us.

And so what helped us with that is having those goals and having that list when we had

extra money, we didn't go and buy something impulsively

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