509: You Can't Buy Your Way to Better Habits by Kristin Wong

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🗓️ 8 February 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Why do we tend to default to spending money to fix bad habits? Kristin Wong shares a better approach. Episode 509: You Can't Buy Your Way to Better Habits by Kristin Wong (Save Thousands & Financial Happiness). Kristin Wong is a freelance writer and journalist who writes for Lifehacker, Mentalfloss, and New York Magazine. She frequently covers travel, personal finance, and human behavior. Kristin launched her own blog, www.thewildwong.com, to write about life as a work-from-anywhere freelancer. She aims to help other creative entrepreneurs navigate the tricky world of freelancing, from managing money to traveling the world to staying productive and getting stuff done. Kristin is a self-professed money geek and is slated to publish a book about personal finance in March of 2018. The original post is located here: https://www.thewildwong.com/spending-money-better-habits Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com & in The O.L.D. Podcasts Facebook Group! and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This Winter, memberships will never be the same again.
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0:18.0	Geographic restrictions and teasencies apply 18 plus.
0:20.0	This is optimal finance daily.
0:22.0	Episode 509.
0:24.0	You can't buy your way to better habits.
0:26.3	By Kristen Wong of the Wild Wong.com.
0:29.3	And I'm Dan your host.
0:30.3	Happy Thursday and thanks so much for being here. as always. This is where I read to you
0:34.7	from some of the best personal finance blogs on the planet. And we've been lucky to have sponsors
0:39.6	for the last few weeks, so today I'm going to give you a break from promotional content and get right
0:44.3	to Kristen's Post as we optimize your life.
0:51.6	You can't buy your way to better habits by Kristen Wong of the Wild Wong.com.
0:57.0	After going at it a little too hard in December, I decided to make January a dry month.
1:03.0	Yep, 30 days, no beer, no cabernet, no overpriced craft cocktails.
1:08.0	I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss it.
1:10.0	You know the old cliche of being single and seeing couples everywhere? You know they're happy and
1:14.8	holding hands and rubbing their love all up in your face? That's how I've started to feel about people
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