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I am your co-host, Christina Dodson.

On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith.

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So we're continuing our series on six tips for surviving the holidays. The holidays can be so stressful for so many reasons and it can

be really hard on our marriages. So we just want to help people by giving them these tips.

We want you to come out of the holiday season, really celebrating it for what it is and staying

happily married and connected

come January. And so in this episode, we're going to be talking about a tip to survive the

holidays, which is to spend wisely. So Dr. Kim, obviously every couple and family is going to be

completely different with completely different incomes and all of that. So how would you define

spending wisely

with that in mind since different people can afford to spend different amounts?

I think the first thing would be just not going into debt, you know, do that. And not only not

going into debt. Don't strap yourself so much that you spend so much on something that you're

not able to do some of the things that you

would maybe be more beneficial or even at the holiday season not you know to be generous and

to have an opportunity to give and so you strap yourself so much maybe you're not going to debt

but you spent so much that you never have the opportunity to enjoy being generous during the

holiday season too i think those would be.

So I'm not going to debt.

We always every year, I probably didn't do it early and that's probably when we do it now

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