713: Ask Farnoosh, How do you stop yourself from being a compulsive shopper and start saving money?
So Money with Farnoosh Torabi
Farnoosh Torabi
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
How do you tackle finances with your fiance when your boyfriend makes half of what you make?
How do you stop yourself from being a compulsive shopper and start saving money?
Taking your Investopedia course and I'm at the savings module. Should my husband and I save for our son's college education in a 529 account or a high interest savings account?
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| 0:00.0 | So Money Episode 713, Ask Farnush with special co-host, Jennifer Whitehurst. |
| 0:05.6 | You're listening to So Money, with award-winning Money Guru Farnush Karabi. |
| 0:11.4 | Each day, get a 30 minute dose of financial inspiration from the world's top business minds, authors, influencers, and from Farnuus herself. |
| 0:21.0 | Looking for ways to save on gas or double your double coupons? |
| 0:25.0 | Sorry, you're in the wrong place. |
| 0:27.0 | Seeking profound ways to live a richer, happier life. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to So Money. |
| 0:34.0 | You're listening to So Money. You're listening to So Money, everyone. |
| 0:36.0 | Welcome to the show, Friday, April 6, 2018. |
| 0:40.0 | Some of you might be on spring break. |
| 0:42.0 | We just ended spring break here in Brooklyn. |
| 0:45.0 | Evan and I went away to Fort Lauderdale from last Friday through Monday, so a little bit of a, |
| 0:52.0 | you know, a little hop skip away three hour flight directly to |
| 0:55.2 | Fort Lauderdale I just needed to get out of town let me tell you it's been too long of a |
| 0:58.9 | winter cooped up in the house in our apartment and parents you might relate if you have two kids |
| 1:05.5 | that are close in age and they're not yet you know independent and they're just |
| 1:12.1 | very energetic like my three and a half year old son is. |
| 1:16.0 | It's sometimes helpful to divide and conquer. |
| 1:19.0 | So a lot of weekends Tim and I will separate our ways and he'll take to Evan somewhere and I'll hang |
| 1:25.1 | back with Colette or vice versa just for a few hours so that the kids get one on |
| 1:29.3 | one time and the parents I see I feel like it's, when you have two kids, it's like exponentially more challenging than just with one child. |
| 1:37.0 | So just to sort of give ourselves some downtime with one child and a break, it helps to divide and conquer. So Evan and I flew. We really did this. We flew by ourselves to Fort Lauderdale and now just, you know, it was 80 degrees, no rain, no snow, no ice. It was amazing and pretty affordable, you know, |
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