A Week In Her Wallet: A 47-year-old who hasn’t paid credit card interest in 20 years

HerMoney with Jean Chatzky

Jean Chatzky Her Money

Investing, Business

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week on A Week In Her Wallet, we meet Megan, a 47-year-old office manager living on Long Island with her husband. Together they earn around $200,000, but keep most of their spending separate — and it works. Megan hasn’t paid a cent in credit card interest in over two decades and recently spent just $400 in a week, all while training for her fifth marathon. Tune in as she shares: Why she keeps her money separate from her spouse, and how they make it work The real costs of marathon training How she budgeted for a trip to Barcelona without touching savings Her unique take on tipping, impulse buying, and personal finance independence 🎯 Ready to understand your own money style? Take our MoneyType™ quiz 💡 Want to build better habits? Join our InvestingFixx club. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.4	I'm Gene Chatsky and today we are diving into another episode of our special series
1:05.2	A Week in Her Wallet, where we follow real women from our community as they track their
1:10.5	spending for seven days
1:12.1	and reflect on how their money habits reveal their values, their emotions, their goals.
1:19.1	This week, we're headed to New York to meet Megan.
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