Are You Throwing Away Free Money? (ENCORE) | 43
Call Me Curious
Audible
4.4 • 555 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Is your mailbox flooded with credit card junk mail promising free money? There’s cash back, 0% interest, sign-up bonuses, reward points. The come-ons keep on coming! Well, Nikki and Mr. Malone know exactly what you’re thinking — ‘cause they’re thinking it too. Are we missing out on some valuable free stuff? That’s where character actor and self-described money nerd, Chip Chinery of “Chip’s Money Tips,” and the founder of Clever Girl Finance, Bola Sokunbi, come in. They’ll help put our credit questions in perspective, offering up some amazing I-can’t-believe-I-didn’t-think-of-that! financial hacks along with some cool credit wisdom we all can use. Now THAT sounds too good to be true!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, happy holidays and welcome to the show. Oh, I love the holidays. I really do. It really gives me an excuse to just kind of spoil my friends and family. That's my favorite part, because I really love seeing other people happy. But inevitably, at the end of the month, my credit card bill, is not so happy. And I get to see just how much other people's happiness cost me. |
| 0:23.1 | Did my mom really need those socks that you can heat up in the microwave? |
| 0:26.8 | Yes, she did. |
| 0:28.0 | So what do I do then? |
| 0:29.4 | Well, I start opening all that junk mail that offers me free money to pay for the money that I borrowed to get the microwave socks. |
| 0:36.8 | But then it always seems like more complicated than just paying 40 bucks a month, forever. |
| 0:42.3 | So luckily, we got to the bottom of this topic. |
| 0:45.8 | And our gift to you this year is an encore presentation of the show. |
| 0:49.9 | Are we throwing away free money? |
| 0:53.3 | Enjoy. |
| 0:53.6 | Enjoy. Enjoy. |
| 1:09.5 | From Wondry, I'm Nikki Boyer, and this is Call Me Curious, where every week I'll get to the bottom of those funny strange puzzling or just |
| 1:12.5 | got to know questions you have and we'll tell you the best we can what the answer is |
| 1:17.5 | because I've got 21 questions I've been 21 guessing you could teach me a lesson |
| 1:24.8 | call me curious Call me curious. |
| 1:28.5 | Call me curious. |
| 1:30.6 | Call me curious. |
| 1:32.6 | Come to curious. |
| 1:34.9 | So tell the truth. |
| 1:47.5 | Hi, welcome to the show today. I'm so, so happy that you're here. All right, 85 billion. |
| 1:55.5 | And that's a conservative estimate of how many pieces of junk mail are delivered each year. And it seems like at least |
| 2:02.5 | 40 billion of it comes straight to my mailbox, and it's mostly in the form of credit card |
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