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Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)

Ask Suze Anything: December 26, 2019

Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)

Suze Orman Media

Investing, Business

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this edition of Ask Suze Anything, we hear questions from Women & Money listeners Elizabeth, Jeff, and Ada. They ask:

  • How can I feel less guilty about paying off my debts?
  • Do you have any advice on how I can get my 21-year-old daughter to take saving for retirement, seriously?
  • I want to save money for my child, is a UTMA better than a 529 Savings account?

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. I want you all to take advantage of the incredible interest rates that a

0:05.7

Lyon Credit Union is currently offering 4.5% for a three-month certificate, 4.75% for a six-month

0:15.2

certificate. But best of all, in my opinion, is 5% for a one-year certificate of deposit.

0:24.4

You can also purchase these in a retirement account. So go to my alliance,

0:30.7

ALLIANT.com slash ultimate and check it out now.

1:01.0

We are strong, we are wise, together we will rise.

1:15.5

It is December 26, 2019. You did it. It's the day after Christmas. However, we are still in the

1:24.9

midst of Hanukkah and today is Kwanzaa. So gifts are everywhere and they're still flowing.

1:34.5

But here's the thing, especially since Christmas is over now. How do you feel? You made it.

1:43.4

How do you feel when you're thinking about that very possibly and I'm not being Susie Downer here,

1:49.1

I'm just being realistic. They're very possibly in another few weeks. You are going to get the

1:55.2

credit card statements that you charged all of these things on and you're going to have to pay them

2:02.4

in chances are you will look at them and you probably have charged at least 700 to $1,000

2:08.8

because do you know that that is the average amount of money that people put on their credit cards

2:14.5

for the holidays and so you're going to look at that 700 or $1,000 that you put on your credit

2:21.5

cards and they are going to entice you and they are going to say guess what all you have to do is

2:28.4

pay the minimum payment due and that will be maybe $50, $35, $100. It just depends how much you charge

2:40.5

and you'll go yeah I'm only going to pay that. Do you know that if you only pay the minimum

2:46.1

payment due every time you get a credit card and let's say you have $3,000 on that credit card

2:54.0

at an average interest rate of 18% and let's just say you're paying 2% just a small fraction every

3:00.4

single month it could take you 20 or 30 years to pay that card off in full really but that's not

3:08.7

what I want to drive home. I want to drive home today that so many of you feel that you cannot

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