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slash setup welcome to the nerd wallet smart money podcast where we answer your

personal finance questions

and help you feel a little smarter about what you do with your money. I'm Sean Piles.

And I'm Liz Weston. As always, be sure to send us your money questions. Call or text us on the

nerd hotline at 901-7306373. That's 901-730 Nerd. Or email us at podcast at nerdwollet.com. And while you're at it,

please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you're getting this podcast. Also, I just wanted to

thank all of the listeners who've sent us their money questions recently. We've had such

interesting and insightful questions, and we can't wait to answer them. So please, please keep them coming.

Absolutely. In this episode, we're going to talk to Credit Pro Bevo Shea about how to improve your

credit while paying off debt. But first, in our This Week in Your Money segment, Sean and I are

going to talk about COVID impulse shopping, how to spot it, what it means, how to curb it.

Right. This is something that I have definitely been guilty of, especially in the first few weeks

of the pandemic. And this discussion is partially inspired by this article I read recently in the

New York Times titled When Impulse Bies Make You Feel Safe. The piece by Caitlin Greenage was about

how she impulse purchased a toy vacuum for her kid after scrolling

through the horrors of her social media feed for like several hours. And that so struck home

with me because I've done the same thing. It's like you want to be up to date on what's happening,

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