Financial Festivus 2024: Celebrating Listener Money Wins #925

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🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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For a year that was dominated by headlines of destructive hurricanes, cyberattacks, and political uncertainty, we think it’s more important than ever to highlight some of the good things that happened – and no, we’re not talking about Joel’s Costco rebate check! Not only do we get to share our personal financial wins from 2024, but an incredible number of How To Money listeners have achieved major milestones with their money this year. Creating this episode always fires us up, and we hope it does the same for you! From hanging onto an old 4Runner to keep costs in check, to flying to Hawaii four times for free with a Southwest Companion Pass, and maxing out a 401k for the first time, all the way to hitting millionaire status and getting dentures to save! The stories we’ve heard are nothing short of inspiring and we hope today’s episode not only helps you celebrate these wins but sparks ideas and provides some motivation for some epic financial moves in 2025. Here’s to learning from each other, crushing goals, and making it happen together!

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0:00.0	Welcome to How to Money. I'm Joel. I's what we've called it in years past, Joel.
0:30.1	It's true. It's got a nice ring to it. You love alliteration. Financial Festivus. Should I change the title of the episode?
0:35.5	Yeah, please do. Yeah. Back to Financial Festus. I didn't think that through well. All right. You know what this makes me think of.
0:40.9	What? Have I told you the story about I was going to start singing celebration by Cool and the
0:46.5	gang? Did I tell you the story how back in the day when I worked at the advertising agency
0:51.5	that when it was someone's birthday and we had like a company lunch
0:56.0	that I would on the office phone
0:58.8	I would hit the PA button and I would play
1:01.1	cool in the game to signify that it was time for us to party
1:04.4	there you go you got to have a queue I was the
1:07.1	my office was the closest one to the kitchen so I could see when the
1:09.9	cake would show up and the sandwiches from Jason's deli
1:13.4	would show up as well.
1:15.5	And, yeah, maybe that's why I'm not there anymore because I thought it was a ton of fun,
1:20.4	but maybe everyone else didn't.
1:21.5	They're like, man, that guy was so annoying.
1:23.6	I'm glad he's gone.
1:24.6	It's like, dude, I was on a call. I thought it started blasting through the phone. Oh, man. It reminds me of actually one of my first, my first job in radio
1:30.5	in the morning newsroom. The Samuel Jackson Stakes-on-A-Movie came out, and I would play that
1:36.8	clip out loud in the newsroom, like at like, you know, 6 a.m. because we're there super early. Just to get you all laughing. Just to get the juices flowing, you know? And they laughed.
1:45.5	But I got to imagine probably by like the 12th time I did it.
1:47.4	They were like, that's enough.
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