Friday Flight - Brick n Mortar Shopping, Thermostat Tug of War, & Too Many Toys #912
How to Money
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🗓️ 29 November 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Time for a Friday Flight- our little sampling of the week’s financial news and what it means for your personal finances. There are a lot of headlines out there, but we boil them down to specific takeaways that will allow you to kick off the weekend informed and help you to get ahead with your money. In this episode we explain some relevant and helpful stories like: Joel’s price match win, egregious store card rates, brick & mortar shopping, physical catalog resurgence, generous happy people, Robinhood x Daffy, thermostat tug of war, too many toys, toilet scrubbing over bank account peeking, student loan servicer mess, Amazon Music audiobooks, & unassuming entrepreneurship hubs.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up? This is Ramses Job. And I go by the name, Q Ward. And we'd like you to join us each week for our show Civic Cipher. That's right. We discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way that informs and empowers all people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence, and we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, and social circle. |
| 0:20.9 | We're going to learn how to become better allies to each other. |
| 0:23.5 | So join us each Saturday for Civic Cipher on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or |
| 0:28.2 | wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:30.1 | Welcome to How to Money. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm Joel. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm Matt. |
| 0:33.0 | And today we're talking about in-store shopping, the thermostat tug of war, and too many toys. |
| 1:11.9 | That's right. Happy belated thanksgiving to everybody. Happy Black Friday, specifically. Joel, are you scouring the interwebs for any specific deals? Are you looking for anything in particular? I'm not going to lie. I've done most of my Christmas shopping at this point because... Look at you. |
| 1:12.7 | Get her done while the deals are good. |
| 1:14.3 | I've tried to like stick to a budget, not go overboard. |
| 1:17.6 | There's one thing, Matt. |
| 1:18.4 | Can I tell you about my best Black Friday deal? |
| 1:20.2 | Sure. |
| 1:21.0 | So it also reveals how old I am and crotchety. |
| 1:25.7 | But so I have to get a CPAP machine because my sleeping, I have sleep apnea, right? |
| 1:31.8 | And I took one of those newfangled at home sleep tests. |
| 1:35.3 | This company called Lofta does. |
| 1:36.8 | There's actually multiple companies to do this. |
| 1:39.1 | It's the, the Casper mattress of sleep apnea tests. |
| 1:42.3 | Which is actually amazing when you think about how far |
| 1:44.2 | technology has come and you used to have to go in and I've done in-person sleep study, how much it costs |
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