Friday Flight - Richer Refunds, Best Costco Buys, & $3 Dinners (don’t have to be this sad!) #1095
How to Money
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Time for a Friday Flight- our little sampling of the week’s best 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:
- $119 for an entire year of cell service
- NYC tipping company
- Don’t panic tip
- Richer refunds
- Tax refund advance loans
- Save by shopping your rideshare
- No miles for basic flyers
- Water sommeliers
- Best Costco buys
- Affordability polls
- $3 dinners (don’t have to look like this)
- Subjective financial security stress
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Welcome to How to Money. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm Joel. |
| 0:06.5 | I am Matt. |
| 0:07.8 | Today we're talking richer refunds, $3 dinners, and best Costco buys. Oh, that's right. We are going to talk about your absolute favorite store. Do you, is there any other store that you go in and you get excited? |
| 0:38.7 | Because I think that's how you are when you go into college. That's how I am when I go into Home Depot. I just don't really go into other stores very much. So, like, where else, where else I physically shop? When you go into Target, you don't get pumped like you do when you go into Costco. I guess there's like, like when I go into, there's this one, like it's an hour and halfway, so I rarely go in, but it's like a folk art place in a little downtown small Georgia town, and when I go in there, I get really excited. Okay. But it's because you know you're going to walk out with a cool, affordable, or just look. Groovy piece of art. Just looking, man. It makes me happy. So just walking around there's |
| 1:12.8 | awesome. And I just can't, I feel like I do so much of my shopping online that I'm not going |
| 1:18.2 | into a ton of physical retailers. Costco is one that I make an exception for. Yeah, |
| 1:22.4 | groceries in particular. Okay, this is our Friday flight, then. We're going to talk about |
| 1:27.1 | the headlines from this past week and how We're going to talk about the headlines |
| 1:28.0 | from this past week and how they are going to impact your wallet. And specifically, Joel, |
| 1:32.5 | I wanted to talk about US mobile because, and I don't, not sponsored by the way, just |
| 1:37.7 | we are not sponsored. Although we do, we've got an affiliate relationship with them. That's true. |
| 1:42.3 | But we don't make any money from them. We may like, I actually checked all of last year. |
| 1:45.8 | Guess how much money we made from our US Mobile affiliate relationship? 120 bucks. 275. Oh, okay. Nicely done. So it's not like we make any money from them, hardly at all. But you are still with US Mobile, correct? Yes. Okay. Did you see the email that they sent out prior to Winter Storm Fern last week? |
| 2:03.3 | Yes. |
| 2:03.6 | The 5 gigabyte top off? Oh, no, I don't think I saw that point. You didn't see that? No. Everybody got more data for free? Ahead of the storm because essentially what they were doing, they were looking down, looking at the forecast, and they're like, man, people are going to be in a pinch. |
| 2:18.8 | People are going to lose power. |
| 2:20.3 | They're going to lose their home internet. |
| 2:22.4 | And so why not preemptively make sure that folks are topped off that they've got enough |
| 2:27.3 | data to weather this storm? |
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