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Welcome to How To Money. I'm Joel and I am Matt.

And today we're asking the question, how much should I be giving away to charity?

That's right, man, how much indeed. We're going to talk about ways to effectively give your money to charity.

And you know, we're talking about this topic today for a couple of reasons. One, it's just important, right? Like this is something that we believe in. It's something that we do.

But secondly, tomorrow is Thanksgiving and as many folks are taking the day, hopefully they are spending some time reflecting upon the different blessings and the just the gratitude that should overcome us when we think about where we are in our lives.

I think a natural outcome, like a natural outpouring from that would be to sort of pay it forward, right? Like basically finding ways to share your gratitude, share your blessings with those around you, whether it's actual individuals or whether it's with other nonprofits.

So that's why we're going to talk about this time. And yeah, we're going to discuss just the different folks who should be giving their money away, the best ways to go about it. And also maybe some of the reasons why it is important for us to do this as well.

Yeah, for sure. We'll hit it all on this episode, but I agree it's sometimes the timing matters of when you talk about something and giving away money one, closely into the year. So it matters more from a tax perspective, but it also matters because we're like you said, we're in that kind of spirit that zone of reflection maybe right now.

We're experiencing more gratitude, more thankfulness this week. And that should like you said overflow Matt into I think our ability to give money away and give possessions away.

But let's before we get to that topic, Matt, I just wanted to mention listener Chelsea reached out. I talked about I don't know maybe a month and a half ago or maybe it was even longer talked about having a hiring a pet sitter to watch our cats while we were gone at the beach.

And so I paid I think we paid like $15 a day to have someone come in and check on the cats. Pretty good. And my goal would be ideally, but we just moved into this house. So I didn't we didn't have any neighbor kids or anything who would do it for even less. That would be ideal.

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