Introducing: What We Spend
What We Spend
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🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Imagine if you could ask someone anything you wanted about their finances. On What We Spend, people from across the country and across the financial spectrum are opening their wallets—and their lives—to tell you everything: what they make, what they want, and—for one week—what they spend.
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| 0:00.0 | How big is the like margin between what you make and your regular bills every month? |
| 0:07.0 | How much wiggle do you have? |
| 0:09.0 | Like no wiggle room? |
| 0:13.0 | Do you know how much money you spend in a week? |
| 0:17.0 | Like if you were to add it all up, the little treats, the cost of groceries these days, those unexpected car repairs, the new pair of shoes you really don't need, it adds up, right? |
| 0:27.8 | It adds up for everyone. |
| 0:30.1 | We just don't usually talk about it. |
| 0:32.6 | But imagine if we did. |
| 0:34.4 | Imagine if you could ask someone anything you wanted about their finances. How much do you |
| 0:39.8 | make? Who paid for that fancy dinner you went to the other night? What did your house actually cost? |
| 0:46.9 | How would you describe your relationship with money? Consuming. Oh. I would describe it as all consuming, yeah. |
| 0:57.2 | On every episode of the show, a different guest will open up their wallets, open up their lives, |
| 1:03.1 | really, and tell us all about their finances. For one week, they will tell us everything they |
| 1:09.4 | spend their money on. So I spent tonight $42.6, which is crazy. |
| 1:16.8 | My son slammed like $6 for the blueberries in five minutes. |
| 1:20.6 | Having a kid in general was just death by a thousand cuts. |
| 1:23.2 | So I paid $2,400. |
| 1:25.8 | I got to my credit card bill. |
| 1:27.2 | I still have a bit of a balance going on. |
| 1:29.2 | The rest of the bill, I don't want to talk about it today, but maybe we'll get to it at some point. |
| 1:34.5 | This is a show about all the ways money comes into our lives and then leaves again, which of course we all have a lot of feelings about. |
| 1:42.1 | I am stressed about being 30 years old and only making 35,000. |
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