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Hey everybody. It's Nick Layton. And it's Leah Bonema. And we had so many great questions from you all in the wilderness.

Aoo!

That we have a bonus episode.

So here we go.

Our first question is, quote,

Two years ago, my wonderful mother-in-law gave me a wallet for my birthday of significance.

It was a thoughtful gesture on her part, but unfortunately, the wallet just isn't my taste.

It's rose gold

with glitter flowers and butterflies. I asked my sister-in-law for advice. She too received a wallet

for the same significant birthday, and she recommended that I just use it when I see her, about

two weeks a year. I followed this advice and switched out my wallet before my in-laws visit,

or when we visit them, and no one besides my husband is any the wiser.

Now, we're moving across the country and will be staying with my in-laws while we house hunt, which might take several months.

I don't want to hurt her feelings, but I also don't want to be saddled with a wallet I don't particularly care for.

The best solution I could come up with would be to fib and to say the zipper broke, so oh darn, I had to buy a new wallet. I hate to lie to her, but a polite yet direct conversation that I don't, in fact, like the gift, seems inappropriate at this point. This is not some small matter that will go and notice by her. if she doesn't outright ask me about it, there will be a reference to it at some point. And I want to be ready. Help, please. I think we don't want to lie about things. We do not want to lie. Yes. I think that is a hard no. Because no good comes of that. No good comes of that. Yeah, it will somehow come back in some way at some point. Yeah. And that's worse. And like, we don't need that. I think you can just use your wallet and pack the wallet from your mother-in-law and put it in storage or for shipping. And then when she says, oh, you have, oh, I still have it. I just packed it for the new place. Yeah, or like people have more than one wallet.

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