Lifestyle Creep, and Booking Cheap Travel

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast

NerdWallet Personal Finance

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Lifestyle creep — where your growing expenses outpace salary increases — can deflate your budget and prevent you from building wealth. To start this episode, Nerds Sean Pyles and Sara Rathner talk about how to determine if you’re succumbing to lifestyle creep and how to be more intentional about your money, while still enjoying the finer things in life. Then Sean and Liz Weston answer a listener’s three-part question about whether to pay off student loans while they’re paused, what to do with their savings and how to find the best deals when booking travel. To send the Nerds your money questions, call or text the Nerd hotline at 901-730-6373 or email [email protected]. If you like what you hear, please leave a review and tell a friend. We appreciate it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Prime Video brings thrilling entertainment.
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0:10.0	Treat yourself to the lovably chaotic Bridget Jones mad about the boy available to buy.
0:15.0	Did you have sex? Did you have sex?
0:17.0	Did you have sex last night?
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0:24.6	Prime Video.
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0:29.6	Hey folks, Sean here.
0:34.6	Liz and I are taking the week off for the holiday, so please enjoy this episode from our archives. In the meantime, keep your money questions coming. Call or text us on the nerd hotline at 901-730 6373. That's 901-730 N-N-E-R-D, or email podcast at nurdwollot.com. Talk to you next week.
1:00.9	Welcome to the NerdWallet Smart Money Podcast, where we answer your personal finance questions
1:05.3	and help you feel a little smarter about what you do with your money. I'm Sean Piles.
1:09.8	And I'm Sarah Rathner, filling in for
1:11.4	Liz Weston, at least for the start of this episode. To contact the nerds, call or text us on the
1:16.1	nerd hotline at 901-730-6373. That's 901-730 nerd. Or email us at podcast at nerdwollet.com. And hit
1:26.0	that subscribe button to get new episodes delivered to your
1:28.6	devices every Monday. If you like what you hear, leave us a review. This episode, Liz and I answer
1:33.9	a listener's question about how to find the best deals when booking travel, whether that is
1:38.1	sometime coming up or whenever this whole delta variant thing goes away. But first, an hour this
1:43.1	week in your money segment,
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