Saving money is really hard to do

Million Bazillion

Marketplace

Kids & Family, News

4.6 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Jed’s treehouse needs repairs, but it’s gonna cost more than he has right now. Saving money can be tough — and even tougher to talk about! So this week on the show we’re gonna get the conversation started and learn a few ways to think about spending and saving our money. We’ll sit down with some experts, do some mythbusting around saving and hear from a young Dollar Scholar who’s got a unique way of keeping track of her savings. Plus, singer Natasha Bedingfield’s got a cheeky idea for a twist on the piggy bank. Don’t forget to send us your questions about money at Marketplace.org/million!

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0:00.0	All right, made it into my scary tree house.
0:07.0	Note to self, fix ladder. Get tetanus shot.
0:14.0	It's not so bad in here.
0:17.0	I bet most treehouses have faulty wiring.
0:20.0	La la. And creepy ghosts.
0:25.0	ghosts.
0:26.0	That's a totally normal thing.
0:28.0	Leave this place.
0:31.0	Normal thing, Normal thing.
0:33.0	Leave.
0:35.0	Seriously, you got to get out of this place.
0:38.0	This treehouse is not safe.
0:40.0	There's like missing floorboards and those squirrels.
0:45.0	Oh yeah, those squirrels are mean.
0:47.0	Uh, look, Miss Ghost,
0:50.0	I'd love to have a fancy treehouse without rusty nails all over the place, and that isn't
0:55.0	haunted. But repairs cost a lot of money and I don't have that much saved up. I mean I try, but it's
1:02.2	really hard for me to save money.
1:04.0	Man you got to get on it.
1:06.0	This place is a death trap.
1:08.0	I don't even like being here and I'm a ghost.
1:12.0	Oh, what? here and I'm a ghost. Uh-oh.
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