Summer Travel Tips and Conflicting Financial Priorities

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast

NerdWallet Personal Finance

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Flight cancellations, rising gas prices and a surge of travelers — this year, summer travel might be more expensive (and headache-inducing). To start this episode, Sean and Liz share their tips for making the most of summer travel this year. Then they answer a listener’s question about how to balance conflicting financial priorities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:24.8	In this episode, Sean and I answer a listener's question about how to balance competing financial priorities, including when buying yourself a new laptop, might be a better decision than wiping out your debt. But to kick off this episode, an hour this week in your
1:27.7	money segment, Liz and I are talking about summer travel, how to manage costs, how to stay safe,
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