Time for a Friday Flight- our little sampling of the week’s financial news and what it means for your personal finances. There are a lot of headlines out there, but we boil them down to specific takeaways that will allow you to kick off the weekend informed and help you to get ahead with your money. In this episode we explain some relevant and helpful stories like:
- The running industrial complex
- Exorbitant cost of running tourism
- Lead in the protein powders
- More money leading to sloppier habits
- Moneyless millionaires
- AI takes on ecommerce
- Subs for the suds
- Silly names are killing craft beer
- Credit card churning
- Premium cards with premium fees
- HSAs are going mainstream
- Rx vending machines
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You all talked about car wash subscriptions! We’ve been part of one for about a decade here in Utah. I think they make a lot of sense for places that get a lot of snow and when there is almost constant salt on the road in the winter. That can do a lot of damage to your vehicle. We go through 2-3x/week. We have car washes on nearly every corner and most people I know have a subscription. Worth every penny!! In fact, our HOA doesn’t even allow us to wash cars at our homes – how mind blowing is that!
Oh man, great point Kellie! We didn’t even touch on the fact that if your car is regularly exposed to corrosive salts, that it could end up potentially costing you more money when the time comes to finally sell the old rust bucket!
And defund the HOA! 😉