Time for a Friday Flight- our 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: $3 movies, T Swift Tourism, the Messi Effect, Apple breaking the bank, instant ACH transfers, DoorDashOffWithYourMoney, Costco meat indicator, $1,000,000,000,000 in credit card debt, Prime Perks, haggling for discounts, 1% mortgage down payments, & WTD with that home equity.

Additional links:

• Debt payoff plan – Use Undebt.it to help you figure out a get-outta-debt plan and check out this detailed post about debt snowball vs debt avalanche methods, including differences and examples.

• Food delivery ripoff – Leanne Brown had some fantastic tips on how to keep your grocery budget in check. Her free cookbook is incredibly helpful and nerdy as she breaks down the cost- not only to the price per meal, but the price per serving as well! SuperCook is the site where you can input what you have on hand to get ingredient saving recipes!

• Costco – We love them, and you probably will too! Here is why we think the upgraded Executive Membership at Costco is worth it for most folks.

• Cell phones – Even if the Prime cell service doesn’t pan out, you can still cut your monthly cell phone service down to $15 a month with a provider like Mint Mobile– we’ve been using them for years now!

• Newsletter – Don’t forget to sign up for the best personal finance newsletter in all the land! It’s completely free and something we create to help you along your journey to financial freedom. It drops every Tuesday morning and you can always unsubscribe if you don’t dig it!

• Credit Card Tool – Looking for the right credit card for you? Then check out our new credit card tool that’ll help you to easily filter through all the cards based on your preferred airline, whether or not they have an annual fee, or simply by the cash back offer! Just toggle the sliders and you’ll know which card to consider.

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