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Couples Have "Hush" Money · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: One of those six point seven light FM. Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: it is Jack and Nina. Thank you for having us
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  Speaker 1: on it. Keep keeping secrets from your spouse.
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  Speaker 2: Half of all couples are keeping financial secrets from each other,
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  Speaker 2: and only about forty two percent now combine their No wait, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: only forty two percent of couples combine their finances.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, when you're both working, should everything go
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  Speaker 1: into a singular pot?
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  Speaker 2: I think, if you don't have kids, why do you
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  Speaker 2: have to combine them. My husband and I have been
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  Speaker 2: together for together twenty eight years. We still have separate accounts.
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  Speaker 1: Well we You know, it's funny because I initially got
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  Speaker 1: married and I said to my wife, well, you can
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  Speaker 1: pay the mortgage in the bills, I mean out of
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  Speaker 1: the yeah, joint checking. Sure. But she if she sees
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  Speaker 1: money in there, she says, oh, we've got this to spend.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you know budget. She's terrible, So she.
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  Speaker 2: Keeps secrets about spending.
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  Speaker 1: Uh no, I don't neither of us keep secrets. I
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  Speaker 1: probably my secret is she goes, well, what do you have?
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  Speaker 1: And I go, well, I have enough to pay the
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  Speaker 1: mortgage for two months in case trouble, but I keep
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  Speaker 1: the vacation money and all of that stuff. I don't
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  Speaker 1: spend it on myself. Of course, I'm not sneaking things
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  Speaker 1: out there.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that about you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just keeping the egg nest the nest. Egg Jack is.
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  Speaker 2: The guy who will walk three dollars three blocks or
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  Speaker 2: ten blocks to get like a cheap slice of pizza.
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  Speaker 2: Like I know you're not.
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  Speaker 1: She's like that too. I mean she will go to
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  Speaker 1: Aldi and Leedle and whoever's got five cents off. That's
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  Speaker 1: where she goes.
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  Speaker 2: She spends money on what she wants to spend money.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't think she knows where the limit is,
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  Speaker 1: where the stop is.
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  Speaker 2: That's very sweet. Yeah, we keep our money separate, so
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  Speaker 2: no one has to tell anybody anything. It's none of
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  Speaker 2: my business. You bought that, Richard, that really expensive thing.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what you're going to retire on.