Podcasts about oh my dollar

As the host of Oh My Dollar!, a weekly financial advice radio show and podcast, Lillian has built a reputation for talking money without being boring or stiff- covering the kinds of modern money issues that face millennials, such as retirement planning in the gig economy, choosing a budgeting app, parental leave in a feminist household, and how to pay back six figures of student loan debt. In her twenties she had 40 jobs, including dishwasher, stripper economist, social worker, tax preparer, organic farmer, bagel deliverer, zine librarian, database wizard, and bicycle valet. She has lived in a geodesic dome made of recycled political yard signs and ridden trains in 31 countries. She is pretty good at saving money. Her book, Get Your Money Together, is an illustrated workbook filled with cats explaining purrsonal finance- everything from budgeting to investing. And was 200% funded on Kickstarter. In this episode we talk about why she chose to use cats for explaining personal finance, how she has made giving and helping other's a foundation in her life, why private schools are sometimes more affordable than public schools, avoiding lifestyle inflation, how she has been able to save 50% of her income, why we all have budget constraints but don't always operate that way, advise for people leasing cars, and even saving money on groceries (especially if you are vegetarian). Resources Lillian's Website Get your hands on her awesome book! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pharma and insurance companies play devious, clever games, competing for dollars. They're sharks! It'd be fun to track, but they're eating us alive.If anyone could beat the sharks at this game, we'd pick Lillian Karabaic, who runs the personal finance show/community called Oh My Dollar! — and is SUPER on-top-of her stuff. But Lillian recently got socked with an unexpected $3,000 charge— and expects to lose her very-organized fight against it.Understanding how Lillian got here — how pretty much any of us could, and how we can start to fight back, together — means understanding the games these big sharks are playing.Which is exactly what we do in our latest episode, with Lillian's expert — and often very-funny — guidance. This episode goes deep on a shark game called a “copay accumulator” policy. In short, they're an invention by the insurance industry to make sure only YOUR money counts toward your yearly deductible — not any assistance you may receive from a drug company. One thing we learned: Finding out if your insurance plan even includes one of these policies can be extremely tough: Otherwise, Lillian — who did her extremely-good best to check for this very information — wouldn't have gotten taken by surprise.We've got a little bit of help to offer: Researchers from a nonprofit called The AIDS Institute also researched this question, looking at hundreds of plans across the country. And they developed a tip sheet a tip sheet to help guide their search: How to search online, what questions to ask if the information just isn't online (which happens). More resources:For tips on how to avoid overpaying for drugs — when that's possible — check out the latest edition of our First Aid Kit newsletter.There's a third bunch of sharks involved in this drug-pricing game: Middleman companies called Pharmacy Benefit Managers. If you want to understand the role they play, here's an Arm and a Leg episode about them.A dozen states have banned copay accumulators, and more are considering it. This short report includes a list of those dozen states. Here's a transcript of the episode. Send your stories and questions: https://armandalegshow.com/contact/ or call 724 ARM-N-LEGAnd of course we'd love for you to support this show. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lillian Karabaic is the founder of the wildly successful personal finance website (AKA “lifestyle blog”

The number of people filing for unemployment benefits continues to rise with COVID's persistence. Many more are unsure if they should file and what exactly they should apply for under the CARES Act. Harlan Landes sits with Sandy Smith and Lillian Karabaic to discuss all your burning unemployment questions. They unravel some of the confusion about what to apply for, who is eligible, and the additional benefits due to COVID-19. - Who qualifies for unemployment assistance under the CARES Act - How the implementation of unemployment benefits offered by the CARES act differ by state - The availability of help for undocumented workers - A plea to apply for Social Services and overcome the mental hurdles to receiving aid   About Sandy Smith: Sandy has been a personal finance blogger since January 1, 2009, when she resolved to get out of debt or die trying. No, no, that was 50 Cent. At age 29 she was frankly tired of paying living paycheck-to-paycheck and feeling as if she would never get ahead financially. Her blog, Yes I Am Cheap, was born out of sheer frustration with the hope of paying down a $120,000 debt much faster than the average debtor without filing for bankruptcy. Sandy is also a Senior Certified HR Professional and the founder of the Elevate Influencer conference, an event designed to reach financial influencers whose audience is primarily comprised of individuals of color. Social Handles cheapskate@yesiamcheap.com @yesiamcheap (everywhere) thehustlecrew.com https://elevateworkshops.com   About Lillian Karabaic: As the host of Oh My Dollar!, a weekly syndicated financial advice radio show and podcast, Lillian Karabaic has built a reputation for talking money without being boring or stiff. The New York Times called her show "endearingly quirky". She covering the kinds of modern money issues that don't fit in the white-picket-fence salary world. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, CBS, NPR, Forbes, and Vox Media. Her cat-filled purrsonal finance illustrated book, A Cat's Guide to Money, is in its second print run. She has 12 Bowie costumes and is an aspiring spandex style icon.   Social Handles Website: http://ohmydollar.com Oh My Dollar! on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1Wl8xzBfvkpmydPs97toeh Instagram: http://instagram.com/anomalily Youtube: http://youtube.com/anomalily Twitter: http://twitter.com/anomalily

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1)Interview with Dick Schouten, candidate for Senate District 14 (2)News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Colin Jones (3)Oh My Dollar! (4)Climate Roundtable- with Keith Wilson, Tera Hurst and Lori Stegman

Three questions that didn't make the livestream this week: what to do with your $1,200 if your job is stable right now, can they take back your unemployment overpayment, and how to get your stimulus bill if you don't have a bank account. I answered a lot more questions on the livestream this weekend, you can watch or listen to the replay at youtube.com/anomalily and subscribe to be notified of the next one. If you have a question about your financial life, or if you just want to share what it is like in your part of the world, please email questions@ohmydollar.com or tweet me @anomalily. I’d also love to just hear just little audio updates about how you’re doing in the world. You can leave a voicemail in the US at (503) 877-4338 or you can email us a voice memo to questions@ohmydollar.com Over on the Oh My Dollar! forums we are meme-ing and supporting each other through all this. Check out the transcript and the full show notes at ohmydollar.com This episode was supported by our Purrsonal Finance Society members - help out for just $1 a month at http://ohmydollar.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Freelancers and gig workers (and musicians and more) can file for unemployment now for the first time ever. And for the moment, it actually pays enough to pay your bills - possibly even more than your job did. If you have a question about your financial life, or if you just want to share what it is like in your part of the world, please email questions@ohmydollar.com or tweet me @anomalily. I’d also love to just hear just little audio updates about how you’re doing in the world. You can leave a voicemail in the US at (503) 877-4338 or you can email us a voice memo to questions@ohmydollar.com Over on the Oh My Dollar! forums we are meme-ing and supporting each other through the apocalypse. Check out the transcript and the full show notes at ohmydollar.com This episode was supported by our Purrsonal Finance Society members - help out for just $1 a month at http://ohmydollar.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do you get health insurance if you lost your job? Are we all really getting 1,200 extra free dollars from the government? what is the catch If you have a question about your financial life, or if you just want to share what it is like in your part of the world, please email questions@ohmydollar.com or tweet me @anomalily. I’d also love to just hear just little audio updates about how you’re doing in the world. You can leave a voicemail in the US at (503) 877-4338 or you can email us a voice memo to questions@ohmydollar.com Over on the Oh My Dollar! forums we are meme-ing and supporting each other through the apocalypse. Check out the transcript and the full show notes at ohmydollar.com This episode was supported by our Purrsonal Finance Society members - help out for just $1 a month at http://ohmydollar.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is episode touches on everything you need to know to get started meal planning. If you have a question for the Special Financial Chaos episodes coming out, or if you just want to share what it is like in your part of the world, please email questions@ohmydollar.com or tweet me @anomalily. I’d also love to just hear just little audio updates about how you’re doing in the world. You can leave a voicemail in the US at (503) 877-4338 or you can email us a voice memo to questions@ohmydollar.com Over on the Oh My Dollar! forums we are meme-ing and supporting each other through the apocalypse. Check out the transcript and the full show notes at ohmydollar.com This episode was supported by our Purrsonal Finance Society members - help out for just $1 a month at http://ohmydollar.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1)News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Jami Zangwill (2)Interview with Aaron Brown from No More Freeways (3)XRAY's personal finance show Oh My Dollar! (4)Vision 2020 interview with Theressa Raiford

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1)News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Colin Jones (2)XRAY's personal finance show Oh My Dollar! (3)Part 1 of interview with Theressa Raiford

Time is money! But many of us know exactly where our money goes, but have no idea where our time goes. Once you know where the time goes, you can make changes that will help you spend more time on the things you value and less where you don’t (just like budgeting). Over on the Oh My Dollar! forums, we're doing a fun time tracking challenge, March of Time this month. We brought on the expert of experts on Time Tracking, Laura Vanderkam, to talk about tracking your time.  The ⏰⏳ March of Time Tracking Challenge started already, but it isn't too late to join and get stickers and reap the benefits of time tracking. Check out the transcript and the full show notes at ohmydollar.com  This episode was supported by our Purrsonal Finance Society members - help out for just $1 a month at http://ohmydollar.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're off this week due to mysterious flu-like illnesses BUT never fear, we have cool OMD things coming up this week. Tomorrow (leap day, Saturday, February 29th) - we have a livestream at 5PM Pacific. Subscribe on youtube to anomalily to be notified when we go live (or watch afterwards). Check out the March of Time time tracking on the Oh My Dollar forums which starts March 1st! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1)News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Colin Jones (2)Interview with Keith Wilson, running for Portland City Council #4 (3)XRAY's personal finance show Oh My Dollar!

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1)News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Colin Jones (2)Oh My Dollar! (3)Interview with Kari Chisholm from Mandate Media

What work benefits might you actually want to use and negotiate for? We asked the Oh My Dollar! community for the work benefits they actually used - and the ones that were just useless lip service. Check out the transcript and the full show notes at ohmydollar.com Plus Check our 20 in 2020 challenges on the OMD forums. This episode was supported by our Purrsonal Finance Society members- we are having a new member drive right now and all new members pledges are doubled- help out for just $1 a month at http://ohmydollar.com/support/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1)News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Colin Jones (2)XRAY's personal finance show Oh My Dollar! (3)Interview with Commissioner Nick Fish from January 2019

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1)News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Karol Collymore (2)Oh My Dollar! (3)Monthly interview with Dave Adamshick from Kitchen Table Magazine (4)Interview with Talia Lavin, writer for GQ

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1)News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Jami Zangwill (2)Oh My Dollar! (3)Interview with Dan Meek

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1)News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Colin Jones (2)XRAY's personal finance show Oh My Dollar!

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1)News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Colin Jones (2)Oh My Dollar! (3)Interview with Dave Adamshick, Co-editor of Kitchen Table Magazine (4)Interview with Dave and Christine Vernier from Vernier Software & Technologies (5)Interview with comedian Alex Falcone

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1)News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Colin Jones (2)XRAY's personal finance show Oh My Dollar! (3)Interview with Mark Bennet, Zoe Pilifias and Fowzia Ibrahim from Global Works Community Fund (4)Interview with Jamie Mustard, author of The Iconist

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1)News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Colin Jones (2)XRAY's personal finance show Oh My Dollar! (3)Interview with Mats Jolstrom, engineer and researcher advocating for longer yellow lights (4)Interview with Jody Wiser of Tax Fairness Oregon

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1)News With Friends with Colin Jones and Jami Zangwill (2)Talk Media News with Tom Squitieri (3)Episodes of XRAY's personal finance show Oh My Dollar!

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1)News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Colin Jones (2)Dave Adamshick, editor of Kitchen Table Magazine (3)XRAY's personal finance show Oh My Dollar! (4)Interview with Robert Macfarlane

It's Will's final Oh My Dollar! episode and we talk about how much it cost for him to move cross-country - and also about our halloween themed budget challenge, Budgetober! Join budgetober at http://www.ohmydollar.com/budgetober/ Check out full show notes at ohmydollar.com  - no transcript this week since it is a breezy episode, but every other week our transcripts are provided by our patrons in the Purrsonal Finance Society (who make such a HUGE DIFFERENCE to this show).  This episode was underwritten by patron Tamsen G Association, Warrior Queen, and Chris Giddings.  You can always find me on the Oh My Dollar! forums. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1)News With Friends with Keera Lindenberg and Jami Zangwill (2)Talk Media News with Tom Squitieri (3)XRAY's personal finance show Oh My Dollar

California just passed legislation that will require gig economy companies like Uber, Lyft, and Amazon to classify workers instead of contractors. This is a big deal outside California, even outside the US. Check out our transcript and full shows note at ohmydollar.com  - transcripts are provided by our patrons in the Purrsonal Finance Society (who make such a HUGE DIFFERENCE to this show). This episode was underwritten by patron Tamsen G Association, Warrior Queen, and Chris Giddings.  You can always find me on the Oh My Dollar! forums and pre-order a copy of A Cat's Guide to Money - Lillian's book - now if you missed the kickstarter! (Plus new stickers and a planner!) Visit ohmydollar.com/book/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1)News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Colin Jones (2)Talk Media News with Tom Squitieri (3)XRAY's personal finance show Oh My Dollar! (4)Interview with Dr. Lawrence Johns, founder and director of Art Fair Portland

A recession is coming, what should you do to be ready? Can you really prepare for a recession? Check out our transcript and full shows note at ohmydollar.com  - transcripts are provided by our patrons in the Purrsonal Finance Society (who make such a HUGE DIFFERENCE to this show). This episode was underwritten by patron Tamsen G Association, Warrior Queen, and Chris Giddings.  You can always find me on the Oh My Dollar! forums and pre-order a copy of A Cat's Guide to Money - Lillian's book - now if you missed the kickstarter! (Plus new stickers and a planner!) Visit ohmydollar.com/book/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1)News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Colin Jones (2)Talk Media News with Tom Squitieri (3)XRAY's person finance show Oh My Dollar! (4)Jefferon Smith's interview with Michael German

What are some tips for managing your personal finances as a college or university student? What do we wish we had known about money when we started out in school?  Check out our transcript and full show note at ohmydollar.com  - transcripts are provided by our patrons in the Purrsonal Finance Society (who make such a HUGE DIFFERENCE to this show). This episode was underwritten by patron Tamsen G Association, Warrior Queen, and Chris Giddings.  You can always find me on the Oh My Dollar! forums and pre-order a copy of A Cat's Guide to Money - Lillian's book - now if you missed the kickstarter! (Plus new stickers and a planner!) Visit ohmydollar.com/book/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Splitting date expenses is hard, especially when you're queer.  How do you split rent when one person makes a lot more money? Plus, what who should get more in their retirement account? Check out our transcript and full show note at ohmydollar.com  - transcripts are provided by our patrons in the Purrsonal Finance Society (who make such a HUGE DIFFERENCE to this show). This episode was underwritten by patron Tamsen G Association, Warrior Queen, and Chris Giddings.  Question for this episode came from the Oh My Dollar! forums.   Remember, You can pre-order a copy of A Cat's Guide to Money - Lillian's book - now if you missed the kickstarter! (Plus new stickers and a planner!) Visit ohmydollar.com/book/ Shipping is $1 right now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1)News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Colin Jones (2)Talk Media News with Tom Squitieri (3)XRAY's personal finance show Oh My Dollar! (4)Interview with Portia Sabin, new President of the Music Business Association (5)Interview with Lisa Gardner, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southwest Oregon

Our guest this week is Lillian Karabaic. Lillian is the host of Oh My Dollar!, a weekly syndicated financial advice radio show and podcast for covering the kinds of modern money issues that aren't represented in the mainstream media. Her book, A Cat’s Guide to Money, just went into its second printing. She eats 3 tacos for breakfast every morning. For show notes visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/lillian-karabaic-host-of-oh-my-dollar/

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1)News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Colin Jones (2)Talk Media News with Tom Squitieri (3)XRAY's personal finance show Oh My Dollar! (4)Interview with Bill Sullivan, author of Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are (5)Interview with Andrew DeVigal from the UO Journalism center to discuss the Gannet and GateHouse merger

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1)News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Colin Jones (2)Talk Media News with Tom Squitieri (3)XRAY's personal finance show Oh My Dollar! (4)Monthly interview with Dave Adamshick from Kitchen Table Magazine (5)Interview with Lori Franz, publicity and membership chair of the Oregon State Button Society

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1)News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Colin Jones (2)Talk Media News with Tom Squitieri (3)XRAY's personal finance show Oh My Dollar (4)Interview with Janna Jihad Tamimi about activism in Palestine (5)Interview with Lee McIntyre, author of the book Post Truth and the article The Mueller hearing and the death of facts (6)Interview with Maia Kobabe, author of the book Gender Queer

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1)News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Colin Jones (2)Talk Media News with Tom Squitieri (3)XRAY's personal finance show Oh My Dollar! (4)Interview with members of the Portland Bike Polo Team, Gavin Thurston, Jennifer Haliewicz and Shawn Hurley (5)Interview with Wade Hilts, chair of Amazon Workers Solidarity Campaign

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1)News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Colin Jones (2)Talk Media News with Tom Squitieri (3)XRAY's personal finance show Oh My Dollar! (4)Interview with Anthony McCann, author of Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff (5)Interview with Belinda Carroll and Jen Kober about the 3rd annual Portland Queer Comedy Festival

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1) News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Colin Jones (2) Talk Media News with Tom Squitieri (3) XRAY's personal finance show Oh My Dollar! (4) Interview with Dave Adamshick, editor of Kitchen Table Magazine (5) Interview with Nina Madueno and Elizabeth Jimenez from Pueblo Unido

Saving up that first emergency fund can be hard - especially if you don't make a lot of money, if murphy keeps knocking on your door and stealing from your savings, or if you have variable income. So we asked listeners to share their stories of how they saved their first emergency funds. Here are different methods: -The automatic sneaky savings method - including using an app - The shoebox under the bed method - The side hustle method - The tax refund method - Ramping down debt repayment while saving method We'll continue this discussion on the Oh My Dollar! forums! We don't bite, come join! Ask us a question! We love hearing from you! Email us your bike photos or other financial thoughts at questions@ohmydollar.com or tweet us at  @anomalily or @ohmydollar Check out our transcript and full show notes The full transcript and show notes are provided by our patrons in the Purrsonal Finance Society. This episode was underwritten by patron Tamsen G Association, Warrior Queen, and Chris Giddings. Find the transcript and show notes at ohmydollar.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1) News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Colin Jones (2) Talk Media News with Tom Squitieri (3) XRAY's personal finance show Oh My Dollar! (4) interview with Kelly Campbell, executive director of Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility

TODAY ON XRAY: (1) News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Colin Jones (2) Talk Media News (3) Oh My Dollar! (4) An interview with Andrea Paluso with Family Forward Action (5) An interview with Julia DeGraw on the Friday Forum on improving digital access in the Portland region.

It's pride month! And here at Oh My Dollar!, we're queer af, so we're here to talk all things under the rainbow. I thought in the midst of this historical pride month - the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riot - we share the things that we still have to work on in the world of finance and money for GLBTQI+ folks. Reminder you have 3 days left to support Oh My Dollar!'s kickstarter. We're in our 2nd stretch goal and every dollar now goes to expanding our financial literacy programming with GLBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness - plus you get cool goodies like special stickers and planners, and a book! Find out more at ohmydollar.com/cats/ The full transcript for this show is provided by our patrons in the Purrsonal Finance Society. Find it at ohmydollar.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1) News with Friends with Emily Gilliland and Colin Jones (2)Talk Media News with Tom Squitieri (3) XRAY's personal finance show Oh My Dollar! (4) Prerecorded interview with Metro president Lynn Peterson (5) Prerecorded interview with Wendy Kramer

You "should" do this [unpleasant money thing.] Sound familiar? I know many of you admit to financial procrastination, but often perfectionism is a the root of procrastination. Sometimes it's things like overgeneralizing, all-or-nothing thinking, mental filter (harder on yourself than others), should statements. We're Crowdfunding a Book and Need Your Help You can find out about our campaign for the reprint of my cat-filled purrsonal finance book "A Cat's Guide to Money" at - ohmydollar.com/cats And if it doesn’t make sense for you, that is 100% fine.  But if you're able to share it on social media, that goes a LONG way towards helping us out. Shares mean a lot in these campaigns! We have 10 days left to hit our stretch goal of $10,000, and we're less than $400 away! Notes Remember that money is a process, not just a thing you win once and put on your shelf. You can do things incrementally with money. It’s okay to not be perfect. It’s okay to have an off budget week or month or even year. It’s okay to backslide on your debt payoff or savings goals because you had a breakup, got sick, or just stopped focusing on it for a little bit. It’s more important to sit, reassess, and come up with a new plan. Inspired by this episode about Perfectionism on the Hannahlyze This podcast. Ask us a question! We love hearing from you! Email us your financial worries or your own procrastination or cat pictures at questions@ohmydollar.com or tweet us at @anomalily or @ohmydollar All the numbers and stories on this show came from the Oh My Dollar! forums, a friendly, nonjudgemental online community about money. Don't be afraid, come join us on the forums! This show is made paw-sible by listeners like you We absolutely love our Purrsonal Finance Society Members, the folks that generously support Oh My Dollar with $1 or more a month on Patreon – and have made is so we have free, full transcripts for every show. View this transcript here at ohmydollar.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1) News With Friends and Michael Leverette and Andy Lindberg (2) Talk Media News with Tom Squitieri (3) XRAY's personal finance show Oh My Dollar! (4) Interview with Andrea Rodgers with Our Children's Trust, discussing the youth government rally (5) Prerecorded Housing Code Roundtable

Some hobbies are pricey, some hobbies actually save you money. The OMD community tunes in to share how much their hobbies cost them. Plus, Lillian shares the costs from her new figure skating hobby. We talk about these things:The costs of brewing beer and if it saves you moneyThe marginal cost of hobbies ($3 per use or not)Limiting the cost of "Trying new hobbies" as a hobby - and how to avoid spending all the money on itWhat Will considers a "hobby" vs "not a hobby" Having kids in expensive hobbiesPlaying Tennis and Golf (I always wondered what these "rich" hobbies cost")The cost of martial artsHow much figure skating costs We're Crowdfunding a Book and Need Your Help You can find out about our campaign for the reprint of my cat-filled purrsonal finance book "A Cat's Guide to Money" at - ohmydollar.com/cats And if it doesn’t make sense for you, that is 100% fine.  But if you're able to share it on social media, that goes a LONG way towards helping us out. Shares mean a lot in these campaigns! Ask us a question! We love hearing from you! Email us your financial worries or how you've tackled risk or cat pictures at questions@ohmydollar.com or tweet us at @anomalily or @ohmydollar All the numbers and stories on this show came from the Oh My Dollar! forums, a friendly, nonjudgemental online community about money. Don't be afraid, come join us on the forums! This show is made paw-sible by listeners like you We absolutely love our Purrsonal Finance Society Members, the folks that generously support Oh My Dollar with $1 or more a month on Patreon – and have made is so we have free, full transcripts for every show. View this transcript here at ohmydollar.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on XRAY In The Morning: (1) News With Friends with Emily Gilliland and Colin Jones (2) Talk Media News with Tom Squitieri (3) XRAY's personal finance show Oh My Dollar! (4) Interview with Jefferson Smith and academic, attorney, and political activist Larry Lessig