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Today\u2019s guest is Jean Chatzky, financial editor for the TODAY Show, host of the HerMoney podcast and a frequent guest on TV shows like Oprah, Regis & Kelly, and The View.\n\nWe discuss six money rules to guide your spending, including:\n\n#1: The more time you spend looking, the less happy you\u2019ll be with what you find.\n#2: Your retirement trumps their tuition.\n#3: Losing money hurts more than it should.\n#4: Big numbers make smart people do stupid things.\n#5: Don\u2019t lend money to friends & relatives, and don\u2019t co-sign for loans.\n#6: If it's 50% off, it\u2019s still 50% on.\n\nThis leads us into discussing tactics to prevent wasteful spending, such as:\n\n-- The 10/10/10 Rule: How will you feel about this purchase in 10 minutes? 10 months? 10 years?\n-- The 24 Hour Rule:\xa0Delay the purchase by 24 hours. Do you still want it?\n-- Only Pay Full Price: Paradoxically, avoiding sales \u2013 and ONLY buying items at full price \u2013 might help you save more money in the long run.\n\nFinally, we chat about how to balance financial priorities when you and your spouse want different things. What if you want to retire early, but your spouse doesn\u2019t? How do you handle this?\n\nJean shares her ideas on these topics in this episode, which we originally\xa0recorded and aired in 2016.\n\nWe're sharing this as part of GREATEST HITS WEEK, a 5-day series in which we're sharing 5 episodes, across 5 days, that we produced during the earliest years of the Afford Anything podcast. You may have missed it then; enjoy it now.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices