Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin - Funny Money with Comedian Justine Marino: Boy Dinner, Wendy's Surge-Not-Surge Pricing and Chizza

Episode Date: April 2, 2024

Today's episode is another installment of Funny Money, where Nicole gives bizarre headlines from business and finance, and a comedian gives their famously non-expert insight on the topic. Today, Nicole talks to the hilarious Justine Marino, host of the Glitter and Garbage podcast. Justine gives her take on Wendy's dynamic (definitely not surge) pricing, what role she'd cast Winnie the Pooh in now that the intellectual property is in the public domain and yay or nay on Chizza. Subscribe to Glitter and Garbage here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/glitter-and-garbage/id1506683181  $ If you're ready to find your dream team, use LinkedIn Jobs. Post a job for free at: linkedin.com/mnn $ Want to level up your money moves? Check out Facet. Facet is the next generation of personalized financial planning that is making professional financial advice accessible to the masses, not just the rich. Facet will help you understand and expand your financial opportunities by providing you with a team of financial planners (with the CFP® certification you want) and a team of professionals across all the major food groups of your financial wellness: retirement planning, tax strategy, estate planning and more. To claim Facet’s offer for Money Rehabbers, go to: https://facet.com/moneyrehab 

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I love hosting on Airbnb. It's a great way to bring in some extra cash, but I totally get it that it might sound overwhelming to start or even too complicated if, say, you want to put your summer home in Maine on Airbnb, but you live full time in San Francisco and you can't go to Maine every time you need to change sheets for your guests or something like that. If thoughts like these have been holding you back, I have great news for you. Airbnb has launched a co-host network, which is a network of high quality local co-hosts with Airbnb experience that can take care of your home and your guests. Co-hosts can do what you don't have time for, like managing your

reservations, messaging your guests, giving support at the property, or even create your listing for you. I always want to line up a reservation for my house when I'm traveling for work, but sometimes I just don't get around to it because getting ready to travel always feels like a scramble, so I don't end up making time to make my house look guest-friendly. I guess that's the best way to put it. But I'm matching with a co-host so I can still make that extra cash while also making it easy on myself. Find a co-host at Airbnb.com slash host. I'm Nicole Lappin, the only financial expert you don't need a dictionary to understand. It's time for some money rehab. It is time for another funny money segment where I give bizarre headlines from the worlds of business and finance and a comedian gives their famously non-expert insight on the topic.

Today, my guest is the hilarious Justine Marino. Justine is a stand-up comedian, creator, and host of the Funny Dance Show on E! and the host of the podcast Glitter and Garbage. She is also an unofficial Skims brand ambassador and a whole lot more, which you're about to find out, but I'm going to let her tell you all about that. Let's get into it. Justine Marino, welcome to Money Rehab. Thank you so much for having me in your Money Rehab, Nicole. I'm so happy to be here I love the set green is my color we're off to a great start we're doing great have you ever needed money rehab I would say probably in my 20s at a few points I could have used some money rehab

there was some spending that I maybe should have been saving instead, but who hasn't? Was there anything particularly egregious when it came to money or like cringy? Cringy. Ooh. I mean, obviously my first credit card, I made some mistakes, you know, you kind of think it's free money and then you realize, oh no, it's not. Yeah. So I would say that, uh, I've gotten way better with all that though. It was just, you know, young, early twenties kind of mistakes that I think we all make, or that's what I tell myself. If someone were to look at your bank account statements, Justine, what would you be most embarrassed that they found? I don't know that I'm embarrassed, but I feel like people would be concerned with the amount of skims I purchase. I love skims. Not that you need that. Thank you so much. Well,

they're not, I mean, skims isn't even just shapewear. It's a whole clothing line now. This is a skims. I just, I'm obsessed with skims. So I think the amount of money I spend there would be concerning. Okay. It's time for our segment we call Funny Money. So I'll do the money part and you do the funny part. Great. If you don't mind, I'll tell you some business and finance headlines in the news right now. Perfect. And tell me what you think about them. Great.

All right, ready? Yes, let's do it. Kentucky currently has eight cities and towns offering big relocation packages to recruit new workers many offer five thousand dollars in cash along with perks such as discounts on child care and a free monthly delivery of eggs how many free eggs would it take for you to move to kentucky so as a vegan i don't think there is any amount of eggs i could take to move to kentucky that being said if they wanted to work out like a skims budget for me, going back to that, we could maybe work something out, but it depends like how much time do you actually have to live in Kentucky and be there? Like, could I just keep a place there

and then be elsewhere? Like most of the time, you know, exactly, exactly. That could be cute. Like you have questions about this. I have some questions print i do i i need to read the fine print i can't just sign on i mean there's always a catch so yeah but i think eggs they're they're not coming at me particular with the right angle like a skims budget monthly delivery maybe yes tofu tofu exactly some some impossible burgers you know like that kind of thing would be much more my alley for sure so fun fact i actually lived in lexington kentucky it was one of my first jobs really a local news reporter amazing um and i was a vegan at the time and it was really hard to exist in kentucky as a vegan it's so hard because you know i travel i tour i do stand up so some of

those smaller places in the middle of the country it's hard to find something vegan you're like oh I'm a vegan they're like oh what about this cheese sandwich you know they think it's just not meat or not like a live cow you know totally they think everything else is vegan yeah it's very my big fat greek wedding yes like oh how about lamb yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah exactly we're not fully understanding each other oh so just chicken and turkey right right right yeah okay tiffany henyard the mayor of dalton illinois vetoed a resolution seeking to investigate her spending following allegations that she misused taxpayer money on lavish trips and her own million-dollar police detail.

The former burger restaurant owner is known to attend local government meetings dressed like Drug Kingpin from the movie New Jack City in order to intimidate her critics. I think you're doing the funny on this one because that's hilarious what are you doing with a million dollar police detail mayor of Dalton I know and also like former burger restaurateur like why do you need this much security what's going on I think that look I'm a fashion girly so I am always here to turn a look. And I think that it's a great tactic, to be honest. I mean, we all remember Lady Gaga's meat dress. We don't remember what that was for.

Could you tell me? But we remember the dress. Exactly. So I think it's a great tactic, you know? Like a negotiating tactic? A negotiating tactic, yes. I think it could be a good negotiation. I mean, think back to like paris hilton when she

got her dy right one of the times she got arrested she had to go to court and she wore this very demure angelic i think it was like a chanel suit she looked like she dressed the part she dressed the part but it was it was a little distracting everyone was talking about her outfit rather than the case that was going on so i think it's a good way to throw people off, disarm them, catch them off guard. You know, like, ooh, what is this beret she's wearing, right? What is this fictional drug lord look she's rocking? I don't, do you know New Jack City? I don't.

I missed it. I did look up the look though, and I'm all for it. It was like this cute hat and like a nice gold chain necklace of some sort. It was a good look. It was intimidating. Okay. Wendy's came under fire after it debuted a dynamic pricing model where the cost of menu items would fluctuate based on demand.

The media was quick to call this a surge pricing model, just like Uber or Lyft have for pricing models. Wendy's vehemently denied that this was surge pricing, but rather an incentive for customers to come in during non-busy times. After this debacle, what company do you think will debut dynamic pricing next? So look, I have to say in general about this dynamic pricing, like no one's scheduling Wendy's. You know what I mean? Like that's just not, it's not like you're like, oh.

It's not appointment eating. No, it's not. It's like you're in a shame spiral. You're in a blackout. You're not like. You're hungover. Exactly. You're hungover.

You're not. It's a necessity. Exactly. It's a necessity. It's a need. It's not a want. It's not like a nice afternoon at the ivy or something right no one's planning it so i think this dynamic pricing is

absolutely a surge situation i have to say this is based on a personal experience i recently had at whole foods i was trying to buy a baguette and as i was checking out i put in my card and the cashier said oh hey press cancel and i'd I put in my card and the cashier said, oh, hey, press cancel. And I'd already put the transaction through. And she goes, oh, I charged you $760. And I was like, oh, that's fine. You know, what was like an $8 baguette. That's fine.

She goes, no, I charged you $760. Oh my God. She accidentally had left the item amount from the last transaction. They had purchased 100 of something. So she charged me for a hundred baguettes. So, um, based on personal experience, it does seem that Whole Foods is having a surge situation there. Cause I paid $760 for a baguette. You got it back. I did get it back. I did. And I got a $50 gift card. So it wasn't, yeah, it was a little bit of a happy accident. Yeah. Also in food news, Gary Pilnick, the chairman and CEO of Kellogg,

suggested that people eat cereal for dinner in order to fight rising food costs. He said this on CNBC during a segment about how Americans are dealing with higher prices for food and citing a report that found Americans are spending 10% or more of their income on food. He got roasted online for these comments, people saying things like he was putting a PR spin on poverty. If you were Kellogg's publicist, what would your next move be? If I were Kellogg's publicist, I would probably try and spin this, right, in an advantageous way. I would probably try and get some sort of TikTok viral moment. We've seen girl dinner, which girl dinner is, of course, cheese, olives, some crackers. Like a charcuterie

plate. Exactly. Yeah. A board of some sort. A board of some sort. We could spin this into some sort of boy dinner. You know what I mean? And I feel like he could just do a little bit of rebranding on this and he could have a TikTokiktok sensation on his hands damn that's good also personally as someone who doesn't cook and does have cereal for dinner because of that I feel we're excluding the people who don't have any culinary instincts out of this like this should be our thing as well honestly there are nights that puffins dinner I do do love a puffin. Right? I love a puffin for dinner. I love that. Absolutely. A woman posting under the name Risa Tessa, speaking of TikTok, created a 52 part TikTok series about her marriage to a man

that she called a real pathological liar and quote, the United Nations of red flags, which I find hilarious. many of the alleged lies were financial like he said he had an offshore bank account that she never saw what are some of the biggest red flags financial or otherwise that you've seen out on the dating scene so one that was really big for me is i went on a date with this guy it was a lunch date and while we were on the date i did find out that he lived in his van, which was the van that he picked me up in. So it was like unknowingly,

I'd already gone home with the guy, you know? So, and no shade whatsoever. Like we've all, I've, we've all struggled before. You know, I totally get that. But like, in my mind, I was like, I feel like he should be putting this lunch money towards like a down payment, a home, you know, like a rent, some sort of Yeah, so I think that was a big red flag for me. That was probably the biggest one financially, I would say.

Man, Bowflex, best known for commercials on late night television in the 90s, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Honestly, Justine, I did not know that Bowflex was still in business. I could have assumed that they filed bankruptcy many years ago. What company are you surprised is still in business? Well, Nicole, I have to agree. This was breaking news to me reading this, uh the questions you sent me i had no idea that bowflex was still around um but recently i did also find out that nordic track is still around

i don't think like you put under your bed yes exactly but i think they do treadmills now like it's not the you know the cross-country skiing thing that we had when we were growing up but i was very surprised about that also mattress stores i never see anyone in them like how are they surviving i have no idea like don't aren't we just all ordering online you know what i mean so i'd say mattress stores and nordic track i don't know how nordic track outdid the bow flex but here they are do you remember was it suzanne summers that was my other one the thigh master yeah so thigh which by the way RIP to the queen um but I still I feel like I've seen a thigh master recently at like a Rite Aid or something so I think it might still be out there and I don't

know who's doing that still like sitting sitting on their couch, just pretending to work out while eating cereal for dinner. But I mean, more power to you. I have so many unfond memories of those commercials. I have nightmares. Well, the Thighmaster ones. The whole like premise was that you could just kind of be like a lazy piece of shit while you're like kind of be like a lazy piece of shit while you're like kind of right like you're like it's working out but you're still you're just like laying there

kind of half working oh and they had the ones where they were like electrocuting you oh yeah muscle spasm that's the best it's like oh I don't have to move you'll just electrocute me into getting fit I'm here for it. Honestly, I probably would have bought that. If that was like an Instagram ad back in the day, I am very gullible with that kind of stuff. I'm so gullible. I'm so gullible. I recently got swindled at a mall kiosk for cell phone cases in Vegas.

So I'm like a walking. What did you get? I got two cases for $140. Were they gold maybe I should have more money maybe I need a money rehab right now early money rehab for just you and I should have asked like present day what is happening so one of them was supposed to be a charging case and I was there for Beyonce that day sure so you can't lose your phone exactly or you can't have your phone yeah die exactly so I was like this is great so I got one and then I also wanted a silver silvery case because I had already purchased a purple outfit and then she gave us with a note that we all had to wear silver to the concert and it was all sold

out it was a whole thing but I bought the a silver case like a glittery case and this charging one I get back to the hotel the charging case does not work literally just doesn't work and there's no time for me to go back it's time to go to the concert I was at 10% for all of Beyonce it was that's my worst night really it was like I it was bad damn you kiosk lady I know I know but they were they were fast talking and charming you know they always are I mean I think the flow bead, do you remember that? Or bump it? Of course. Oh, the bump it. I love it. Like who wants that? I remember when I started in television, I grew up in California, so I never like put makeup on or teased my hair was a thing that I discovered when I lived in Atlanta, worked at CNN and they like teased the shit out of my hair, which hurts so bad. Like my head hurt. I didn't know that that was like a look.

Yeah. I didn't have a bump it. My mom thankfully was a hairdresser. So she never let me go down that route, but I know I had many friends who had bump bits and it was, it was an interesting time. What a time to be alive. Bumpets and bow flexes and just thigh mastering. What a time. I mean, it really shows, like, anyone can start a business. No, truly, anyone can start a business. All right. The intellectual property for Winnie the Pooh, Justine,

is now part of the public domain. Yay. Which means that people can use the name and likeness of Winnie the Pooh for free. No license required. One of the first uses of the beloved children's character is to cast Winnie the Pooh as a sledgehammer wielding monster in a horror movie. What? I'm kind of into it. Leave Winnie alone.

I love garbage, though. I love trash. I saw New York Minute starring the Olsen twins twice in the theaters. Like, I love trash. So I will be seated for this. This is, I think, like, what is, cut off my notes, but blood and money? Something honey? Oh.

Blood and honey? Blood and honey. I don't know. Something like that. Is that what it's called? It feels, it feels too much. It's a lot but again i love trash i'm not saying this is gonna be good it's gonna be i think a nightmare but as a winnie

the pooh fan and a horror fan i have to see what they're cooking up oh my god i mean because we could all use winnie for free what project would you cast him in definitely pants because he has not been wearing them for uh as long as he's. Like, can we please get this guy some pants? Please. Like, maybe a Levi's deal or maybe even some skims for men, you know? Now you're even working on his, like, financial bottom line. I am. I know it's unintended.

I am. I'm trying to get him these brand deals. Let's get him. Get him a money rehab. Exactly. Put your clothes on. Exactly. Kind of sit in the chair.

Exactly. Cool. Yep. He's got secrets. He does. He has secrets. I mean, to wear a shirt and no pants for like this long. Decades.

Yeah, decades. All right. There's a fashion brand that just dropped a bag that's made out of 1% glass, 99% air using a NASA developed aerogel that's apparently the lightest solid on earth i can't even picture what that looks like so i did look and it looks just like this like clear kind of opaque back like it's just for concerts yes exactly it's like we've been doing this already i feel i did it at madonna on monday but here's madonna and beyonce oh yeah justine maybe i do need money rehab within the same six months hopefully you got these for free no i paid a lot of money for both of them okay okay here's the

thing is i don't ever like to wait around to see if I'll get the tickets for free because you don't normally know until closer to the concert date. Like I had a, I have a couple of friends who like day of will get tickets. You know, they got tickets to Beyonce and to Madonna, but I can't wait. If it's one of my top, top Queens, I'm, I'm, I'm in line ready to get tickets like day of sale. There were a lot of Queens this year. There were. Maybe we'll like

we broke the queen bank and now we just have that that's like a few years exactly like I didn't go to Taylor because I was like no disrespect but it's I've got Beyonce I've got Madonna and I don't want to end up in money rehab but here we are but oh but the air the air purse I just wanted to also note that this is the brand that also famously airbrushed an outfit onto Bella Hadid, like, live during a runway show. So they're really trying to make Air happen. And it's just not going to happen, guys. Like, let's just let it go. Air fashion is not going to happen.

I'm just calling it now. I mean, has capitalism just gone too far? I think so. With this one, for sure. Yeah. Hold on to your wallets. Money Rehab will be right back. One of the most stressful periods of my life was when I was in credit card debt.

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like a scramble, so I don't end up making time to make my house look guest-friendly. I guess that's the best way to put it. But I'm matching with a co-host, so I can still make that extra cash while also making it easy on myself. Find a co-host at airbnb.com slash host. And now for some more money rehab. Despite a third of people saying that destination weddings are selfish, millennials are planning destination weddings more and more often. If a couple is planning a destination wedding, should they be on the hook for everyone's travel and accommodation? couple is planning a destination wedding should they be on the hook for everyone's travel and accommodation Nicole I'm so glad you brought this up as someone who's had to do multiple destination weddings also I did a destination anniversary party in November I don't it's like

taking off work bachelorette parties yes you are a whole thing yes so I look I think a couple should be able to do whatever they want to do but you can't get mad also your friends hate you when you do this like just let it be known if you are planning a destination wedding we hate you we're gonna come if we love you for real but we hate doing it and resent it and talk shit about you all the way up until we get there basically so i don't know what i'm ringing your doors with yeah exactly i'm trying to save the rest of us a lot of money here here's the thing though i think also you have to make it clear on the invitation no gifts your presence is the present because i know a lot of people who still

expect a gift after and it's like if you think about a gift that's maybe a couple hundred bucks right this is like just bought a plane exactly plane ticket airfare um you know pet sitter kid if your kids can't cut you know all that kind of stuff sometimes you have to take off work to go it's a few days and then all of the you know the itinerary all the activities you have to do it's like a few thousand dollars the outfits i saw a girlfriend who was going to some africa wedding and they got a mood board of like the colors that they want for each of the events i'm like oh my god you have to wear a peach dress like where do you oh that's too much and i love my it's two of my best best friends who did the anniversary party but it was also very um like

my boyfriend had to buy, go buy an outfit cause it was disco themed and he needed a sequin blazer, you know? So it's like also the dictating of the, to me, you're just a control freak at that point, which my friend is, I would lovingly tell him that to his face. But, um, but yeah, I think do what you want to do, but don't get mad if your friends don't want to come and definitely make it clear that they don't have to buy a present I also feel like there's just too much wedding festivities happening too many wedding festivities are happening like the bridal party what's why is that different from the bachelorette party why do we need that and a rehearsal thing and exactly like I feel like back in the day because I feel like we're around the same age back in the day

it was like rehearsal dinner if you're in're in the wedding party or you're, like, close friends or family, and then just the wedding and the ceremony and the party, right? Like, that was it. There was no, now it's, like, days and days of celebration. It's too much. It's too much. Like, we get it.

We get it. Mazel tov. Yeah, exactly. CBS Studios and Paramount have been sued for discriminating against a straight white man. Brian Benneker, a script coordinator for the show Seal Team, alleges that he was repeatedly denied a staff writer job after the implementation of, quote, an illegal policy of race and sex balancing that promoted the hiring of, quote, less qualified applicants who were members of more preferred groups,

namely those who identify as minorities, LGBTQ, or women. He is seeking half a million dollars, as well as a court order, making him a full-time producer for the series. He is represented by America First Legal Foundation. It's a conservative group founded by a White House advisor under the Trump administration. Based on this story, I mean, how good do you think Brian Beneker is as a script supervisor? You know, to have the confidence to ask for half a million dollars because you didn't get a staff writing job being a strip, a script coordinator on a show like he better be top, top, top of the game. Because, I mean, first of all, I script coordinator. That's so different from being a writer on a show like a script coordinator.

Tell me. I don't know. So script coordinator basically makes sure the continuity is all there. Like, and that it will come together in the edit. So like making sure, you know, hair and makeup matches.

You know, if your arm was here, it needs to be there again. You know, just making sure that everything looks right from shot to shot and that everything

is consistent so that it can edit together and you won't see those little like, oh, her hair was tucked behind her ear here and it wasn't like as soon as it came back. Like those clear errors. Those are my favorite errors to spot. They're so fun.

So it's like, who really needs a script coordinator anyway? But that's what he does. So to think that he's just like owed this staff right, fucking get in line, buddy. Like, come on now, right? Like, do you know how many people want to be, come to LA to be screenwriters? Like, it's a ginormous number of people. So the fact that you're like suing them

because you didn't get the job, it's also the fact that you're demanding being a producer on this now, it's like no one's going to want to work with you, babe. Like, no one's going to to work with you babe like no one's gonna want you on set sorry I'm really glad you explained to me how this works because if I'm reading between the lines basically a script coordinator has no talent like yeah you're basically making not a writer exactly they're not a writer from what I know they are not a writer

they are just making and I was a tour guide at Universal Studios so this was something that I got to explain on the tour but you make sure that everything looks consistent and matches from shot to shot and you work with the different departments to make sure that all happens so you're not it's not a creative position I mean maybe his was some like incredible, I mean, from what I know, I don't think you're in the writers, like it would make sense more if he, if he was a writer's assistant and didn't get to move up, but this is just seems like a weird jump and like, he's just mad. And also buddy be someone's nephew or something. That's a sure way to get in. Right.

All out of a rich vagina. Exactly. Like, come on, man, get some of that Nepo baby credit going. I wish a girl could dream. Exactly. I didn't realize, Justine, that we had like the chief Universal Studios tour guide officer correspondent in our presence. Yep. I was a tour guide at Universal Studios for a pretty long time, most of my 20s, which is why I probably could have used money rehab back then somebody so you had to know about script coordination because somebody might have asked or it was part of the tour I can't imagine somebody being like excuse me no it wasn't it was just so sometimes so the tour you learn you basically you can go off script and stuff but you go through and talk about the things you're

seeing on the tour but a lot of times you get stuck when it's really backed up in the summer when it's really crowded, it can get backed up and you'll need to kind of just spew out facts when you're sitting there for like an extra 10 minutes if there's a tram broken down in front of you. So yeah, we just learned all these like movie making and TV making facts so that you can just spew stuff and keep people entertained and learning about the movie industry while you're stuck on a tram. The expert. I feel like Universal should have surge pricing. Oh, that makes so much sense. That makes perfect sense to me. It really does because also, well, don't do, don't they? I mean like the last time i've been to disneyland i mean if you have a pass for example during certain peak periods at disney like they're blacked out so you

can't go so it's kind of like surge pricing because you have to pay to go i guess i'm sure there must be i think it must be something where there's it's more expensive on different dates because even during halloween horror nights, because again, I'm the expert, certain nights are more expensive. Like as you get closer to Halloween and more into October, they're pricier than if you go end of September or right when it starts. Also like Sunday nights, the Friday, Saturdays, those are the most expensive days.

But if you go a weeknight, a Sunday night, those are a little bit cheaper. I'm so honored to be in your place i have a thousand questions about jaws oh yes please ask later i don't think anyone else wants to know also i love deals so like i'm always we'll get to it yeah kfc is bringing a limited time entree to its american menus that combines two popular dishes, pizza and fried chicken. They're calling the product Chizza. Cheesa?

Cheetza? Cheetza? Chicken and pizza smushed together? It's going to consist of two fried chicken fillets topped with marinara sauce, mozzarella cheese, and crispy pepperoni. You're not trying this because you're vegan. I'm vegan, but I'm vegan so I won't be trying it. But if I can imagine I was once a pizza, chicken, pepperoni eater,

I would be curious to taste it just because I wonder. Just for the story. it just because I wonder just for the story um but I have to say this feels like they're flying a little too close to the sun on this one you know like fried chicken is amazing pizza is amazing but sometimes when you put two greats together it's it's just too much you know what I mean like like think about the Sandra Bullock movie all about Steve right it's just too much. You know what I mean? Like think about the Sandra Bullock movie all about Steve, right? It's like Bradley Cooper, Sandra Bullock

together the movie bombed, right? Gigli, Ben and Jen. Like it's just sometimes I think it's better to keep things separate. It's just too much that we can't handle it if it's two really amazing things

put together. Yeah, it's also like a heart attack. Yes, that too. Justine, we end all of our episodes by asking our guests Two really amazing things put together. Yeah. It's also like a heart attack. Yes. That too. Justine, we end all of our episodes by asking our guests for a tip listeners can take straight to the bank. It can be anything. Saving money on stuff, deals, budgeting, deals, investing, anything.

Waiting if you can till like Black Friday or even just that week because the sales start so early now. The sales start like as soon as it becomes November. They're like Black Friday deals. It's like Halloween ends and we're into Black Friday basically. So I would say if there's something you really want, especially like an electronic, TV, Roomba, vacuums, all that kind of stuff, blenders, wait if you can till Black Friday because there are some good deals out there. And just in general, I think if something's not going to sell out that you really want, just wait for the deal. Money Rehab is a production of Money News Network. I'm your host, Nicole Lappin. Money Rehab's executive producer is Morgan Levoy. Our researcher is Emily Holmes.

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