Listen Money Matters - Free Your Inner Financial Badass. All The Stuff You Should Know About Personal Finance.

Travis Pizel from Enemy of Debt tells us how he and his wife accumulated $109,000 of credit card debt through lack of communication and how they paid off the debt and strengthened their relationship in the process. HOW does a couple accumulate that much debt?  Buying Faberge Eggs, eating panda steaks marinated in unicorn tears?  The answer is pretty mundane.  Never budgeting, never tracking spending, vacations, dinners out, and perhaps the biggest problem, never discussing money. Travis and his wife both had good jobs and always figured the next pay raise would put them in a position of eventually having enough money that they couldn’t possibly spend it all.  But that never happened and eventually Travis began to insulate his wife from how bad it had become.  Opening the bills after everyone had gone to bed, shifting balances to newly opened cards, asking for limit increases on existing cards. The watershed moment came when Travis got five identical letters from a company that he had five different cards w