{"id":458211,"date":"2026-02-06T19:39:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/458211\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T19:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:39:37","slug":"money-tips-no-one-taught-you-life-kit-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/458211\/","title":{"rendered":"Money tips no one taught you : Life Kit : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770406777_803_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/2000x1125+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fbc%2F4a%2F621bbd794b9c98ab3982889d77bb%2Fe4bbdd08-93b2-43a1-90c7-50ad399f364e.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"A photo collage shows a cutout of Benjamin Franklin from the one hundred dollar bill, with a &quot;shh&quot; finger collaged over his face, implying a financial secret. The portrait of Franklin is over cobalt brushstrokes isolated against a light purple background.\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>You have a budget and an emergency fund (or at least know you need both) &#8211; but you want to go deeper. What else do you need to know about managing your money? Ever heard of capturing the carry on your debt, for example? Finance experts share their top tips on handling debt, investing, taxes and more.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Instagram:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nprlifekit\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@nprlifekit<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/newsletter\/life-kit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up for our newsletter here.<\/a><br \/>Have an episode idea or feedback you want to share? Email us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/02\/03\/nx-s1-5697370\/mailto:lifekit@npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">lifekit@npr.org<\/a><br \/>Support the show and listen to it sponsor-free by signing up for Life Kit+ at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/plus.npr.org\/lifekit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">plus.npr.org\/lifekit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You have a budget and an emergency fund (or at least know you need both) &#8211; but you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,131,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-458211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}