Julia Carpenter
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3,850 appearances
71 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2019
last heard Sep 2024
Julia Carpenter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Couples Take On CFO, COO Roles to Handle Household Tasks · 22 Aug 2023
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The reality of day-to-day living is just chaos.
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There's a lot to do, especially if people have kids, have other caregiving responsibilities, both people are working busy jobs.
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There's just not enough time in the day to make a new list every day and divide a new set of chores every day.
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Simple sounds nice, but as one expert I spoke to said, for a lot of couples, the reality of day-to-day living is just chaos.
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There's a lot to do, especially if people have kids, have other caregiving responsibilities, both people are working busy jobs.
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There's just not enough time in the day to make a new list every day and divide a new set of chores every day.
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This is the person who's in charge of the day-to-day running of the household.
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I like to say this is the person who's making sure that the trains run on time.
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They're booking the appointments.
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They're managing the calendar.
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They're keeping their eye on what needs to happen next.
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It's a very crucial role to keep things moving.
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The CFO handles the money, but it's also just not as simple as like they're the one who pays the bills.
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They're the one who's doing the budgeting.
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They're the one who's managing the investments.
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They're the one who's price comparison shopping or making sure that, you know, that next big purchase is actually within reach.
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So when I've spoken with couples who do this, they say that it works because they each have their own sphere of control.
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So a lot of where conflict arises in a relationship around money is when both people don't really agree about what to do or don't agree about how to do something.
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So when you go ahead and agree you're in charge of operations, you're in charge of finances, that gives each of you your own sense of autonomy.
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It preserves that autonomy that we really kind of sacrifice when we combine finances and decide to combine financial futures.
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