@LiveMoney: Love, money, and storm hoarding
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On Valentine’s Day week, we dip into the archives to bring back a few stories of when love and money intersect:
Learning financial intimacy: What’s your money type?
And the big news around the Twittersphere this week was how winter storms is shutting down the southeast U.S. We asked what people were doing to prepare:
@LiveMoney @MarketplaceAPM Have wine & Sherlock. All’s good in the #QC.
— Princess Small (@Prinny_Small) February 13, 2014
@LiveMoney @MarketplaceAPM We bought a case of bottled water just in case. Other than that, we made no other changes. #snowbtv
— frisbeemcjingle (@frisbeemcjingle) February 13, 2014
Never understood people in the South who clear grocery shelves & act like world is ending. It usually warms up in a few days. @LiveMoney
— Sara G (@SaraOnTheGo) February 13, 2014
@LiveMoney @MarketplaceAPM – Too much snow + cold = stuck inside lots w/my toddler. Prepped for this storm with some wine for mommy :-p
— akashagrrl (@akashagrrl) February 13, 2014
Who knew you needed to be snowed in to drink wine and binge-watch Netflix?
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