Yoga and Netflix:What a speech pathologist on $75,000 spends in a week

Yoga and Netflix:What a speech pathologist on $75,000 spends in a week

This week on Money Diaries,a graduate speech pathologist spends on some hot yoga classes and vodka,lime and sodas.

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