The Joint Account

The Joint Account

Amazon is the black hole in your budget

Though it comes with a smile, it's costing more than you think.

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Heather and Douglas Boneparth
Apr 21, 2026
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Pull up your credit card statement right now. Scroll through the last 30 days. Count how many lines just say AMAZON followed by a dollar amount.

I’ll wait.

If you’re anything like the couples I work with, you’ve got a whole lot of those charges, and they tell you almost nothing. They’re an incomplete story.

What “AMAZON.COM: $263.47” doesn’t tell you is t…

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