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STORY ANGLES - Focus on personal conflict: Stories often center on interpersonal tensions, particularly within families or relationships, tied to money or lifestyle.
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 27
- Latest publication
- Sep 30, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Slate
- Top 50K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 8, 2026
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My Brother-in-Law Has Been Taking Advantage of Us for Months. But What I Found on My Credit Card Statement Is the Last Straw. (opens the original)
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Pay Dirt is Slate’s money advice column. Have a question? Send it to Kristin and Ilyce here. (It’s anonymous!) My husband, “Mike,” and I let his brother, “Dan,” move in with us after Dan’s divorce wiped him out. Seven months have gone by and it’s not working out, to put it mildly. He has been drinking more and more, doesn’t pay rent, got fired from his job back in May when he failed to show up for work for the eighth time because he was too shitfaced to get up, and thinks it’s hilarious to teach
My Sister-in-Law Demanded We Give Up Our Expensive Room on Vacation. Her Reasoning Doesn’t Hold Up. (opens the original)
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Pay Dirt is Slate’s money advice column. Have a question? Send it to Kristin and Ilyce here. (It’s anonymous!) My wife and her younger sister are (were?) best friends. They talked almost every day, and we got together with her and her husband several times a month. For many years, we have all celebrated each of theirs birthdays with a weekend trip to a city several hours away. The birthday gift between them is that the other couple will buy the supper one night of the couple whose wife is having
There’s a Solution for My Mom’s Limited Retirement Money. It Goes Against What I Was Raised to Believe. (opens the original)
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Pay Dirt is Slate’s money advice column. Have a question? Send it to Kristin and Ilyce here. (It’s anonymous!) My mother is 83, fairly healthy, has no debt, and lives modestly to frugally on a fixed income (Social Security and a small pension). She rents an apartment and has no assets to speak of. There are some months when she overextends (due to medical expenses that pop up or the bane of inflation), and she must dip into her depleting savings (about $15,000). Without my support, at this rate
I Accidentally Found Out a Secret About My Brother’s Financial Life. I Want to Offer My Help, But There’s a Catch. (opens the original)
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Pay Dirt is Slate’s money advice column. Have a question? Send it to Kristin and Ilyce here. (It’s anonymous!) My parents died recently and I was the executor of their estate. I only have one sibling, a younger brother. I disbursed our inheritance earlier this year, and we each came away with about $300,000. Recently, when I was checking our estate case docket with a public search of our county clerk’s website, I learned that my brother is being sued to collect on a credit card debt! The amoun
I Happily Paid All of My Girlfriend’s Housing and Travel Costs for Two Years. Then I Learned Something Outrageous. (opens the original)
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Pay Dirt is Slate’s money advice column. Have a question? Send it to Kristin and Ilyce here. (It’s anonymous!) My girlfriend, “Lara,” and I have been together for three years and living together for two. She earns a modest wage in an admin job, and I make roughly triple her salary. We live in a condo that I bought before we met. As I make so much more than Lara and was comfortably paying for everything myself before she moved in, we agreed that I would continue paying all the housing expenses, a
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