PODCAST: Your Year-End Financial To-Do List

David Muhlbaum: So, you want next year to be better? Start out on the right foot by getting to those financial tasks that must be done before this year ends. Hey, it'll save you money. Associate editor Rivan Stinson also joins us to talk about a variety of gadgets to extend backyard entertaining into the winter.

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David Muhlbaum: Welcome to Your Money's Worth. I'm Kiplinger.com senior editor David Muhlbaum, joined by senior editor Sandy Block. Sandy, how are you?

Sandy Block: Doing great, David.

David Muhlbaum: That's good. Well, we are shaking things up just a smidge this week by having a guest join us for our opening segment, about good gadgets to make pandemic safe entertaining possible. That guest is Rivan Stinson, associate editor for Kiplinger.com. She's one of the writers of a piece featured in January's Kiplinger's Personal Finance called How To Safely Socialize and Work At Home During the Pandemic. Welcome, Rivan.

Rivan Stinson: Thank you.

David Muhlbaum: So the three of us are recording from our respective homes right now, and with any luck, the leaf blowers won't show up during our chat. But I mention this because it's directly relevant to the piece you helped pull together, How To Safely Socialize and Work At Home. We do all kinds of things from home now.

Rivan Stinson: Right. And we've been adjusting for months, and now we have to adjust to the snow and the cold weather. So you have to think of how can I have people over but not necessarily in my house, because we are still very cautious about COVID transmissions and just being in close quarters. So what me and my coworkers, Emma Patch and Andrea Browne Taylor did, we put together a collection of products to help you make the outside more like inside, because everyone's not going to pull on their fleece and waterproof camping gear like you would, David.

David Muhlbaum: Yeah. I think Sandy embraces ugly weather too. Don't you? Don't you have to, what with being in West Virginia?

Well, I don't know if I embrace it but I certainly endure it. And I feel like I need to point out at this juncture that in West Virginia, we've had our furniture outside for a long time. We're