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Kim Brindell and five of her closest friends have known each other for over 20 years

They had always dreamed of going on more vacations together, but budgeting and the logistics of paying each other back added a lingering stress

On one of their first group trips, a friend came up with the idea of creating a shared bank account for their vacations - and they have never looked back

Three years ago, on a weekend getaway to Hobart, Australia, six women in their early to mid-30s found themselves tangled in the all-too-familiar post-trip math of splitting bills.

After hours of trying to figure out who owed what, one of them suggested a simple solution: what if they had one shared bank account just for their group trips? The idea stuck.

Since then, Kim Brindell, 34, and her fri

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