02.10.25 Housing & Transportation Costs / 2025 Traffic

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In today’s episode - It’s a nightmare to feel like you’re in over your head financially. Clark discusses the money traps that accompany our two largest monthly expenses: housing and transportation costs - and how to avoid them. Also - 2025 is bringing back pre-Covid work culture, including more return-to-office mandates. That and other factors mean heavier metro traffic. Clark has a commuter strategy to keep in mind. Housing & Vehicle Costs: Segment 1 Ask Clark: Segment 2 2025 Traffic: Segment 3 Ask Clark: Segment 4 Mentioned on the show: Submit a complaint | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau The Safer Way To Use Your Debit Card Why You Should Never Use a Debit Card To Pay for Anything MEFA (Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority) College Cost Projector Tuition Inflation - Finaid How to Take the Car Keys Away From Unsafe Elderly Florida Drivers How To Buy a Used Car Clark.com resources Episode transcripts Community.Clark.com / Ask Clark Clark.com daily money newsletter Consumer Action Center Free Helpline: 636-492-5275 Learn more about your ad choices: megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.3	show. You know, our mission is to serve you with advice and information that empowered I'm so glad you're with us here on the Clark Howard Show.
0:37.7	You know, our mission is to serve you with advice and information that empowers you so you make better financial decisions in your life.
0:46.3	And remember, we're here to help you so many ways, including with one-on-one free advice from our Team Clark Consumer Action Center, something
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1:14.7	So today's episode, there's nothing worse than feeling like you're drowning financially
1:21.5	when it comes to money.
1:23.1	There are worse things in life.
1:24.2	But I mean money where you just feel like the bills just come at you,
1:29.5	bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
1:31.7	I'm going to talk about that.
1:33.7	And coming up later, it's not your imagination that traffic is increasing a lot right now.
1:42.7	And I want to talk about what that trend is and what you may or may not
1:50.4	be able to do about it. So, wow, the twin towers of monthly expenses, where you put a roof over your
2:00.0	head and what you drive.
2:02.7	And I've talked in the past about with a house, right now, obviously buying a house is such a
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