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Today's expression, oh, I like it, to make ends meet.

To make M-A-K-E-N-E-N-D-S meet, M-E-E-E-T. So, an end. Imagine this. You have a string, a piece of string, like a shoe string.

And you have, if you stretch out the shoe string, you have two ends, right? Yeah, you've got one on the left and one on the right, two ends. Or let's say you have a meter stick, a stick that is one meter long. You have two ends. One end says

zero millimeters. The other end says, what, 100 millimeters? No, that's 10. A thousand millimeters,

or 100 centimeters or one meter. That's the other end, right? So, to make ends meet means to take

those two ends and bring them together so they meet, so they touch, so they can say hi.

To make ends meet, we're not talking about a shoe string.

We're not talking about a meter stick. We're talking about your money.

So think about your money. Every month, you have money that comes in and you have money that goes

out. Do you understand?

Your income and your expenses.

So hopefully your income is the same as your expenses.

If you're lucky, your income is more than your expenses. If you're lucky, your income is more than your expenses. Then you can save money.

Do you understand? So if your income is the same as your expenses, you are making ends meet. The outgoing money is the same as the

ingoing money. They're the same. They come together as the same minus and

positive as the same. You're making ends meet. You are surviving. You're

doing okay. You're not doing great, but you're doing okay.

That's how I'm doing. I'll be honest. About 10 years ago, I was doing really good, but then I had some difficulties and I wasn't able to make ends meet. I was

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