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This is a spendy time of year, isn't it?

On average, respondents to a recent Gallup poll said they expect to spend more than a thousand

dollars personally on Christmas and holiday gifts this year.

You might also be dropping money on flights or trains or gas to get to family gatherings.

And yeah, it adds up.

So this felt like a good moment for some counter programming.

On this episode of Life Kit, we bring you five tips on how to save money in December and throughout the year.

And this is not an exhaustive list, of course, but it's a start, because most of us don't

have unlimited funds.

And when we find ways to save money, we give ourselves the freedom to spend intentionally

on the things we really want.

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Breakup stories are going super viral online.

Normalize posting why you broke up on the internet.

I cannot believe I'm about to tell this breakup story and expose myself like this.

On It's Been a Minute, we're asking the big questions about dating.

Like, what's the line between a juicy story and an invasion of privacy?

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