I'm glad you're with us here on the Clark Howard Show where it's all about you and that

while I was yours.

I want you to learn ideas to me so you can keep more of what you have.

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And I want to tell you if you're snacking on something right now or you're eating.

Well, I might make you a little upset.

So this is a story from the Detroit Free Press that people are driving their vehicles so

little.

Many people are driving the vehicle so little and there are people who are going days or

even a week or more weeks without driving right now.

And their vehicles are being taken over by new tenants.

This is really awful.

But auto mechanics around the country are reporting that vehicles are being very heavily

damaged at great cost by rats and other rodents invading the spaces and unused vehicles.

So this is a quote from one mechanic that he has seen 12 to 15 vehicles damaged this

way in the last six weeks because of the rodents moving into vehicles.

There was a story in the New York Times about a dealership that had five people calling

one week to complain about rats living in their car engine.

Oh, my goodness.

So I said it before about making sure you're maintaining your vehicle by getting out and

driving it regularly.

And my oldest child did not drive her vehicle for several weeks.

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