I'm so glad to welcome you to the Clark Howard Show where it's all about you and your wallet.

I want you to learn ideas to me so you can keep more of what you make coming up in a few

minutes.

How would you feel if the federal agency watchdog looking out for you was actually helping

a company pedal a card with all kinds of fees?

It is a true Clark rage.

Just wait till you hear what the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been up to.

And coming up later, contact lenses have gone up by huge amounts in recent years as

the industry has engaged in cartel kind of practices like OPEC.

Want to tell you about the fight going on for your eyes and the attempts to offer lower

prices for contact lenses, what you need to know coming up later.

Our main websites, Clark.com, and we have a question for me, and go to Clark.com slash

ask.

I want to talk to you about something that when I brought it up in our pre-show staff meeting

where people from our websites and from TV and our office center all together of the

things that we discussed recently, nothing generated more animated conversation and talking

over each other than what I'm about to share with you.

There is a movement around the country where people are pulling up perfectly good lawns

putting down fake grass.

And my middle brother did this where he has now a yard of fake grass, looks beautiful.

And it has fake weeds in it and other things so that it looks more like real grass on

that lawn.

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