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Lots of people are asking me, how do you stretch your dollar right now with the end of the pandemic, not very clear as to how long is going to be going on and so I gave that a little thought here are my tips first so if there is no magic bullet it's always tough to

stretch money when you don't have enough to pay all of your expenses.

It's stressful. And so I wish I had a magic answer, but I would suggest that you first off

negotiate all of your fixed expenses.

For most of us, our fixed expenses are about two-thirds of everything we need to pay for.

Those include mostly rental mortgage, insurance, loan payments, and utility bills. You should pick up the phone with each of those

suppliers and tell them that you want to negotiate to a lower payment, a lesser amount, pay a little less now, pay more later, whatever terms

you can work out. And the reason for that is because people are going to listen right now.

Suppliers are very accustomed to get phone calls and if you are sincere in your

presentation and can well express that you really have a need they will

listen and you'll be able to reduce those payments substantially.

The next section of what we all spend money on is called discretionary spending, and that's

only about a third of what we typically spend.

But make a list of everything you spend money on with the odd things, the many little things.

Because if you actually make a list and sit down and look at the list,

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