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It's great to have you here on the Clark Howard show where it's all about you and your wallet.

I want you to learn ideas for me that will help you save more and spend less and don't

let anyone ever rip you off.

Just a second I'm going to talk about a way to protect yourself from a common ripoff

coming up in 20 minutes.

We're going to talk about what's known informally as the pink tax.

It is so Clark Rages that women pay so much more than men for the identical item.

And later I have more info for you on how to reduce the cost of many medical procedures.

And we're going to talk about ways you can do that that are pretty easy for you to take

control of your wallet and that's a half hour from now.

I want to talk about a problem that has come up on our show numerous times over the years

and that is where somebody rifles through your mail and steals something that you never

even knew was on its way to you.

And then they can cause all kinds of havoc in your life, sealing a credit card statement

or who knows what they grab out of your mailbox.

Well the postal service has a new technology to deal with this.

I tried a very old one at my house.

We were having a problem about 10 years ago.

Someone was rifling through our mail repeatedly and I was having a number of problems as a

result of that and I bought a locking mailbox and the problem stopped after I got the locking

mailbox.

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