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I'm so glad you're with us here on the Clark Howard Show where it's about you learning ways to save more and spend less.

And don't let anyone ever rip you off.

Clark.com is our website ClarkDeals.com is our bargain site and speaking of bargains, we're kicking the Clark Rage's moment to the curb today.

And we're going to talk about deals for Mother's Day.

Now why would I talk about Mother's Day this far ahead?

Because to get deals and to show you are thinking ahead, you want to buy all the deals that are available now way ahead of time for Mom.

So I'm going to give you that in just 20 minutes.

And later this hour, the Department of Veterans Affairs is going to send, the VA is going to send veterans who they are not getting to,

not serving in VA facilities.

They're going to send them to nursing box places.

I'm going to share how I feel about that coming up in a half hour.

Right now, I want to talk about something that may seem trivial.

But it's one of those things that really appeals to people.

And it involves what razor you buy.

And I told you two weeks ago that we were going to try and experiment across my radio TV and digital staffs.

And so we had 12 volunteers who agreed to put to a test a shaver that I bought at Dollar Tree.

Two for a dollar, so 50 cents a blade.

To compare it to what each of us was used to using.

And we would have had more than 12 testers, but several people begged off and didn't want to be part of this test.

A shaving was too personal to them.

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