Welcome to the Clark Howard Show where it's about you and your wallet.

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

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Starting up in today's Clark Regis moment, Verizon has done a bad thing.

I'm going to tell you what you need to be aware of if you are considering switching to Verizon

or you are an existing Verizon customer.

And later yet this hour, there are some things Amazon is doing to try to encourage you to

do more gift buying this holiday season with Amazon.

And think about what I just said.

I am part of the problem.

This is the third time in a week.

I have talked about this being the Christmas shopping season or Christmas holiday season.

And it's barely, barely fall.

Or yeah, I guess barely.

Or in the next day or two or something.

I should know that.

You know what's funny?

When you have kids, fall to you is whatever day kids go back to school.

Even if some of the school systems that go back now in late July, for those parents,

that's the beginning of fall.

But anyway, Christmas is underway whether you like it or not.

And I'm going to keep you up to date on the trends that could be your friend or your foe

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