I'd like to welcome you to the Clark Howard Show where we're here for you and your wallet.

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Coming up in a half hour, we're going to talk about something that I have not talked about

in a long time.

And that's the right way to buy a tablet, whether it's an iPad or an Android tablet, whatever.

It's something that I used to get a lot of questions about tablets have become less

important because of the tablets, but there are still great uses for tablets.

A lot of times for kids that are at an age that you don't want them to have a phone yet

is one of the main uses of a tablet.

And some people use them as a passive device to be able to read.

I'm going to talk about that and video consumption.

I'm going to talk about that in just 30 minutes.

I'm going to talk now about your wallet, something directly impacting it.

And it is a curse of the modern era.

It is when you are being auto-build or you're actually auto-paying where money is disappearing

from your checking account every month.

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