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💵 Today’s Top Stories |
| | Looking for new ways to save on groceries? This grocery shopping guide will give you some big ideas to save more, spend less and keep your food budget on track. Read more. |
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| | Clark advocates for buying used EVs if you don’t travel far day-to-day and the battery is still under warranty. Here are four good, inexpensive used EV models. Read more. |
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| | Team Clark spent 50 hours on survey websites to give you an honest look at how much you can actually earn. See how much – or how little – we made, and what we learned about the gig. Read more. |
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| | These companies pay you cash and you still retain your shares. Is this the secret sauce to the best possible investment portfolio? Or are there unforeseen downsides? Read more. |
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💻️ Tech Tip From Kim Komando |
Turning off alerts from your video doorbell is a mistake: Instead, set up custom motion zones. On a Ring doorbell, open the Ring app and select your device. Go to Motion Settings > Edit Motion Settings. To go into full don’t-bug-me mode, choose People Only. Join 575K people who get tech smart with my friend Kim Komando’s free newsletter, The Current. |
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🛍️ A New, Unappealing Twist To ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ |
DoorDash partnered with Klarna last week, offering customers the chance to use Pay in 4 on groceries, retail and food delivery. |
Yes, you can now order a Big Mac from McDonald’s and pay in four equal interest-free installments.* |
*Equal assuming you set up automated payments or you remember to manually pay on time for each installment. |
Not long ago, you couldn’t get food delivered to your front door. Now you can buy it with money you may not have … without using a credit card. |
Clark is on record as not having an affinity toward the DoorDash companies of the world. But he can’t stand Pay in 4, otherwise known as “buy now, pay later.” |
Buying a Happy Meal for a couple of kids sans cash or credit card may sound harmless. But the potential negative consequences of missing payments include wrecking your credit, paying late fees, paying interest and generally spending too much money (that you don’t have). |
“These things have so many negative consequences to them. I don’t want to be Scrooge, but these things are playing with fire,” Clark says. |
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📊 Stat of the Day |
🏀 $6.1 billion: The amount that the famed NBA franchise Boston Celtics fetched in a sale. It’s the biggest price tag ever for a North American sports franchise, beating the Washington Commanders (formerly Redskins) at $6.05 billion. It’s another signal that sports media rights continue to be extremely valuable. |
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💰️ Deal Alert: Today’s Top Deals |
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🎙️ Podcast |
 | Full Show: Will Social Security Go Away? and The Power of Living Below Your Means |
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Will Social Security run out? Clark addresses this concern and shares a new rule you need to know before applying for Social Security benefits. Also, Clark was recently inspired by an obituary for Bob Kierlin, a CEO who may have been more frugal than Clark himself! |
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☎️ Need Money Help? |
The Team Clark Consumer Action Center is a free helpline that can help you navigate your money questions. Call 636-492-5275. Visit clark.com/cac for more information. |
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