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Thursday 22 May 2025

What are you saving for or saving from?

Both are answers. — asked by Petra

PerrinNice, FR

It stops me thinking about anything else some weeks.

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Ozren No advice, just: I am sorry. That sounds hard.

NellaUtrecht, NL

Found a hardship fund at my university that I did not know existed.

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Birdie BWhitstable, UK

Nothing this month. I am fortunate and I know it.

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OsgarKillarney, IE

Told my partner what it actually costs. That conversation was four months overdue.

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EdwynNewcastle, UK

Price went up mid-year and I had a very unglamorous evening with a calculator.

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Sonia Same here on the four o clock waking. No fix, but you are not alone in it.

OsipTbilisi, GE

My employer's plan turned out to cover it. A year of assuming otherwise.

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PosyChichester, UK

No subsidy where I am, so it is just the number, every month, indefinitely.

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PerrineStrasbourg, FR

Three months at a time is cheaper here, if you can find the money for three months at once.

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