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How We’re Making Life Work Without Cutting Everything

Tide Pods are $30. Gas is $5.50 a gallon. Streaming services somehow cost as much as cable now… and one of us is unemployed.

So no — we’re not cutting everything.

We’re making trades.

In this episode of the High Five Hot Mess Podcast, we talk about the emotional math women are doing right now to keep life working without giving up every single thing that still brings joy.

We talk about:

✋ cutting cable but keeping the trip

✋ making homemade laundry detergent

✋ grocery store sticker shock

✋ spin classes during unemployment

✋ subscriptions quietly draining money

✋ how Lisa used ChatGPT to audit…

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