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Last week I got gasoline for the first time since the end of February. We were used to filling up 2 SUVs each week before that. Probably $100 per week. Saved: 6 mo x 4 x 100 = $2400. I haven’t visited the beautician at all since end of February. I used to spend about $150 a mo (including tip.) 7 x $150 = $1050. We used to eat dinner out at least 3 times a week, and lunch 2x per week. 2 Lunch ($40) and 3 dinner ($75). 26 weeks x $115 = $2990 (we’ll say $3000.) No new makeup, ($30) no new clothes ($200) , no gifts for Svea ($150), no theaters or concerts ($500) = $880 No traveling. We canceled Ed’s 50th reunion from Harvard in Boston. I did not go to my step father’s funeral in MN. I didn’t visit my sister in NY, or Kent in PA. We didn’t visit the Schoenhals’ in Michigan. All these were planned. I will estimate this at $4000. That comes to: 2400 1050 3000 880 4000 ______ $11,330 No matter what I have saved, it doesn’t equal the quality of life I have given up during the pandemic. Thank God for Zoom and my friends. --Cynthia
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