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From the Ted Talk by Wendy De La Rosa: 3 psychological tricks to help you save money
Unscramble the Blue Letters
We aren't machines. We don't carry around an abuacs every day, adding up what we're spending, in coarimpson to what we watend. But what our brains are very good at is cntounig up the number of times we've done something. So I gave myself a limit. I can only use ride-sharing apps three times a week. It forced me to ration my tvrleas. I got a handle on my car-sharing expenses to the benefit of my husband, because of the environmental changes that I did. So get a handle on whatever that purchase is for you, and change your environment to make it harder to do so.
Open Cloze
We aren't machines. We don't carry around an ______ every day, adding up what we're spending, in __________ to what we ______. But what our brains are very good at is ________ up the number of times we've done something. So I gave myself a limit. I can only use ride-sharing apps three times a week. It forced me to ration my _______. I got a handle on my car-sharing expenses to the benefit of my husband, because of the environmental changes that I did. So get a handle on whatever that purchase is for you, and change your environment to make it harder to do so.
Solution
- comparison
- counting
- wanted
- abacus
- travels
Original Text
We aren't machines. We don't carry around an abacus every day, adding up what we're spending, in comparison to what we wanted. But what our brains are very good at is counting up the number of times we've done something. So I gave myself a limit. I can only use ride-sharing apps three times a week. It forced me to ration my travels. I got a handle on my car-sharing expenses to the benefit of my husband, because of the environmental changes that I did. So get a handle on whatever that purchase is for you, and change your environment to make it harder to do so.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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