August consumer confidence dips in US with jobs, tariffs and high prices driving most unease

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6. We're just going to let it pass us by this year.

We'll have auto insurance on 2 cars, and the 2nd half of the property tax on the house due that month. On SS alone, it's going to be doing all I can do to keep us in enough food for the month, let alone do a "christmas" for anyone. Thank goodness, we really don't have any "little" kids in the family any longer. This one's going to be a hard Xmas, anyway... the first one without Mom here.