Credit: This illustration picture shows the cash stuffing TikTok trend, videos where people put cash in envelopes as a budgeting method, displayed on a smartphone in D.C., plus manicured fingers meticulously placing cash in transparent envelopes marked "food," "gas" and other categories, demonstrating in a TikTok video a retro technique for controlling what you spend that is popular with some money-conscious Americans. Returning to cash to control spending may be old fashioned, but in an era of high inflation, a growing number of consumers finds that it works. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP)
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