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Only a crash diet will plug hole in budget

By KIPKOECH TANUI

You know there is a mismatch between your consumption and earnings when you start counting the coins. You know inflation has sunk its teeth in you when you wince at the supermarket till because the few items on your wire-basket cost Sh3,000. It pains you that two years ago, for such an amount, you needed a trolley.

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