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Why disaster survivors maintain old spending habits

Six months after losing everything I still buy groceries like I am feeding a family of four even though it is just me now living in this studio apartment.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Muscle memory of previous life circumstances persists in daily behaviors as psychological resistance to accepting changed reality.

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“Where Are You with Financial recovery after disaster?”

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