“The pandemic has made me austere,” said Kaushik, whose wife has been living in Delhi, India, for more than two years to care for her parents. He can cover all of his monthly expenses using roughly half his paycheck, and he saves the rest. Every expense, he said, goes through a mental filter: Is it essential? “This was not the case pre-pandemic,” he added.
The pandemic has changed how people spend money. Here are some lessons learned.
