How has your money flow changed since the stay at home situation?

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43. Different distribution

Gas has gotten about 15% cheaper, and we're hardly using any of it anyway. We rarely eat out, so no real change there. We sometimes go for weekend getaways to nearby cities (Prague, Budapest, Hamburg, Barcelona, etc.) and have cut that out. No capricious shopping for fun (but expensive) foods and desserts to bring home from places I visit on working day trips (e.g. Zürich, Paris, Brussels). On the other hand, we have used the savings to do decades-overdue replacement for parts of the house that we just never got around to.

I have not been able to leave Germany for over a month now, and it is frankly ridiculous that I am still being paid at all. Even the countries I visit for work every week are still locked down, so even if Germany loosened up more than it has, it wouldn't do me any good. In other words, I'm being paid as a charity case for work I have not done, mostly in recognition of 45 (this August) straight years of nonstop service. I'm not ready to retire (I'm only 68), but everyone concerned knows this can't continue for long. Hurry up and wait.