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Most Americans couldn't pay a $400 bill. Then came a new savings account
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- Then came a new savings account Andrea Riquier, USA TODAY Tue, June 23, 2026 at 5:03 PM GMT+7 5 min read Amber Comber, a single mother of two twentysomething sons "eating me out of house and home," had hit a rough patch.
- Comber, now 53, was an assistant manager at The Fresh Market’s Charlotte, North Carolina, store when she started scraping and pinching to buy a home.
- "It was hard, with the mortgage and the taxes and all the things," Comber said.
Most Americans couldn't pay a $400 bill. Then came a new savings account Andrea Riquier, USA TODAY Tue, June 23, 2026 at 5:03 PM GMT+7 5 min read Amber Comber, a single mother of two twentysomething sons "eating me out of house and home," had hit a rough patch.
Comber, now 53, was an assistant manager at The Fresh Market’s Charlotte, North Carolina, store when she started scraping and pinching to buy a home.
"It was hard, with the mortgage and the taxes and all the things," Comber said. Shortly after she bought her home, she and her sons went away for the weekend, and returned to discover the refrigerator, fully stocked with brand-new food, had stopped running.
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