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    "type": "post",
    "title": "Should You Still Go Home For Undas If You Cannot Afford It",
    "slug": "should-you-still-go-home-for-undas-if",
    "url": "https:\/\/thefilipinomen.com\/blog\/should-you-still-go-home-for-undas-if",
    "language": "en-PH",
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        "title": "Should You Still Go Home For Undas If You Cannot Afford It— Everyday manhood",
        "description": "Go home for Undas if the trip does not create a new utang. Presence at the grave matters. A borrowed bus ticket that wrecks November does not.",
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    "summary": "Go home for Undas if the trip does not create a new utang. Presence at the grave matters. A borrowed bus ticket that wrecks November does not.",
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    "content_text": "You should still go home for Undas if you can travel without borrowing next month's rice. If you cannot, a call, a mass intention, and honesty beat a heroic debt. The province pulls. The cemetery pulls. The family group chat pulls. Money does not care about the calendar of the dead. What does going home actually cost? Fare, pasalubong expected as tribute, missed shifts, the envelope you will be asked for. Count all of it, not just the ticket. What if they say you forgot your dead? You can remember without a bus. Light a candle where you are. Send what you can. Do not let guilt sell you a 5-6. What if you can go but only barely? Go simple. No flex. No leaking extra days. Come back able to work Monday. Related reading: Should You Still Send Padala If You Are Barely Surviving. Frequently asked questions Is skipping Undas unfilial?Unfilial is abandoning the living to impress the gathering. The dead do not need your utang. What do you tell the children?The truth sized for them: we remember Lolo this way this year. Ritual can travel.",
    "layout": null,
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    "category": "Pera & Pressure",
    "published_at": "2026-09-14 13:50:00",
    "updated_at": "2026-09-12 17:35:26",
    "site_name": "The Filipino Men"
}