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WEDNESDAY, 29 JANUARY 1964
Loud budgeting is telling everyone you can't afford brunch.
Quiet budgeting is going anyway, checking your balance in the car and moving retirement to 79.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Find your purpose. It's in the drawer with the takeaway menus and a key…
- You moneymaxxed so hard this month you earned $4.80 in cashback. It cost three…
- Your toddler has stronger opinions about sock seams than you've had about anything since…
- Every summit sends a very strong signal. The planet keeps not receiving it.
- Your gym membership is the most expensive guilt you've ever bought. It renews automatically.…
- You said you're "so busy" this week. Your screen time says eleven hours a…
- Parenting is ten percent love and ninety percent asking where the other shoe is.…
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