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TUESDAY, 1 MARCH 1977
Doom spending is buying a heated eye mask because the news was bad.
The news is still bad. Your eyes are warmer. So is your overdraft.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- The best time to start saving was twenty years ago. The second-best time was…
- Your financial advisor is a spreadsheet you opened once in January. It's been screaming…
- "Let's take this offline" means "let's never speak of this again." That's also the…
- Age is just a number. So is your cholesterol, and it's climbing faster than…
- Mistakes were made. The Notes app has never once said by whom.
- Inside every older person is a younger person. The younger person is furious about…
- Mistakes were made. Nobody made them. They just happened, like weather.
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Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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