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THURSDAY, 30 OCTOBER 1986
You moneymaxxed so hard this month you earned $4.80 in cashback.
It cost three new cards and a Sunday. You get roughly 4,000 Sundays. That was one.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your financial advisor is a spreadsheet you opened once in January. It's been screaming…
- Loud budgeting is telling everyone you can't afford brunch. Quiet budgeting is going anyway,…
- Disrupt the industry. The industry will disrupt you back, then buy your logo for…
- A tidy playroom lasts exactly as long as it takes to photograph. The photo…
- Work smarter, not harder. You've chosen neither, and HR has a folder.
- You swore you'd never sound like your parents. You just said "because I said…
- Your desk plant is the only thing in the office still growing. When you…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
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