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WEDNESDAY, 2 AUGUST 1995
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
- Your back now goes out when you sneeze. It goes out more than you…
- You "don't believe in labels". You believe in being kept as an option.
- Somebody, somewhere, is checking their phone hoping it's you. It's a debt collector.
- You have 47 tabs open. Three are jobs you'll never apply for, one's a…
- He vanished for five months, then texted "haha so true" like he'd just popped…
- Your thirties are your twenties with consequences. The hangover lasts until Wednesday and reports…
- Things will look better in the morning. No. They'll just be better lit.
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