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FRIDAY, 6 OCTOBER 2000
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
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- Scale your business. Currently it's you, a laptop, and your mum, who bought one…
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- Your toddler has stronger opinions about sock seams than you've had about anything since…
- Unlimited holiday is a lovely policy. The company did the maths on your guilt,…
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