ISSUED DAILY SINCE NOBODY ASKED
DAILY DEMOTIVATION
A fresh disappointment every morning. Like the news, but more honest.
Being a parent means eating cold crusts standing up and calling it dinner.
You'll eat standing up for eighteen years. Then sit down and forget how.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Somebody, somewhere, is checking their phone hoping it's you. It's a debt collector.
- You don't have a spending problem. You have an income problem, and it's terminal.
- Your complaint has been escalated. It is now ignored by someone more senior.
- Fortnite was free to play. It was not free to stop.
- Don't settle. Your standards already have. They didn't tell you.
- Your financial advisor is a spreadsheet you opened once in January. It's been screaming…
- Your Sunday-night plan for Monday was ambitious. Monday read it, laughed, and forwarded it…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 445
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