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TUESDAY, 3 JUNE 2003
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
- Every parent has a favourite child. It's whichever one isn't currently talking.
- "We should get dinner sometime" is a beautiful promise. One of you will die…
- You're ageing like a fine wine. Expensive, slightly sour, best kept in the dark,…
- Treat yourself, they said. You did. Four times before lunch. Your pension felt every…
- Your gym membership is the most expensive guilt you've ever bought. It renews automatically.…
- You manifested your dream job. The universe received the request, checked your CV and…
- You got a houseplant to "take care of something". It died. Even the plant…
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