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TUESDAY, 7 MARCH 2006
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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- The weekend is two days long. Monday is nine emotional days long, and you're…
- Underconsumption core is a beautiful aesthetic. It's what the last week of the month…
- You said "this is my year". You've said it since 2019. The years have…
- It's not a career ladder. It's a hamster wheel. The hamster has a LinkedIn…
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