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WEDNESDAY, 20 DECEMBER 2023
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world.
Your overdraft found it first. It's been compounding you since 2017.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your banking app pauses slightly before opening. It's deciding how to tell you.
- A tidy playroom lasts exactly as long as it takes to photograph. The photo…
- Doom spending is buying a heated eye mask because the news was bad. The…
- A good night out now means home by ten. Nobody had to come and…
- There's no I in team. There are two in "invoice still unpaid". And one…
- Clear-coding means stating your intentions up front. Hers was "I have a hard stop…
- Micro-dating is a thirty-minute coffee to see if there's a spark. There wasn't. She…
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