ISSUED DAILY SINCE NOBODY ASKED
DAILY DEMOTIVATION
A fresh disappointment every morning. Like the news, but more honest.
You negotiated your broadband bill down by $3 a month.
The call took 94 minutes. You break even in 2031. They put it back up in 2027.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Doom spending is buying a heated eye mask because the news was bad. The…
- Underconsumption core is a beautiful aesthetic. It's what the last week of the month…
- Loud budgeting is telling everyone you can't afford brunch. Quiet budgeting is going anyway,…
- You moneymaxxed so hard this month you earned $4.80 in cashback. It cost three…
- Ghostlighting is when someone disappears for eight weeks and comes back with "you've been…
- Wildflowering means letting the relationship grow naturally, with no timeline. It has the growth…
- Clear-coding means stating your intentions up front. Hers was "I have a hard stop…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 444
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