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The Art of Spending Money: What Does It Mean to Say “I Made It”?
The strange, deflating feeling of finally getting what you spent years wanting. On the difference between wanting something because it brings joy and wanting it because owning it makes you feel successful.
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You Only Live Once. Unfortunately, the Credit Card Bill Does Too.
Booking a holiday is pure dopamine. Paying for it is a different emotion entirely. On YOLO travel spending and the credit card bill that always, always remembers.
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AI Anxiety and the Fantasy of Early Retirement: A Midlife Career Reckoning
I’m scared AI will take my job. I also fantasize about not having one. A very stable midlife career reckoning.
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Monsoon, Munchies, and My Midlife Financial Crisis
Samosas, tax deadlines, and what a midlife money panic actually looks like from the inside.
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Adjusted for Inflation: Fighting With Your Spouse About Money
One expensive holiday booking, one furious husband, and what money arguments in a marriage are really about.
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Shopping Addiction: What 400 Square Feet of Stuff Taught Me
A friend’s studio packed to the ceiling, and the buying pattern I started noticing in everyone, myself included.
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Two Meals Out for $15 in Downtown San Francisco
How to eat out twice in one of the most expensive cities in America without spending a small fortune.
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Financially Independent by 35: How I Actually Did It
Debt free, two houses nearly paid off, and the obsessive saving habit that got me there before 35.
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