2023: We Promise This Is Normal

The Traumatized Budget
8 min readDec 27, 2023

Possibly my last column under this name on Medium. Or Not.

One thing I’ve learned over the years, and especially since tracking my finances, is that I am really bad at math.

Not the ordinary math of adding and subtracting, but the smart math of moving assumptions around with your numbers. Accounting math. Finance. All that.

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The Traumatized Budget

I’m a 60 (😱)-something bohemian with a mountain of debt and regrets. Can I dig out before it’s all over? I brake for poets.