Caught Being Good: A Cautionary Tale

The Traumatized Budget
2 min readNov 5, 2023

October Financial Check-In

No, you’re feeling smug. Photo by Jennifer Uppendahl on Unsplash

No one is more surprised than me to find that last month we actually climbed out of debt. A lot.

Now I worry that I won’t have a leg to stand on when, once again, I stand in the kitchen warning my family that the Financial End Is Nigh, and we’d better cut up the credit cards and subsist on beans until 2024.

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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.