Cheap Date: Eat Your Weeds

The Traumatized Budget
2 min readAug 29, 2023

It’s Purslane season, darlings

Context is everything. Chances are, if you saw this succulent plant packaged up in the cool refrigerated transepts of your gourmet grocery store, you’d be all curious to pay and try.

But if you’re yanking it from your own garden, familiarity breeds contempt.

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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.