Let’s Get Tattoos

The Traumatized Budget
4 min readOct 16, 2023

And other thoughts about turning 60

Scene from We’re the Millers where the dim boyfriend reveals his prominent, misspelled tattoo, “No Regrats.”
Iconic reveal from the movie “We’re the Millers”

To the surprise of absolutely no one, I turned sixty last month. Adding to the intrigue of the occasion, I remain firmly up to my ears in Debt and Regret™.

It’s a funny thing about these decade markers. Even though the calendar is not faster or slower than at any other time, there’s some sense of burden or lift — or both — at the turn of a decade. Like calendars, clocks…

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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.