October Check-in: A Frightful Month

The Traumatized Budget
5 min readNov 3, 2019

Haunted by my bad decisions, I carry on in the dark.

My black cat Huginn sitting on my long, colorful paper chain of debt.
I hope my cat Huginn is good luck; he’s sitting on my debt.

As a month that was not supposed to suck, but then did, I guess October was okay. My bouyant relief in September notwithstanding, we were hit hard by two expenses: a surgery for someone in our family, and the replacement of tires and realignment for our car. All of it went on credit cards; couldn’t be helped. For while we are far better off this

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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.