This Aha! Moment Can Save Your Life

The Traumatized Budget
6 min readDec 27, 2018

Or, how a leaky roof is leading me to financial security

Photo of colorful flying umbrellas by Adrianna Calvo from Pexels

Our rainy day came in September. We weren’t ready.

It started with a dime-sized damp patch in our ceiling on an ordinary day in the wettest year our region has ever seen. It ended several weeks later with an estimate for a $50,000 roof replacement.

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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.